The Dynamics And Contradictions Of Evangelisation In Africa

Author : Peter Acho Awoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Peter Acho Awoh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Evangelistic work
ISBN : OCLC:715154247

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

Author : Peter Awoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956728688

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The Residue of the Western Missionary in the Southern Cameroons by Peter Awoh Pdf

This book is the fascinating study of Christian enclaves in the Southern Cameroons of the colonial era. The Christian enclaves came into being with absolute spontaneity as a modus vivendi. Oblivious of the danger in store both colonial governments and traditional authorities provided the conditions in which these Christian villages took root and flourished. However what had taken root in the territory as a self-protection mechanism, soon unleashed its lethal, enticing tentacles luring both the wives of royals and commoners into their bosom. This disruptive influence of Christian villages threatened the survival of ethnic groups, arousing the rancour of traditional authorities and civil administrators. In many ways the Christian enclaves inhibited the potential of colonial governments to administer the territory. These states within a state propagated by the missionary in the most insidious and perfidious of all manners sowed within their own bosom the seed of self-destruction. The whole issue of runaway wives of royals and commoners alike who took refuge in the Christian villages troubled both the colonial and traditional authorities. By offering a safe haven to these runaway wives and welcoming women who were outside the traditional male authority in a tribal setup, the missionaries began sowing within the Christian communities the seeds of their own self destruction. Records of wives of Fons and commoners escaping into these enclaves, eloping with a man and returning pregnant remained the regular subject of several colonial intelligence reports. Highhanded methods by missionaries in these villages brought both the missionaries and their work into disrepute. In less than a quarter of a century these enclaves had lost the war of attrition waged by colonial and traditional authorities. Worn out by endless strife and dissension within and without and forced by contingency, what had been conceived to be ideal Christian communities with snowballing effects, saw its premature demise.

Author : Linus Asong
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9789956579501

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Laughing Store by Linus Asong Pdf

Laughing Store is just what we need in times of troubles and uncertainties such as these. A book of humour from an acclaimed master of laughter, it lifts our hearts and raises our spirits. Jokes that touch about every domain of existence from sex to religion, from births to deaths, from politics to the beer parlour, from the courtroom to the hospital. And most important of all, conceived in the supremely original Cameroonian flavour of jokes.

Author : Laurenti Magesa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123178381

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Rethinking Mission by Laurenti Magesa Pdf

Author : Douglas Montagu Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436762197

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Africa Waiting: Or the Problem of Africa's Evangelization (1903) by Douglas Montagu Thornton Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Caroline Jeannerat,Éric Morier-Genoud,Didier Péclard
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825897963

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Embroiled by Caroline Jeannerat,Éric Morier-Genoud,Didier Péclard Pdf

Apartheid posed profound challenges to the conceptions of humanity and development that dominated the world stage after World War II. Embroiled analyzes the manner in which international religious organizations dealt with the formulation and implementation of apartheid. The book studies this through an examination of the Swiss Mission in South Africa (SMSA), an institution that acted in South Africa, Switzerland, and the international ecumenical community. As a socially embedded institution, the SMSA mirrored divisions present within Swiss and South African societies on the issue of apartheid. *** Embroiled brings out the complex, even turbulent, nature of a missionary society: at once political intermediary, spiritual guide and non-government organisation. Caught between different communities and discrete continents, missionaries discussed and debated their role in South Africa and attempted, however fitfully, to respond to the changes that swept through the country, particularly as opposing nationalisms fought to seize hold of it. ~ From the Preface (Series: Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses - Vol. 9)

Author : Daniel M. Muia,James E. Otiende
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121844687

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Introduction to Development Studies for Africa by Daniel M. Muia,James E. Otiende Pdf

Author : Marialuisa Lucia Sergio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000849066

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How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization by Marialuisa Lucia Sergio Pdf

By paying attention to Algerian Independence, this book reconstructs the action of the Catholic Church regarding the issues of the spread of Islam in colonies, to Arab nationalism, Marxist propaganda in non-European countries, and the effects of the Algerian crisis upon the French political system. The complex relations between the Holy See and France, as well as those between the Vatican and the Episcopates and clergy of the overseas territories, are vital aspects of decolonisation, a topic which, to date, has been overlooked by historiography because of the impossibility of accessing documents relating to the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) held in the Vatican archives. The opening in March 2020 of the archives of Pius XII, the Pope who had succeeded in imposing the strategic role of the Holy See upon the international scene, has made a vast amount of unpublished documentary material available to scholars. This book is useful for all students and scholars interested in the Cold War, the history of contemporary Europe, the history of the Church, postcolonial studies, and religious phenomenon in post-World War II Europe.

