The Ghanaian's image of the missionary
Author : Harris W. Mobley
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :
Author : Harris W. Mobley
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :
Author : H W Mobley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 1970-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900466579X
Author : Opoku Onyinah
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004397108
"Witchcraft" and exorcism have long been dominant features of life in African cultures. This unique book provides a thorough, field research-based description and analysis of a specifically Pentecostal Christian response to these phenomena within the Akan culture of Ghana. Anthropological studies generally claim that the ultimate goal of exorcism is modernisation. Using interdisciplinary studies with a theological focus, the author takes a different view, arguing that it is divinatory consultation or an inquiry into the sacred and the search for meaning that underlies the current "deliverance" ministry, where the focus is to identify and break down the so-called demonic forces by the power of God and to "deliver" people from their torment. The deliverance ministry is one attempt to contextualise the gospel for African people. However, preoccupation with demonisation and exorcistic practices is found to bring Christianity into tension with the Akan culture, family ties and other religions. In order to develop a properly safeguarded ministry of exorcism in an African context, the author examines contextualisation and suggests the integration into African Christianity of divinatory consultation, which has strong resonances with the biblical concept of prayer.
Author : Agbeti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004668667
Author : J Kofi Agbeti
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9789964912703
Author : Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802862810
Pentecostal scholars from four continents here offer constructive theological proposals focusing on the role of the Holy Spirit in diverse cultural and religious contexts. Typical Pentecostal topics Spirit-baptism, healing, and other charisms are interwoven with such themes as post-colonialism, religious plurality, racial diversity, and cultural heritage.
Author : Benjamin Bronnert Walker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0228011604
The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident that the field of global health – its practices, norms, and failures – has the power to shape the lives of billions. Global health perspectives on the role of religion, however, are strikingly limited. Uncovering the points where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century, focusing on Ghana, provides an opportunity to challenge narrow approaches. In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows that the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the turn of the twenty-first century. Walker surveys the establishment of colonial development projects in the twentieth century, with a focus on the period between 1940 and 1990. Crossing the colonial-postcolonial divide, analyzing local contexts in conjunction with the many layers of international organizations, and identifying surprisingly neglected streams of personnel and funding (particularly from Dutch and West German Catholics), this in-depth history offers new ways of conceptualizing global health. Patchworks of international humanitarian intervention, fragmented government services, local communities, and the actions of many foreign powers combined to create health services and the state in Ghana. Religion in Global Health and Development shows that religion and religious actors were critical to this process – socially, culturally, and politically.
Author : Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 3031271289
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.
Author : Robert A. Bickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136786163
Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies.
Author : Moses Asaah Awinongya
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3643903146
The life and nature of the Church are better understood in terms of a self-identity that relies on the language and cultural framework of the stakeholders. Since theological reflections do not take place in a vacuum, the socio-cultural context gains importance. The question is: How much culture can the Church, as a whole, accommodate without losing its universal character? With a focus on the West African country of Ghana, this book analyzes the potential trade-offs and conflicts between the Church and culture in a pluri-religious and multi-cultural society. Further, it shows the dangers of exclusion within the Church and offers possible solutions. (Series: Studien zur systematischen Theologie und Ethik - Vol. 64)