Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya

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ISBN 13 : 9781850659341
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Book Synopsis Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya by : Paul Gifford

Download or read book Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya written by Paul Gifford and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also said to be 80 percent Christian. Under the bland label 'Kenyan Christianity', several different overlapping realities can be distinguished, and it is these which Gifford investigates in this book, relating them to the country's politics and public life. The politically engaged form that challenged the dysfunctional one-party state in the early 1990s is given due prominence, but Gifford contends that today the mainline churches, both Catholic and Protestant, are marked less by such political engagement than by their involvement in development, in which foreign missionaries and global networks play a huge role. The theology of Kenya's mainline churches is consciously focused on African culture, as a non-negotiable foundation, and the Catholic church has an additional agenda - to Africanise its religious congregations. Kenya is also noted for its rich variety of African indigenous Churches, all originating in a defence of Kenyan cultures, while in recent decades countless Pentecostal churches have also sprung up. They range from affluent middle class churches to refuges for the poor, but nearly all are characterised by a stress on power, success, achievement and prosperity that prioritises modernity rather than traditional culture. Gifford discusses their deployment of the media, crusades, organisation, theology and use of the Bible, and above all the economics that has made this phenomenon possible. Yet another distinct form is an enchanted Christianity in which demons or spiritual forces are deemed responsible for almost everything

Christianity Among the Nomads

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Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN 13 : 9966217843
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Book Synopsis Christianity Among the Nomads by : Paolo Tablino

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Church We Want

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Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608336689
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Book Synopsis Church We Want by : Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.

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A History of the Church in Africa

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521583428
Total Pages : 1268 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of the Church in Africa by : Bengt Sundkler

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Kenyan, Christian, Queer

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085606
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis Kenyan, Christian, Queer by : Adriaan van Klinken

Download or read book Kenyan, Christian, Queer written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity’s contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism. Taking up the notion of “arts of resistance,” Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions—including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the “Same Love” music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations. Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.

The Encyclopedia of Christianity

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802824158
Total Pages : 924 pages
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Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Christianity by : Erwin Fahlbusch

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International Handbook of Catholic Education

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402057768
Total Pages : 905 pages
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Book Synopsis International Handbook of Catholic Education by : Gerald Grace

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The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics

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ISBN 13 : 0198815697
Total Pages : 786 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics by : Nic Cheeseman

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The Catholic Directory of Kenya

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Total Pages : 170 pages
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Introduction to Philosophy

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Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN 13 : 9966081054
Total Pages : 217 pages
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Book Synopsis Introduction to Philosophy by : Maurice Muhatia Makumba

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African Christianity

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253212047
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Book Synopsis African Christianity by : Paul Gifford

Download or read book African Christianity written by Paul Gifford and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These detailed analyses of the state of the churches in each country suggest more general patterns operating widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

The East African Revival

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 140948176X
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book The East African Revival written by Mr Kevin Ward and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1930s the East African Revival influenced Christian expression in East Central Africa and around the globe. This book analyses influences upon the movement and changes wrought by it in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo, highlighting its impact on spirituality, political discourse and culture. A variety of scholarly approaches to a complex and changing phenomenon are juxtaposed with the narration of personal stories of testimony, vital to spirituality and expression of the revival, which give a sense of the dynamism of the movement. Those yet unacquainted with the revival will find a helpful introduction to its history. Those more familiar with the movement will discover new perspectives on its influence.

Inventory of the Catholic Church's Response to HIV/AIDS in Kenya

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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Book Synopsis Inventory of the Catholic Church's Response to HIV/AIDS in Kenya by : Kenya Catholic Secretariat. Health & Family Life Commission

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Catholic Modern

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674972104
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book Catholic Modern written by James Chappel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic antimodern, 1920-1929 -- Anti-communism and paternal Catholicism, 1929-1944 -- Anti-fascism and fraternal Catholicism, 1929-1944 -- Rebuilding Christian Europe, 1944-1950 -- Christian democracy and Catholic innovation in the long 1950s -- The return of heresy in the global 1960s

An Outline History of the Catholic Church in Western Kenya to 1952

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Total Pages : 98 pages
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Book Synopsis An Outline History of the Catholic Church in Western Kenya to 1952 by : Gilbert E. M. Ogutu

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Handbook of African Catholicism

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Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833936X
Total Pages : 1003 pages
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Book Synopsis Handbook of African Catholicism by : Ilo, Stan Chu

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African Catholic

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674987667
Total Pages : 385 pages
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Book Synopsis African Catholic by : Elizabeth A. Foster

Download or read book African Catholic written by Elizabeth A. Foster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize A groundbreaking history of how Africans in the French Empire embraced both African independence and their Catholic faith during the upheaval of decolonization, leading to a fundamental reorientation of the Catholic Church. African Catholic examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of French sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the political transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to alter the church hierarchy to create an authentically “African” church. Elizabeth Foster recreates a Franco-African world forged by conquest, colonization, missions, and conversions—one that still exists today. We meet missionaries in Africa and their superiors in France, African Catholic students abroad destined to become leaders in their home countries, African Catholic intellectuals and young clergymen, along with French and African lay activists. All of these men and women were preoccupied with the future of France’s colonies, the place of Catholicism in a postcolonial Africa, and the struggle over their personal loyalties to the Vatican, France, and the new African states. Having served as the nuncio to France and the Vatican’s liaison to UNESCO in the 1950s, Pope John XXIII understood as few others did the central questions that arose in the postwar Franco-African Catholic world. Was the church truly universal? Was Catholicism a conservative pillar of order or a force to liberate subjugated and exploited peoples? Could the church change with the times? He was thinking of Africa on the eve of Vatican II, declaring in a radio address shortly before the council opened, “Vis-à-vis the underdeveloped countries, the church presents itself as it is and as it wants to be: the church of all.”