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Pragmatic Faith And The Tanzanian Lutheran Church
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Book Synopsis Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church by : Amy Stambach
Download or read book Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church written by Amy Stambach and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work examines the operations and organization of the Tanzanian Lutheran church through the life and times of its longest serving diocesan bishop, Erasto N. Kweka. Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu develop the concept of pragmatic faith, belief-in-practice, to analyze the integration of religious experience, institutionalism, and doctrine or orthodoxy. Pragmatic faith breaks down the lingering binary found in anthropological studies of Christianity between transcendental experience and pragmatic struggle, and between religious revival as rupture or continuity. Stambach and Kwayu analyze the instrumental use of religion in practice, as well as its socially mobilized potential for revelation and transformation. A key analytic agenda of this book is to illuminate how a church that retains the organizational and ritual forms of a European mission church "became" culturally localized over time and yet, paradoxically, also existed pre-colonially. Accordingly, this book offers detailed and ethnographically-grounded perspective on how leaders and laypeople affiliated with the Tanzanian Lutheran church connect the church with other significant institutions, not only the state and the government, but also descent groups, extended families, self-help groups, and existing civic organizations, in order to live meaningfully.
Book Synopsis EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline by : Digdem Soyaltin-Colella
Download or read book EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline written by Digdem Soyaltin-Colella and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union (EU) support for good governance reforms has been the cornerstone of its conditionality and funding policies and contributed its role as a transformative power. This book re-evaluates the EU’s governance promotion capacity both within the EU and beyond its borders in light of the simultaneous decline in democracy in Europe in particular, and across the whole world in general. The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the EU’s good governance transfer to member and accession countries. Part II examines how and to what extent the EU’s governance promotion strategies travel beyond its borders and focuses on neighbours, partners, and aid recipient countries especially in Africa. Part III turns to other regional and global actors and discusses the implications of illiberal contesters such as China and Russia on the future of EU’s good governance promotion efforts. The findings of the book bring fresh insights for the scope and depth of the EU’s governance transfer capacity.
Book Synopsis Pacifying Missions by : Geoffrey Troughton
Download or read book Pacifying Missions written by Geoffrey Troughton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacifying Missions interrogates the variegated and contested ways that missionaries imagined, articulated, and enacted peace, considering its complex entanglements with violence in the British Empire. The volume brings together world leading historical scholarship on issues of increasing contemporary valence.
Book Synopsis Lutheran Identity and Political Theology by : Carl-Henric Grenholm
Download or read book Lutheran Identity and Political Theology written by Carl-Henric Grenholm and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care. One reason that Lutheran theology has been interpreted in various ways is that it is always influenced by surrounding social andcultural contexts. In a society where the church has lost a great deal of its cultural impact and authority, and where there is a plurality of religious convictions, the question of Lutheran identity has never been more urgent. However, this question is also raised in the Global South where Lutheran churches need to find their identity in a relationship with several other religions. Here this relationship is developed from a minority perspective. Is it possible to develop a Lutheran political theology that gives adequate contributions to issues concerning social and economic justice? What is the role of women in church and society around the world? Is it possible to interpret Lutheran theology in such a way that it includes liberating perspectives? These are some of the questions and issues discussed in this book.
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Book Synopsis Christian Couples Coping with Childlessness by : Auli Vahakangas
Download or read book Christian Couples Coping with Childlessness written by Auli Vahakangas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are the focus of marriage in African cultures. Marriage is considered full and functional only if the couple has children--in many cultures preferably a boy. Becoming a parent also contributes to one's full adulthood in the sense that childlessness blocks ascent towards full personal dignity as an adult person in the community. As a result, childlessness is often a major disaster for both of the spouses. It has social, economical, and personal consequences, quite often including divorce. This book explores in depth how childlessness is perceived, dealt with, and coped with in two Christian communities in Machame on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Childlessness is approached through narratives of the spouses concerned and the members of their communities. Their stories reveal pain and courage, brokenness and strength, faithfulness and betrayal. Christianity presents itself in an ambiguous light, on one hand, pressuring spouses to keep up facades supporting oppressive structures. On the other hand, Christian faith provides childless couples with personal hope in the afterlife that the African traditional culture offers only to those with children. This study proves that childlessness is not only a personal but also a communal problem. Childlessness and the fear of having no children contribute to family structures and sexual behavior. In this way, they have a considerable impact on the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. However, this study reveals that the attitudes and practices towards marriage and children need not be petrified, but rather that traditions can, and do, change.
