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Author | : Elia Shabani Mligo |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2013-08-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1621898245 |
Download Elements of African Traditional Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
African Traditional religion (ATR) is one of the world religions with a great people and a great past. It is embraced by Africans within and outside the continent despite the various ethnic religious practices and beliefs. This book highlights and discusses the common elements which introduce African Traditional Religion as one unified religion and not a collection of religions. The major focus of the book is discussing the need for studying ATR in twenty-first-century Africa whereby globalization and multi-culture are prominent phenomena. Why should we study the religion of indigenous Africans in this age? In response to this question, the book argues that since ATR is part of the African people's culture, there is a need to understand this cultural background in order to contextualize Christian theology. Using some illustrations from Nyumbanitu worship shrine located at Njombe in Tanzania, the book purports that there is a need to understand African people's worldview, their understanding of God, their religious values, symbols and rituals in order to enhance meaningful dialogue between Christianity and African people's current worldview. In this case, the book is important for students of comparative religion in universities and colleges who strive to understand the various religions and their practices.
Author | : J. N. Kanyua Mugambi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Download Christianity and African Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jacob K. Olupona |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199790582 |
Download African Religions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Author | : John Chitakure |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 149824419X |
Download African Traditional Religion Encounters Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation. In fact, God uses people's environment and culture to communicate his will. There is no single religion that can claim to have the exclusive possession of God's revelation, for God is too immense to be confined within one faith. Hence, it was erroneous, blasphemous, and misleading for some of the early Christian missionaries to Africa to claim that they had brought God to Africa, a mentality that implied the non-existence of God in Africa before their arrival. Of course, God was already in Africa, but the missionaries either failed to discern his presence or just disregarded the traces of his existence. This book explores the religious beliefs, practices, and values of the indigenous people of Africa at the time of the early missionaries' arrival, with particular reference to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. It also evaluates the extent of the missionarie's successes and challenges in converting Africans to Christianity. It finally surveys how African Christians have remained attached to the indigenous religious beliefs that used to provide answers to their existential questions.
Author | : Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2010-07-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830837051 |
Download How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Cornelius Olowola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download African Traditional Religion and the Christian Faith Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a new, constructive and critical approach to African traditional religion, from the standpoint of Christian faith.
Author | : Mercy A. Oduyoye |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1606088610 |
Download Hearing and Knowing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
I would urge everyone to receive this book with openness and understanding. Written by an African Christian woman, it is a serious attempt to speak of the fullness of the Gospel to the specific African context. As one individual's struggle to give account of the hope that lies in her, it is a passionate and sincere work, and a welcome contribution to the growing genre of religious literature known as liberation theology. The author seeks not only to speak to us but also to move us and bring us to different ways of 'hearing and knowing.' She has succeeded with me. -Lamin Sanneh Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University This book is a remarkable synthesis of history, theology, and missions. It is one of the most important books of the decade because it is written by a Ghanian Christian woman who resides in Nigeria and has travelled the world-over demanding that we no longer allow traditional theological puzzles to go unexamined. Oduyoye's writings are like a breath of fresh air to women in ministry and in the church. -Katie G. Cannon Episcopal Divinity School Amber Oduyoye is Africa's leading woman theologian. In this book we meet a woman of faith reflecting in a scholarly and meditative way on Christianity in Africa. Learned in both the Western and African theological traditions, Professor Oduyoye brings constructive criticism to bear on each in the interest of promoting a wider community of wholeness. -Peter J. Paris Princeton Theological Seminary
Author | : Bregje de Kok |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Christianity and African Traditional Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book describes itself as: 'a cultural, psychological study of the way Christian Malawians account for their involvement in African traditional religion'. It is a qualitative study of how Christians manage to be at the same time involved in African traditional religions, of which the Christian church, on the whole, disapproves. It lends insight into the ways in which individuals enact two different religions in their daily lives, focusing particularly on religious practices. It further aims to adopt a position of religious pluralism, representing the voices and perspectives of the peoples studied.
Author | : Humphrey Waweru |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-03-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9966040099 |
Download The Bible and African Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How can African theology survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order? Dr. Humphrey M. Wawe contributes here a sound theological reflection using the hitherto unused methodological paradigm of mapping the inroads in the transaction between the Bible and African culture.
Author | : Cephas N. Omenyo |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9401210578 |
Download Trajectories of Religion in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.