Author : Oseni Ogunu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131932274

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1994-2003 by Oseni Ogunu Pdf

Author : Meredith Terretta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956728053

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Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 by Meredith Terretta Pdf

Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalists' petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest collections of political documents written by African women during the decolonization era, as well as archival research and oral interviews, this work shows how UDEFEC transcended ethnic, class, education and social divides, and popularized nationalism in both urban and rural areas through the Trust Territories of the Cameroons under French and British administration. Foregrounding issues such as economic autonomy and biological and agricultural fertility, UDEFEC politics wove anti-imperial democracy and notions of universal human rights into locally rooted political cultures and histories. UDEFEC's history sheds light on the essential components of women's successful political mobilization in Africa, and contributes to the discussion of women's involvement in nationalist movements in formerly colonized territories.

Author : Michael Ifeanyinachukwu Mozia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : IND:30000043735046

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New Evangelisation and Christian Moral Theology by Michael Ifeanyinachukwu Mozia Pdf

Author : Nfi, Joseph Lon
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956791675

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The Reunification Debate in British Southern Cameroons by Nfi, Joseph Lon Pdf

This book is a succinct account of the role immigrants from French Cameroon played in the Reunification politics in the Southern Cameroons. The study reveals that these "strangers" organised themselves in Pressure Groups in order to fight for equal opportunities with the indigenes and when such opportunities were not coming, they initiated the Reunification Idea, propagated it and converted many reluctant Southern Cameroonians. They militated in pro-reunification political parties such as the KNC, KNDP, UPC and OK and successfully shifted the reunification idea from the periphery to the centre of Southern Cameroons decolonisation politics. The immigrants convinced the UN through petitions and reunification which was the most unpopular option for independence became one of the two alternatives at the 1961 plebiscite. They and the reluctant KNDP campaigned and voted for it. The Reunification of Cameroon was therefore the handiwork of French Cameroon immigrants.

Author : Walter Gam Nkwi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956578924

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Sons and Daughters of the Soil by Walter Gam Nkwi Pdf

This book makes a rare and original contribution on the history of little documented internal land conflicts and boundary misunderstandings in Cameroon, where attention has tended to focus too narrowly on international boundary conflicts such as that between Cameroon and Nigeria. The study is of the Bamenda Grassfields, the region most plagued by land and boundary conflicts in the country. Despite claims of common descent and cultural similarities by most communities in the region, relations have been tested and dominated by recurrent land and boundary conflicts since the middle of the 20th Century. Nkwi takes us through these contradictions, as he draws empirically and in general on his rich historical and ethnographic knowledge of the tensions and conflicts over land and boundaries in the region to situate and understand the conflicts between Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh - the epicenter of land and boundary - from c.1950s - 2009. Little if any scholarly attention has focused on this all important issue, its pernicious effects on the region notwithstanding. This book takes a bold step in the direction of the social history of land and boundary conflicts in Cameroon, and demonstrates that there is much of scholarly interest in understanding the centrality of land and boundaries in the configuration and contestation of human relations. In his innovative and stimulating blend of history and ethnography, Nkwi points to exciting new directions of paying closer attention to relationships informed by consciousness on and around land and boundaries.

Author : Maia Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139435208

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Priests, Witches and Power by Maia Green Pdf

In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local populations and indigenous clergy. Paradoxically, while local practices around the constitution of kinship and personhood remain defiantly free of Christian elements, they inform a popular Christianity experienced as a system of substances and practices. This book offers a challenge to idealist and interpretative accounts of African participation in twentieth-century religious forms, and argues for a politically grounded analysis of historical processes. It will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies; particularly those interested in religion and kinship.