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Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti

Author : Ali Yiğit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040027695
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti written by Ali Yiğit and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships. Christian missionaries did not come to Africa for: their own interests, the Christianization of Africa, European colonial projects, the interests of Africans, the establishment of European civilization in Africa, but came for all. Once, there was a dialogue between the Christian missionaries and pagan Africans which was in time replaced by contest for superiority, and finally by conflict. Accordingly, the countenance of the continent has changed forever.

Christianity and the African Counter-discourse in Achebe and Beti

Author : Ali Yiğit (English literature scholar)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003440956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the African Counter-discourse in Achebe and Beti written by Ali Yiğit (English literature scholar) and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships. Christian missionaries did not come to Africa for: their own interests, the Christianization of Africa, European colonial projects, the interests of Africans, the establishment of European civilization in Africa, but came for all. Once, there was a dialogue between the Christian missionaries and pagan Africans which was in time replaced by contest for superiority, and finally by conflict. Accordingly, the countenance of the continent has changed forever"--

Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora

Author : Afe Adogame
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441140417
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora written by Afe Adogame and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of African Christianity and its offshoots in the Diaspora is rooted in colonial history and resistance to oppression, exploitation and slavery. Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora offers new resources for the interpretation and analysis of African Christian movements. It draws attention to a number of key issues, including the translatability of the Christian faith, the process of contextualization in various cultures, the place and role of indigenous agencies, the global impact of contemporary African Christian expressions, its influence on ecumenical relations and inter-religious encounters, and its way of shaping new religious identities and landscapes in response to power relations and artificial boundaries. Topics covered include the concept of diaspora, deconstructing colonial mission, conversion, African cosmologies, African retentions, female leadership dynamics, liberation theology, a new discourse around HIV/AIDS, transnational religious networks, pentecostal/charismatic movements, charismatic renewal within former mission churches, dynamics of reverse mission, outreach via cyberspace, specific studies on Anglican, Baptist, Adventist and Kimbanguist missions, and the need for intercultural and interdenominational bridge building.

Kwame Bediako and African Christian Scholarship

Author : Sara J. Fretheim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498299040
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Kwame Bediako and African Christian Scholarship written by Sara J. Fretheim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a departure from current theologically-focused scholarship on Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako, this book places him within the wider historical continuum of twentieth-century Ghana and reads him as a leading Christian scholar within the African study of African religions. The book traces a variety of influences and figures within this emerging African discourse in Ghana, including aspects of missions and colonial history and the voices of poets, politicians, prophets, and priests. Locating Bediako within this complex twentieth-century matrix, this intellectual history draws upon his published and key unpublished works, including his first masters and doctoral dissertations on Négritude literature, an abiding influence on his later Christian thought and an essential foundation for interpreting this scholar. This book also “reads” the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture as “text” by Bediako, revealing essential components of his intellectual and spiritual itinerary revealed in the Institute’s community and curriculum. This approach challenges narrowly-focused theological scholarship on Bediako, while highlighting critical methodological divisions between African, Western, confessional, and non-confessional approaches to the study of religion in Africa. In doing so, it highlights the rich complexity of this emerging African discourse and identifies Bediako as a pioneering African Christian intellectual within this wider field.

Postcolonial Identities and West African Literature

Author : Anwesha Das
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527591492
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Identities and West African Literature written by Anwesha Das and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anchored in postcolonial theory, this book highlights the concept of “postcolonial soliloquies” as an original idea in analyzing West African literature. It uses the political theory of “dialogue” to broaden the reader’s understanding of history, culture, identity and indigenous memories. The book shows how the novels of T. Obinkaram Echewa plunge into the known territory of colonial history with new boundaries.

