Religious Conversion In Africa

Author : Brendan Carmody
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Jason Bruner,David Dmitri Hurlbut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039430343

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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 : Brendan Patrick Carmody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian converts
ISBN : IND:30000079283085

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African Conversion by Brendan Patrick Carmody Pdf

Author : Jason Bruner,David Dmitri Hurlbut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781469618722

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The Art of Conversion by Cécile Fromont Pdf

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.

Author : Cyril Chukwunonyerem Okorọcha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014168432

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The Meaning of Religious Conversion in Africa by Cyril Chukwunonyerem Okorọcha Pdf

Author : Mara A. Leichtman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253016058

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Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa by Mara A. Leichtman Pdf

Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each group is cosmopolitan in its own way. Leichtman provides new insights into the everyday lives of Shi'i Muslims in Africa and the dynamics of local and global Islam. She explores the influence of Hizbullah and Islamic reformist movements, and offers a corrective to prevailing views of Sunni-Shi'i hostility, demonstrating that religious coexistence is possible in a context such as Senegal.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Peter Acho Awoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956578214

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The Dynamics and Contradictions of Evangelisation in Africa by Peter Acho Awoh Pdf

This book critically discusses missionary Christianity and colonization in Africa as twin enterprises with a common ambition. While the colonialist set out to invest capital and reap profit, the missionary desire was to tend and turn African souls from damnation. It was this desire that drove the missionaries into the interior, propelled by the belief that no land was too remote to escape their attention and vigilance. It equally kept missionary zeal buoyant. The clarification of the concept of salvation within the Roman Catholic Church during the Vatican II Council set in motion the current lethargy that has in some places crippled the mission itself. In retrospect, one can begin to wonder why Africans became Christians. What reasons motivated the early adherents to cling to this foreign religion? Were there some internal deficiencies in African traditional religions, which the Africans hoped to remedy by joining the new religion? Or was it just part of the wholesale flirting with whatever was foreign and perceived to be modern? What baits were used by the missionaries to entice Africans? Christianity posed a danger to many of the time-honoured answers to African problems. These were the 'values' Africans converting to Christianity were expected to abandon. Why have Christians continually returned to their abandoned roots in time of crisis? This moving, well argued, richly documented and empirically substantiated study concludes by cautioning against the stubborn drive at radical conversion to Christianity with scant regard to the imperatives of enculturation.

Author : Ulrich Luig
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783753417349

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Conversion as a Social Process by Ulrich Luig Pdf

Conversion as a Social Process presents a detailed and multi-facetted account of the genesis of an African mission church in Southern Zambia. Its main theme is the transformation of European missionary Christianity into an important medium for Africans to negotiate creatively the challenges of the modern world. The first part of this case study scrutinizes the contextual conditions, and the consequences, of the translation process of the European missionary message into the forms of African culture and modes of thought. The second part analyses the developments of post-colonial and post-missionary African Christianity in a rural setting. It argues that Christian ethics and world view offer new means of self-identification in a complex world. Drawing on local oral sources, archival material and ethnographic literature the book represents a new genre of intercultural Church history.

Author : John Chitakure
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498244190

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African Traditional Religion Encounters Christianity by John Chitakure Pdf

Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation. In fact, God uses people's environment and culture to communicate his will. There is no single religion that can claim to have the exclusive possession of God's revelation, for God is too immense to be confined within one faith. Hence, it was erroneous, blasphemous, and misleading for some of the early Christian missionaries to Africa to claim that they had brought God to Africa, a mentality that implied the non-existence of God in Africa before their arrival. Of course, God was already in Africa, but the missionaries either failed to discern his presence or just disregarded the traces of his existence. This book explores the religious beliefs, practices, and values of the indigenous people of Africa at the time of the early missionaries' arrival, with particular reference to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. It also evaluates the extent of the missionarie's successes and challenges in converting Africans to Christianity. It finally surveys how African Christians have remained attached to the indigenous religious beliefs that used to provide answers to their existential questions.

Author : Jack Pryor Chalk
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Christopher Lamb,M. Darroll Bryant
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826437136

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Religious Conversion by Christopher Lamb,M. Darroll Bryant Pdf

Conversion has been an important issue for most of the universal religions - those usually associated with a founder, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism - which have a mission to spread their message. Other religions have been less concerned with conversion except in so far as it has been a negative force for them to confront. This study explores how conversion has been understood by different religions during different eras, and includes a survey of the textual, legal, ritual, historic and experiential dimensions of the phenomenon of conversion.

Author : Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Cyril U. Orji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015077627233

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Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa by Cyril U. Orji Pdf

Africa has often been perceived as a confluence of tension and conflict and the recent upheavals in Sub-Saharan Africa have done little to help this perception. The waves of ethnic and religious violence continue to drain the continent of its material and human resources, leading to a state of cumulative decline. Intolerance and tribal and inter-ethnic conflict, seem commonplace. Muslim-Christian relations in some countries are currently at their lowest ebb. The author of this study, Cyril Orji, draws on Canadian Jesuit theologian, Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) to offer an analysis of bias that addresses a root cause of conflict in the human person and society. According to Orji, Lonergan's analysis can contribute to a deeper understanding of ethnic and religious conflict in Africa and can offer resources for overcoming them.