Religion And Faith In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Download Religion And Faith In Africa PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Religion And Faith In Africa book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Religion And Faith In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : A. E. Orobator
language : ar
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 2021-02-04
Religion And Faith In Africa written by A. E. Orobator and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with RELIGION categories.
Drawn from his "Duffy Lectures delivered at Boston College, Orobator examines the living interplay between African religion, Christianity, and Islam in Africa, and argues that the religious experience and spiritual imagination of Africa offers a genius capable of renewing the global community of believers.
Religion And Development In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ezra Chitando
language : en
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Release Date : 2020-06-09
Religion And Development In Africa written by Ezra Chitando and has been published by University of Bamberg Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-09 with Religion categories.
"What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is "developed", while another community/ country is "under-developed"? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa's own history, including the memory of marginalisation, slavery and exploitation by global powers ensures that virtually every discussion on development is characterised by a lot of emotions and conflicting views. In this volume scholars from various African countries and many different religions and denominations contribute to this debate."--
Faith In African Lived Christianity
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Faith In African Lived Christianity written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Religion categories.
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.
The Language Of Faith In Southern Africa Spirit World Power Community Holism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hermen Kroesbergen
language : en
Publisher: AOSIS
Release Date : 2019-12-12
The Language Of Faith In Southern Africa Spirit World Power Community Holism written by Hermen Kroesbergen and has been published by AOSIS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Religion categories.
The aim of this book is to provide a way to do justice to an African language of faith. In systematic theology, anthropology and philosophy of religion, similar debates about how to interpret an African language of faith are ongoing. Trying to avoid the othering discourses of past generations, scholars are careful to take seriously what people in Africa say without portraying peoples beliefs as weird or backward. Yet, in their desperate attempts to avoid othering, these theologians, anthropologists and philosophers often painfully misconstrue the language of faith in Africa. Understanding the language of faith in Southern Africa is not an easy task. How should we take seriously the form of language that often seems so strange and different? I argue that, after African inculturation theology and black liberation theology, a better way to make sense of being a Christian in Southern Africa is to pay close attention to peoples language of faith. The way in which people speak of the spirit world or powers in Africa appears strange to outsiders, and the sense of community and the holistic worldview differentiates the African way of life from its Euro-American counterparts. When proper attention is paid to the use of concepts like spirit world, power, community and holism, language of faith in Southern Africa is neither as strange as it may seem, nor as romantic. By investigating these distinguishing concepts that colour language of faith in Southern Africa, this book contributes to future projects of both fellow theologians who try to construct a contemporary African theology and those who are interested in theology in Africa given the well-known southward shift of the centre of gravity of Christianity.
African Traditional Religion And The Christian Faith
DOWNLOAD
Author : Cornelius Olowola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
African Traditional Religion And The Christian Faith written by Cornelius Olowola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Religion categories.
This book provides a new, constructive and critical approach to African traditional religion, from the standpoint of Christian faith.
My Faith As An African
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jean-Marc Ela
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2009-05-01
My Faith As An African written by Jean-Marc Ela and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Religion categories.
At a time when Africans, like other peoples, are facing the shock of technological and cultural modernity, liberation of the oppressed must be the primary condition for an authentic inculturation of the Christian message. This is the central axis of the papers in this book, which begins with the questions of faith posed by cultural variables, an internal dimension of the African's condition. In order to understand what is at stake, we need to place these matters in the overall context of a society and a history marked by conflicts-which lead to a rereading of our African memory. The basic issue of the Credibility of Christianity is being raised from with in the dynamic which allows Africans to escape from the inhumanity of the destiny to which certain factors would condemn them. So critical reflection on the relevance of an African Christianity requires us to identify the structures or strategies of exploitation and impoverishment against which Africans have always struggled, finding their own specific forms of resistance within their cultures.
Religious Beliefs And Knowledge Systems In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-09-21
Religious Beliefs And Knowledge Systems In Africa written by Toyin Falola and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Political Science categories.
Key to African studies is understanding the knowledge systems of the continent and her diaspora. The representation and understanding of Africa are dependent on the observer’s definition of knowledge. Afrocentric knowledge is comprised of a collection of political, religious, and indigenous belief systems. Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa begins with deconstructing the Western philosophy of knowledge before defining and exploring the epistemic disciplines of Africa. It transcends postcolonial critique, through an Afrocentric approach to knowledge divided into three key themes. The first of these is the African worldview, exploring knowledge through eldership, witchcraft, and divination. This is followed up by kingship ideology and epistemologies, exploring discussing how politics, religion, and belief shape African society. Finally, the world religion chapter examines Christianity, Islam, and Pentecostalism in their impact on African ways of knowing. This book calls to action new fields of study in universities, encouraging a greater understanding of African ways of knowing through more nuanced disciplines.
Religion And Faith In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : A. E. Orobator
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Religion And Faith In Africa written by A. E. Orobator and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Religion categories.
Before his conversion to Christianity, A E Orobator was raised in the practice of traditional African religion - animism. This repository of African religion, he maintains - at its heart a deep belief in the livingness of creation - is the soil in which Christianity and Islam have taken root. Drawn from his "Duffy Lectures" delivered at Boston College, Orobator examines the living interplay between African religion, Christianity, and Islam in Africa, and argues that the religious experience and spiritual imagination of Africa offers a genius capable of renewing the global community of believers. Among these gifts: a deep conscience of transcendence in day-to-day living; reverence towards human and natural ecologies; and a holistic understanding of creation and shared responsibility of stewardship for the universe.
The Baha I Faith In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Anthony Lee
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-10-28
The Baha I Faith In Africa written by Anthony Lee and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-28 with Religion categories.
One million Baha'is live in africa. This is the first academic volume to explore the history of this movement on the continent. The book discusses the diverse and contractivory American, Iranian, British, and African contributions to this new religious movement.
Tales Of Faith
DOWNLOAD
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-06
Tales Of Faith written by V. Y. Mudimbe and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-06 with Political Science categories.
This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage.