Wealth Health And Hope In African Christian Religion

Author : Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498561280

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Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion by Stan Chu Ilo Pdf

Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty, wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498244886

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Love, Joy, and Sex by Stan Chu Ilo Pdf

There is no papal document that has generated as much interest, controversy, and debate in recent times as Pope Francis's Amoris Laetitia. This document, which came out of two very divisive synods of Catholic bishops and leaders in Rome in 2014 and 2015, will probably be the most discussed document ever produced by a pope in modern Catholicism on marriage and family life. This volume has gathered seminal commentaries on Amoris Laetitia by African Catholic theologians, social scientists, and pastoral workers. They offer African theological and pastoral responses to the principles and practices proposed by Pope Francis and the Synod on the family on such contested issues as same-sex relations, divorce and remarriage, and reception and denial of Holy Communion in the church, among other divisive issues. These important essays and commentaries show the strengths and weaknesses of this papal commentary and point out the missing link in the global conversation on marriage, family, and same-sex relations. Their argument for the inclusion of African perspectives and moral traditions in the search for a third way in finding an inclusive and integrated pastoral art of accompaniment is very compelling. The authors here also call for the inclusion of Africa's own unique challenges--like polygamy, childless marriages, and the impact of migration, civil conflict, diseases, ecological and population crises, and the rights of African women--in the global discussion on marriage and family life. They also challenge uncritical cliches in world Christianity that Africa's opposition to same-sex marriages (or Western propaganda about population or birth control and contraception) are conservative, while showing diverse African conversations on these topics in the search for abundant life on this beautiful continent.

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331499

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West African Christianity by Lamin Sanneh Pdf

Author : George Kinoti
Publisher : Aisred
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004029024

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Hope for Africa and what the Christian Can Do by George Kinoti Pdf

Author : David Garbin,Simon Coleman,Gareth Millington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350152601

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Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa by David Garbin,Simon Coleman,Gareth Millington Pdf

How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa.

Author : Ilo, Stan Chu
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339365

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Handbook of African Catholicism by Ilo, Stan Chu Pdf

"A disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today by engaging some of the most pressing and pertinent issues, topics, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism"--

Author : Matthew Ryan Robinson,Inja Inderst
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374070305

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What Does Theology Do, Actually? by Matthew Ryan Robinson,Inja Inderst Pdf

»What Does Theology Do, Actually? Observing Theology and the Transcultural« is to be the first in a series of 5 books, each presented under the same question – »What Does Theology Do, Actually?«, with vols. 2–5 focusing on one of the theological subdisciplines. This first volume proceeds from the observation of a need for a highly inflected »trans-cultural«, and not simply »inter-cultural«, set of perspectives in theological work and training. The revolution brought about across the humanities disciplines through globalization and the recognition of »multiple modernities« has introduced a diversity of overlapping cultural content and multiple cultural and religious belongings not only into academic work in the humanities and social sciences, but into the Christian churches as well.

Author : Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110618150

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International Handbook of Practical Theology by Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener Pdf

Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that religion, spirituality, lived religion on this side and beyond institutional communities refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious affairs collected from various cultures and religions. The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters include considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution', 'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents the main theoretical discourses that map the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, fifty-eight authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

Author : Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532650376

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Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and the Spirit in the World by Stan Chu Ilo Pdf

This volume's essays are an ecumenical ensemble of the best scholars and leading practitioners in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements from all four corners of the world. The contributors bring together various denominational perspectives and dialogue for understanding the present momentum of these Spirit movements in the world church. Their diverse methodologies transverse the traditional and new approaches to studying these movements. Pointing the way forward, the authors highlight some of the lessons learned in their scholarly engagement with Spirit movements. These lessons offer significant insight and viewpoints for the academy in the historical analysis of these movements. They also serve as a good guide for pastoral discernment and accompaniment for God's people in their daily lives, as well as for social ministries in the world church. This volume addresses questions of salvation and eschatology, health and healing, prosperity and poverty, suffering and death, fear and faith, despair and hope. Other topics include the conflict between charism and institution and the tension between cultic clericalism and the affirmation and use of the gifts and talents of lay members of Christ's faithful in the church.

Author : Marcus Moberg,Sofia Sjö
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351010597

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Digital Media, Young Adults and Religion by Marcus Moberg,Sofia Sjö Pdf

It has become increasingly clear that an adequate understanding of the contemporary processes of social, cultural, and religious change is contingent on an appreciation of the growing impact of social media. Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the global research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG), an international panel of contributors shed new light on the impact of social media and its associated technologies on young people’s religiosities, worldviews, and values. Case studies from China, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Peru, Poland, and Turkey are used to demonstrate how these developments are progressing, not just in the West, but across the world. This book is unique in that it presents a truly macroscopic perspective on trends in religion amongst young adults. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars working in religious studies, digital media, communication studies, sociology, cultural studies, theology and youth studies.

Author : Ross, Kenneth R.,Mulwafu, Wapulumuka O.
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789996060786

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Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi by Ross, Kenneth R.,Mulwafu, Wapulumuka O. Pdf

With the death of John McCracken in 2017, Malawi lost a pre-eminent historian. This book celebrates McCracken’s contribution to the study of Malawi’s history and seeks to build on his legacy. Part of his genius was that he identified themes that hold the key to understanding the history of Malawi in its broader perspective. The authors contributing to this volume address these themes, assessing the progress of historiography and setting an agenda for the further advance of historical studies. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and all who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Malawi’s past and present.

Author : Virginia Miller,The Most Rev’d. Sir David Moxon,The Rt. Rev’d. Prof. Stephen Pickard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030199975

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Leaning into the Spirit by Virginia Miller,The Most Rev’d. Sir David Moxon,The Rt. Rev’d. Prof. Stephen Pickard Pdf

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an “ecumenical winter,” affirms the view that we are actually moving into a “new ecumenical spring.” It offers new theological insights in the areas of Christology, Pneumatology and Trinitarian theology, and discusses developments in ecumenism in the USA, UK, Australia, India, and Africa, as well as in ecumenical institutions such as the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Anglican Roman Catholic Commission (ARCIC).

Author : Jennie Weiss Block,M. Therese Lysaught,Alexandre A. Martins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666765038

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A Prophet to the Peoples by Jennie Weiss Block,M. Therese Lysaught,Alexandre A. Martins Pdf

The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic theological ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. It advances the Journal of Moral Theology’s mission of fostering scholarship deeply rooted in traditions of inquiry about the moral life, engaged with contemporary issues, and exploring the interface of Catholic moral theology, philosophy, economics, political philosophy, psychology, and more. This series is sponsored in conjunction with the Catholic Theological Ethics and the World Church. The CTEWC recognizes the need to dialogue from and beyond local cultures and to interconnect within a world church. Its global network of scholars, practitioners, and activists fosters cross-cultural, interdisciplinary conversations—via conferences, symposia, and colloquia, both in-person and virtually—about critical issues in theological ethics, shaped by shared visions of hope.

Author : Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666799774

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African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality for Cosmic Flourishing by Stan Chu Ilo Pdf

This is the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice. The contributors to this important volume explore the common threats facing this earth our common home and the particular threats facing Africa because of our sick environment, unsustainable development practices, and the false narratives and programs of modernity in the African Motherland. Here, African environmentalists, theologians, and peace advocates in conversation with Pope Francis's Laudato Si', develop a roadmap for pastoral, local, and global education on ecological consciousness in order to bring about ecological conversion. African ecological wisdom is also offered as indispensable resources for recovering the intimate connection of all creatures and all peoples and as a praxis of solidarity for the poor, and our fragile earth.