Theology Brewed in an African Pot

Author : A. E. Orobator
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology Brewed in an African Pot written by A. E. Orobator and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourses of Indigenous Christian Elites in Colonial Societies in Asia and Africa Around 1900

Author : Klaus Koschorke
Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447105781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Discourses of Indigenous Christian Elites in Colonial Societies in Asia and Africa Around 1900 written by Klaus Koschorke and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documentary sourcebook presents a selection of articles from indigenous Christian journals from four regions in Asia and Africa around 1900 (India, South Africa, West Africa, and the Philippines). It highlights the voices of local Christian elites and their contributions to the public discourses in different colonial societies on both continents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At the same time, it also intends to create an awareness of the various links and transregional (or even transcontinental) networks among indigenous Christian elites that were established through these (and related) journals. Resulting from a larger research project on periodicals and journals of Asian and African Christians around 1900, this sourcebook is the first compilation of such texts in a comparative perspective. The volume is of particular interest to students and scholars in the field of history of Christianity, mission and colonial studies, globalization, cultural, religious and regional studies, and history of the press.

A Reader in African Christian Theology

Author : Abingdon Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780687860920
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book A Reader in African Christian Theology written by Abingdon Press and published by . This book was released on 1992-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dissertation Abstracts International

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Home and Exile

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190285559
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Home and Exile written by Chinua Achebe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and, indeed, go one better than the Empire, they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people. Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression, writers must focus on where they come from, insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world, he concludes, and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away. Home and Exile is a moving account of an exceptional life. Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. It is a story of the triumph of mind, told in the words of one of this century's most gifted writers.

The Invention of Africa

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780253204684
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Africa written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1988-05-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V. Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge." -- P. 4 of cover.

A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien

Author : David Day
Publisher : Pyramid
ISBN 13 : 0753734060
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien written by David Day and published by Pyramid. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil. In this dictionary of sources, Tolkien scholar and best-selling author David Day's four decades of research inform us about the lands, inhabitants, languages, geography and history of Middle-earth. This compelling encyclopedia on Tolkien's world also includes over 200 illustrations and an appendix. This work is unofficial and is not authorized by the Tolkien Estate or HarperCollins Publishers.

COVID-19

Author : Labeodan, Helen A.
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863098277
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 written by Labeodan, Helen A. and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "COVID-19 has, like other crises, thrown into relief social injustices and gendered inequalities. BiAS 31/ ERA 8 offers theological responses to and reflections on the COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic. All are by African scholars and authors; some are academic, some experiential, and others creative or impressionistic in tone. Reflecting the ethos and commitment of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians ("The Circle") to nurture and promote the publications by and about African women and men committed to social justice and positive change, this issue contains the writings of some established but, predominantly, of emerging theologians. For some contributors, this is their first publication in an international series."

Maps of Empire

Author : Kyle Wanberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487534957
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Maps of Empire written by Kyle Wanberg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.

The African Imagination

Author : F. Abiola Irele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195358813
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The African Imagination written by F. Abiola Irele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampat'e B^a, and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West. Taken as a whole, this volume makes a superb introduction to African literature and to the work of one of its leading interpreters.

Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World

Author : Rebecca Romdhani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000433218
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World written by Rebecca Romdhani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of violence are specifically rooted in colonial forms of abuse and oppression but constantly move and morph. Taking its cue from theories in such fields as postcolonial, violence, gender, and trauma studies, the book thus shows that violence is slippery in form, but also fluid in nature, so that one must trace its movement across time and space to understand even a single instance of it. When analysing such forms and trajectories of violence in postcolonial creative writing and films, the contributors critically examine the ethical issues involved in narrating abuse, depicting violated bodies, and presenting romanticized resolutions that may conceal other forms of violence.

Knowledge, Power and Dissent

Author : Guy R. Neave
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231040405
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Power and Dissent written by Guy R. Neave and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is based on the discussions of the 2004 Global Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, held in Paris in December 2004. It contains contributions from 17 international experts in the field of higher education which explore the global rise of the 'knowledge society' and its implications for higher education and for sustainable human development in the future.