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Author : Harris W. Mobley
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ghanaian's image of the missionary written by Harris W. Mobley and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1970 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harris Witsel Mobley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Ghanaian's Image of the Missionary written by Harris Witsel Mobley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Charles Jȩdrej
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004103610
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Ingessana written by M. Charles Jȩdrej and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the nature and persistence of the indigenous religious institutions of a society in the cultural and political margins of the Sudan.
Author : Akwasi O. Ofori
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490874933
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Recovering Storytelling for Ghanaian Preaching written by Akwasi O. Ofori and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role narrative can play to renew preaching in Ghanaian congregations. It does this by describing and classifying models of preaching in North America and applies those models to the Ghanaian situation carefully guarding against assuming that a western model can be adapted without question.
Author : Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031271289
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 written by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.
Author : Benjamin Bronnert Walker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228011604
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Religion in Global Health and Development written by Benjamin Bronnert Walker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident that the field of global health – its practices, norms, and failures – has the power to shape the lives of billions. Global health perspectives on the role of religion, however, are strikingly limited. Uncovering the points where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century, focusing on Ghana, provides an opportunity to challenge narrow approaches. In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows that the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the turn of the twenty-first century. Walker surveys the establishment of colonial development projects in the twentieth century, with a focus on the period between 1940 and 1990. Crossing the colonial-postcolonial divide, analyzing local contexts in conjunction with the many layers of international organizations, and identifying surprisingly neglected streams of personnel and funding (particularly from Dutch and West German Catholics), this in-depth history offers new ways of conceptualizing global health. Patchworks of international humanitarian intervention, fragmented government services, local communities, and the actions of many foreign powers combined to create health services and the state in Ghana. Religion in Global Health and Development shows that religion and religious actors were critical to this process – socially, culturally, and politically.
Author : Jon Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136876189
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control written by Jon Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and recurrent internal problems to the commitment to difficult Pietist beliefs about authority and obedience. The organization survived those troubles and its impact on Ghana continued to grow, because the same biblical worldview that demanded extreme discipline also prepared the members of the mission community to sustain their efforts.
Author : Opoku Onyinah
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004397108
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Pentecostal Exorcism written by Opoku Onyinah and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Witchcraft" and exorcism have long been dominant features of life in African cultures. This unique book provides a thorough, field research-based description and analysis of a specifically Pentecostal Christian response to these phenomena within the Akan culture of Ghana. Anthropological studies generally claim that the ultimate goal of exorcism is modernisation. Using interdisciplinary studies with a theological focus, the author takes a different view, arguing that it is divinatory consultation or an inquiry into the sacred and the search for meaning that underlies the current "deliverance" ministry, where the focus is to identify and break down the so-called demonic forces by the power of God and to "deliver" people from their torment. The deliverance ministry is one attempt to contextualise the gospel for African people. However, preoccupation with demonisation and exorcistic practices is found to bring Christianity into tension with the Akan culture, family ties and other religions. In order to develop a properly safeguarded ministry of exorcism in an African context, the author examines contextualisation and suggests the integration into African Christianity of divinatory consultation, which has strong resonances with the biblical concept of prayer.
Author : Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802862810
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Spirit in the World written by Veli-Matti Karkkainen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostal scholars from four continents here offer constructive theological proposals focusing on the role of the Holy Spirit in diverse cultural and religious contexts. Typical Pentecostal topics Spirit-baptism, healing, and other charisms are interwoven with such themes as post-colonialism, religious plurality, racial diversity, and cultural heritage.
Author : James Karanja
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3867278563
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)
Download or read book The Missionary Movement in Colonial Kenya written by James Karanja and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terrence L. Craig
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004319999
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Missionary Lives written by Terrence L. Craig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a survey of the life writings by and about Canadian missionaries at home and abroad, over the last one hundred and thirty years. A general missionary history of Canada appears first, to introduce separate chapters on the forms and themes of this body of literature. The critical problems presented by writing that has resisted modern and post-modern developments are discussed. Partial and fictional life writing, as well as marginal forms, are also explored. The book concludes with general statements about the whole of this literature and its effects. The first attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of Canadian missionary life writing is appended.