Book Synopsis Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa by : Klaus Fiedler
Download or read book Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa written by Klaus Fiedler and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.
Book Synopsis Mending the World? by : Niclas Blader
Download or read book Mending the World? written by Niclas Blader and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has played a major role in history, affecting the course of events and influencing individuals. Today one frequently hears the expression "the return of religion" but opinions differ as to how this "return" is to be understood. It is clear that modernity and postmodernity have not meant that religion is dead or relegated to society's backyards. Religion is still of vital importance for many people. It has, to some extent, changed shape but has not lost its legitimacy and attractiveness to broad groups. Religion is public, visible, and has a sought-for voice; but it is also wrestling with extremism, ignorance, and preconceptions. Just like ideologies, religions are capable of activating diametrically opposite traits in humans. It is this dual tension that is implicit in the question mark in this book's title: Mending the World? This book's aim is to help explore whether, how, and in what ways religion, church, and theology can contribute constructively to the future of a global society. In thirty-one chapters, researchers from around the world address the relation between religion and society.
Book Synopsis The Story of Faith Missions by : Klaus Fiedler
Download or read book The Story of Faith Missions written by Klaus Fiedler and published by OCMS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Song and Stance by : Marcus Paul Bach Felde
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Book Synopsis The Missionary Movement in Colonial Kenya: The foundation of Africa Inland Church by : James Karanja
Download or read book The Missionary Movement in Colonial Kenya: The foundation of Africa Inland Church written by James Karanja and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is about the early history of a faith mission seeking to establish its missionary work in central Kenya. It is also an exploration of the early beginnings of the Africa Inland Church in Kikuyuland, now part of AIC Kenya. The work exposes both AIM missionaries and the Africans in their constant winnowing away of inessentials in order to retain a core religious belief and practice that was vital in upholding what each had come to hold as of spiritual value. At the center of the work, in one of the chapters, is a story of a jointly created anxiety about education which was as much Kikuyu as Western and which taught, therefore, that Africans and Western Missionaries were equidistant to education; that would teach them to read the Bible. The realizations made in creating the story at the beginning of Missionary work in colonial Kenya, brought both origin and conclusion of an immensely complex but valid process in which arguments, theological debates, agonized doubts, revitalized flames of belief and unrelenting determination divided both the missionaries and the indigenous adherents in such a manner that one cannot adequately and accurately build an argument on opposing sides; Kikuyu people and the missionaries. In any case both the AIM missionaries and early Kikuyu Christians were committed to the joint effort of building the African Christianity. The research uses mission, religio-historical, social religious and oral sources to reconstruct a rich historiography of the foundation of African Christianity. The book will be a solid contribution to the growing field of comparative mission history in Africa. The work as a commendable source adds new data and raises new and necessary questions about Christianity in Kenya; exploring Kikuyu Christianity through careful and systematic collection of original missionary writings and oral materials. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work grew out of my ThD. Dissertation presented to the Philipps University Marburg and appears here with minor revisions. I am greatly indebted to the many persons and institutions that have helped me in the preparation of this work. I am especially indebted to my doctoral supervisors, Prof. Dr. Christoph Elsas and Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Richebächer, especially Prof. Elsas whose kindness, insightful supervision and untiring support maintained my commitment through periods of tough times. I am similarly grateful to Prof. Dr. Johannes Reimer, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Balz, Dr. Steven O’Malley for their support and constructive criticisms. The staff of Billy Graham Archives Center, Kenya National Archives, and various libraries and archives made available the material that I required. I would like to thank you all for your support. During my field research in Kenya, I was greatly assisted by pastors, evangelists, missionaries and ordinary local Christians in locating some other important sources and informants. This help and generosity of my informants, whose names are indicated at the bibliography has been very much appreciated. Others like Scott Collins who catered for my research trip to Wheaton College-BGC and Asbury Seminary Archives, I thank you very much for your support. You all added inestimable value to my work and are highly appreciated. Finally, I am also greatly indebted to my wife, Ulrike, and our two kids, GraceAnn and Phil Leon, without whose patience this book would not have been completed. Thank you for your love and support. Though many people have contributed immensely to the completion of this work, any misrepresentation, misinterpretation, or other errors of omission are entirely mine, and if any, I apologize. Dr. James Karanja
Book Synopsis Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith by : Hansjörg Dilger
Download or read book Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith written by Hansjörg Dilger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how learning and teaching morality in Tanzania's faith-oriented schools is inextricably interwoven with the complex power relations of an interconnected world.
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