Religious Conversion An African Perspective

Author : Brendan Carmody
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789982241168

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Religious Conversion: An African Perspective by Brendan Carmody Pdf

Religious Conversion: An African Perspective includes a selection of key texts which are not easily accessible elsewhere. Most of the chapters discuss the long-standing thesis of Robin Horton who argues that religious change results from social transformation. The contributors provide different perspectives on what remains an ongoing provocative, though inconclusive debate. The book has chapters on conversion in Africa from such authorities as Robin Horton, Humphrey Fisher, and Richard Gray. It also contains chapters on Zambia by Elizaebeth Colson, Brendan Carmody, Austin Cheyeka, Felix Phiri and W Van Binsbergen. This collection of chapters provides an introduction to the discussion surrounding the query: Did the Christian and Muslim messages bring something fundamentally new to the African religious horizon? What has indigenisation meant? What is the role of traditional religion?

Author : Brendan Patrick Carmody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian converts
ISBN : IND:30000079283085

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African Conversion by Brendan Patrick Carmody Pdf

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520912564

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Conversion to Christianity by Robert W. Hefner Pdf

One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These essays explore the phenomenon of Christian conversion from this world-building perspective. Combining rich case studies with original theoretical insights, this work challenges sociologists, anthropologists and historians of religion to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.

Author : Jason Bruner,David Dmitri Hurlbut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039430351

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Religious Conversion in Africa by Jason Bruner,David Dmitri Hurlbut Pdf

This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars, including historians of pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary Africa, along with anthropologists, who develop fresh arguments and reassessments of religious, cultural, and social change pertaining to Africa. The result is a fascinating array of research that offers critical, creative, and constructive analyses of religious change on the African continent, from the medieval period to the present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004412255

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Faith in African Lived Christianity by Anonim Pdf

Faith in African Lived Christianity – Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives offers a comprehensive, empirically rich and interdisciplinary approach to the study of faith in African Christianity. The book brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith and religious experiences shape the understanding of social life in Africa. The volume is a collection of chapters by prominent Africanist theologians, anthropologists and social scientists, who take people’s faith as their starting point and analyze it in a contextually sensitive way. It covers discussions of positionality in the study of African Christianity, interdisciplinary methods and approaches and a number of case studies on political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality.

Author : Themba Sono
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UCAL:B4185426

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Rationality and Techniques of African Conversion by Christian Missionaries by Themba Sono Pdf

Author : Rudolf K. Gaisie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725252875

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Jesus Christ as Logos Incarnate and Resurrected Nana (Ancestor) by Rudolf K. Gaisie Pdf

This book seeks to demonstrate the significance of Ancestor Christology in African Christianity for christological developments in World Christianity. Ancestor Christology has developed in the process of an African conversion story of appropriating the mystery of Christ (Eph 3:4) in the category of ancestors. Logos Christology in early Christian history developed as an intricate byproduct in the conversion process of turning Hellenistic ideas towards the direction of Christ (A. F. Walls). Hellenistic Christian writers and modern African Christian writers thus share some things in common and when their efforts are examined within the conversion process framework there are discernible modes of engagement. The mode of Logos Christology that one finds in Origen, for example, is an innovative application of the understanding of Jesus Christ as Logos (incarnate); a new key but not discontinuous with the Johannine suggestive mode or the clarificatory mode of Justin Martyr. African Ancestor Christology is at the threshold of an innovative mode and the argument this book makes is that this strand of African Christology should be pursued in the indigenous languages aided by respective translated Bibles; a suggested way is a Logos-Ancestor (Nanasɛm) discourse in Akan Christianity.

Author : Andrew Buckser,Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742517780

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The Anthropology of Religious Conversion by Andrew Buckser,Stephen D. Glazier Pdf

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Author : Brendan P. Carmody
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787565616

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The Emergence of Teacher Education in Zambia by Brendan P. Carmody Pdf

This book offers a detailed history of the development of teacher education in Zambia. Also analysed is the nature of education offered at different times and how the teacher and his/her education reflect this, arguing the need for a fundamentally new philosophy of education and a mode of teacher formation in line with it.

Author : Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199713547

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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion by Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.

Author : Jack Pryor Chalk
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781907713699

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Making Disciples in Africa by Jack Pryor Chalk Pdf

With two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa professing to be Christian it should be a concern to all Christians that the biblical worldview has had little impact on the shaping of contemporary African culture. In this book Jack Chalk analyses the belief systems of the worldviews that are based on Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The analysis, conclusion and recommendations are presented with the view to helping the church in Africa deal with syncretism and the effect it has on the beliefs and practices of its members.

Author : Rodney L. Reed,David K. Ngaruiya
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839739293

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Salvation in African Christianity by Rodney L. Reed,David K. Ngaruiya Pdf

“What must I do to be saved?” That question, raised in the book of Acts by the Philippian jailer, is a question for the ages. Yet what, even, does it mean to be saved? Is salvation for this life or the next? Is it purely spiritual or does it have physical and material implications? Can salvation be lost? Do we determine who will be saved or does God? What role does Christ play in salvation? Such are the seemingly unending questions soteriology strives to answer. In this eighth volume from the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, African theologians articulate their understanding of salvation – and its widespread implications for life and practice – in conversation with Scripture and the rich diversity of an African cultural context. Salvation is examined from historical, philosophical, and theological lenses, and scholars address topics as wide-ranging as conversion, ethnicity, fertility, poverty, prosperity, the Trinity, exclusivism, African Pentecostalism, rural community, eschatology, wholeness, and atonement. It is a powerful exploration of the holistic nature of salvation as articulated in Scripture and understood by the African church.

Author : Richard J. Gehman
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9966253548

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African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective by Richard J. Gehman Pdf

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199910922

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A History of Christian Conversion by David W. Kling Pdf

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Author : Lewis Ray Rambo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300065159

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Understanding Religious Conversion by Lewis Ray Rambo Pdf

Looking at a wide variety of religions, this work offers an exploration of religious conversion. The phenomena is approached from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, theology and anthropology.