Author : Ulrike Sill
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004188886
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood written by Ulrike Sill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed study of how the practices and notions of the Basel Mission regarding women and gender were received, conceptualised and negotiated in local terms in pre and early colonial Ghanaian societies, 1843-1885.
Author : Chima Jacob Korieh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415955599
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa written by Chima Jacob Korieh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range of perspectives to address the intersection between missions, evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans; and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary endeavours and official colonial actions could all be conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies in their encounter with African societies.
Author : Laryea, Philip Tetteh
Publisher : Sub-Saharan Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9988647107
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Patriotism and Nation Building written by Laryea, Philip Tetteh and published by Sub-Saharan Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deepest and most significant aspect of the heritage of any nation lies in her people. A people’s dignity, worth and value can be measured by their human resources. More important than mineral wealth, more significant than financial capital and of more value than land and property, are the leaders of thought and character, that a communal or social group can lay claim to. Towering above the tallest buildings, reaching deeper than the roots of ancient trees, are society’s icons, doyens of a people’s life and culture. Often unrecognized in their lifetime, sometimes vilified or else silenced by political forces, these persons represent a people’s legacy and gift to humankind. Such was Dr. Ephraim Amu, native of Peki Avetile, son of West Africa’s “Gold Coast”, scholar, teacher, musician, ethicist, and preacher. In this book, Prof. Laryea has by careful and detailed research, rendered an invaluable service to posterity in unearthing and making available the life, works and public speeches of Dr Ephraim Amu. Thoughtfully selecting over sixty of Amu’s sermons spanning a period of 50 years (1937 - 1986), Laryea enables us to more deeply enter the inner thoughts and expressions of one of Ghana’s most illustrious sons, thus allowing us into the veritable engine room of the composer of Ghana’s national song, “Yân ara asase ni”, crafted by Amu in 1929. In doing so he has also opened up and thrown light upon very significant periods in the nation’s history.
Author : Birgit Meyer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471005
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Translating the Devil written by Birgit Meyer and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of a local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana. Focusing on the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which arose from encounters between the Ewe and German Piestist missionaries, the author examines recent conflicts leading to the secession of many pentecostally oriented members, which it places in a historical perspective. The main argument is that, for the Ewe, involvement with modernity goes hand in hand with new enchantment, rather than disenchantment, of the world. At the grassroots level, the study focuses on the image of the Devil, which the missionaries communicated to the Ewe through translation and which currently receives much attention in the Pentecostal churches. It is shown that this image played and still plays a crucial role in the local appropriation of Christianity, since diabolisation confirmed the existence of local gods and witchcraft and incorporated them into Christian belief as demons. Comparing the discourses and practices of mission and Pentecostal churches, the study reveals that the latter pay much more attention to Satan - especially through 'deliverance' rituals. Pentecostalism's increasing popularity thus stems from the fact that it ties into historically generated local understandings of Christianity, which, despite a declared dislike of non-Christian religious practices, stand much closer to Ewe religion than missionary Christianity. With its emphasis on the hybrid image of the Devil and people's obsessions with occult forces as a way to mediate the attractions and discontents of modernity, this book sheds light on a hitherto neglected dimension in studies of African Christianity.
Author : Birgit Herppich
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498229522
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Pitfalls of Trained Incapacity written by Birgit Herppich and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century. The Basel Missionary Training Institute (BMTI) was the first school designed solely for the purpose of preparing European missionaries for ministry in non-European lands. Pitfalls of Trained Incapacity explores the various sociological and historical factors that influenced the BMTI "community of practice" and how the outcomes affected the work of the Basel Mission in Ghana in its initial phase. It shows that the integral training of the BMTI resulted in missionary practices that lacked flexibility to adjust attitudes and behavior to the vastly different circumstances in Africa, impeded the realization of mission objectives, and hindered the emergence of an African appropriation of Christianity. By exploring educational and sociological perspectives in a precolonial context, this study reaches beyond its historical significance to raise questions of unintended effects of integral ministry training in other times and places. The natural cultural bias of groups with shared theological assumptions and social ideals--like the Basel Mission--suggests a strong propensity for trained incapacity, that is, for training processes that establish inflexible mental frameworks that are potentially detrimental to intercultural engagement.
Author : Martha Frederiks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399607
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission written by Martha Frederiks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.
