Schism and Renewal in Africa
Author : David B. Barrett
Publisher : Nairobi : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Schism and renewal in Africa
Author : David Brian Barrett
Publisher :
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 1968
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Modernizing Racial Domination
Author : Heribert Adam
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520018235
Book Description
Apartheid Raciald̈iscrimination Discrimination Racer̈elations Politics SouthÄfrica.
From Nairobi to the World: David B. Barrett and the Re-imagining of World Christianity
Author : Gina A. Zurlo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004541047
Book Description
In 1982, David B. Barrett released his 1,000-page World Christian Encyclopedia, which presented a comprehensive quantitative assessment of World Christianity for the first time. This book is the first historical project to analyze Barrett’s archival materials, which shed light not only on the production of the Encyclopedia, but more importantly, on the development of World Christianity as a discipline and the importance of both African Christianity and quantitative perspectives in its history. This book captures innovations at the intersection of World Christianity, mission studies, and the sociology of religion – the kind of interdisciplinary research that makes World Christianity studies unique.
Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century
Author : Timothy Yates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521565073
Book Description
Offering an essential historical overview of the chief developments in Christian mission, this should become a standard textbook.
The Origins and Development of African Theology
Author : Gwinyai H. Muzorewa
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2000-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579103391
Book Description
The Origins and Development of African theology is a very informative survey of African theology over approximately the last twenty years. The author is widely read on the subject, as far as English publications go, and highlights the salient issues with balanced objectivity. The literature, both as discussed in the substance of the book and in the bibliography, is also a valuable source for further study of African theology. John Mbiti, author of Prayers of African Religion
Pentecostalism in Africa
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004281878
Book Description
Within recent decades Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity has moved from an initially peripheral position to become a force to be reckoned with within Africa’s religious landscape. Bringing together prominent Africanist scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this book offers a comprehensive and multifaceted treatment of the ways in which Pentecostal-Charismatic movements have shaped the orientations of African Christianity and extended their influence into other spheres of post-colonial societies such as politics, developmental work and popular entertainment. Among other things, the chapters of the book show how Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity responds to social and cultural concerns of Africans, and how its growth and increasingly assertive presence in public life have facilitated new kinds of social positioning and claims to political power.
African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1350271969
Book Description
Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), this book shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa. "Sacred words” are taken to mean holy texts as in divination, the Quran and the Bible. Toyin Falola evaluates how religious leaders engage with sacred words, both orals and texts, engendering practices that reveal the expression of religious beliefs, the impact of those beliefs, and the knowledge contained in them. Attention is given to the key ideas in the words chosen by religious leaders, and how they form a continuous knowledge system, impacting the politics of managing society and people.
Critiques of Christianity in African Literature
Author : Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9789966465801
Book Description
Towards a Christian Theology of African Ancestors
Author : Thomas Ochieng Otanga
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666733067
Book Description
This book examines the similarities and relationship between Christian saints and African ancestors. Further, it analyzes the deep cultural roots of African peoples and the ancestral frame as a point of departure for developing an indigenous African theology. Questions dealt with include: Does the conversion of Africans to Christianity require a break with their African cultural heritage? Who is an African ancestor? Is syncretism a good thing for an African Christian? What contribution can the African church make to the universal church? The author argues that rather than being antithetical to formal Christianity, an African Christian theology of ancestors is an example of how an indigenous African tradition can best express Christianity as well as make considerable impact on world Christianity.
