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Religion and Faith in Africa

Author : A. E. Orobator
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626982765
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Faith in Africa written by A. E. Orobator and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Faith in African Lived Christianity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004412255
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Faith in African Lived Christianity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

African Religions

Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199790582
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book African Religions written by Jacob K. Olupona and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.

The Baha'i Faith in Africa

Author : Anthony Lee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004206841
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Baha'i Faith in Africa written by Anthony Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Theology Brewed in an African Pot

Author : Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331008
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Theology Brewed in an African Pot written by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing introduction to Christian doctrine from an African perspective. Using a framework of excerpts from Chinua Achebe's well-known novel, Things Fall Apart, the author introduces the major themes of Christian doctrine: God, Trinity, creation, grace and sin, Jesus Christ, church, Mary, the saints, inculturation, and spirituality. While explaining basic Christian beliefs, Theology Brewed in an African Pot also clarifies the differences between an African view of religion and a more Eurocentric understanding of religion. Very accessible and engaging, each of the eleven short chapters ends with three discussion questions followed by one or two African prayers.

Church We Want

Author : Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608336689
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Church We Want written by Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring essays from a broad range of contributors this book is a treasure for anyone interested in theological reflection from an African perspective and is a necessary resource for theologians and scholars working in a church that is steadily moving its center to the Global South.

Religion and Development in Africa

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863097351
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Development in Africa written by Ezra Chitando and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--

Trajectories of Religion in Africa

Author : Cephas N. Omenyo
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210578
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Trajectories of Religion in Africa written by Cephas N. Omenyo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, in the main, discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological education and assesses the relevance of the World Council of Churches. Other issues discussed in this segment relate to the interrelationships that exist between academic theology, ecumenism, and Christianity. The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, which set the agenda for world-wide mission in a promising manner in the 1920s, is also assessed in this section of the work. The second segment, which covers Religion and Public Space, discusses works that examine the relationships between religion and power, religion and development, religion and traditional religious beliefs, and religion and practices in Africa. The third segment of the book treats Religion and Cultural Practices in African and how all these work out in couching out an African theology and African Christianity. Some of the issues discussed in this section related to African traditional philosophy, spiritism, and the interrelationships that exist between African Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The last segment of the book discusses the issue of African biblical hermeneutics and specifically looks at contemporary hermeneutical approaches to biblical interpretations in Africa.

Introduction to African Religion

Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478628928
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to African Religion written by John S. Mbiti and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his widely acclaimed survey, John Mbiti sheds light on the survival and prosperity of African Religion in different historical, geographical, sociological, cultural, and physical environments. He presents a constellation of African worldviews, beliefs in God, use of symbols, valued traditions, and practices that have taken root with African peoples throughout the vast continent. Mbiti’s accessible writing style sympathetically portrays how African Religion manifests itself in ritual, festival, healing, the human life cycle, and interplay with the mystical and invisible world. The account embraces foundational traditions, while touching on elements that spawn transitions, including migration, the spread of Christianity and Islam, political-economic development, and modern communication. This popular introduction leaves readers with informed knowledge of the riches of African heritage.

My Faith as an African

Author : Jean-Marc Ela
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606086235
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book My Faith as an African written by Jean-Marc Ela and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

African Traditional Religion and the Christian Faith

Author : Cornelius Olowola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African Traditional Religion and the Christian Faith written by Cornelius Olowola and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new, constructive and critical approach to African traditional religion, from the standpoint of Christian faith.

Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas

Author : Yolanda Covington-Ward
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478013117
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas written by Yolanda Covington-Ward and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the dynamics of religious and racial identity among Brazilian Neo-Pentecostals; the significance of cloth coverings in Islamic practice in northern Nigeria; the ethics of socially engaged hip-hop lyrics by Black Muslim artists in Britain; ritual dance performances among Mama Tchamba devotees in Togo; and how Ifá practitioners from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and the United States join together in a shared spiritual ethnicity. From possession and spirit-induced trembling to dance, the contributors outline how embodied religious practices are central to expressing and shaping interiority and spiritual lives, national and ethnic belonging, ways of knowing and techniques of healing, and sexual and gender politics. In this way, the body is a crucial site of religiously motivated social action for people of African descent. Contributors. Rachel Cantave, Youssef Carter, N. Fadeke Castor, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Casey Golomski, Elyan Jeanine Hill, Nathanael J. Homewood, Jeanette S. Jouili, Bertin M. Louis Jr., Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Aaron Montoya, Jacob K. Olupona, Elisha P. Renne

Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538150255
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Tales of Faith

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474281370
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Faith written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora

Author : Carolyn M. Jones Medine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498056
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora by : Carolyn M. Jones Medine

Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora written by Carolyn M. Jones Medine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world. The volume focuses on the continent, on African identity in globalization, and on African religion in cultural change.

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind

Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830837051
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind written by Thomas C. Oden and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.