African Perspectives On Culture And World Christianity
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Author | : Joseph Ogbonnaya |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2017-05-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1443891592 |
Unlike the global North, “the ferment of Christianity” in the global South, among the majority of world people, has been astronomical. Despite the shift in the center of gravity of Christianity to the global South, intra-ecclesial tensions globally remain those of the relationship of culture to religion. The questions posed revolve around to what extent Western Christianity should be adapted to local cultures. Should we talk of Christianity in non-Western contexts or of majority world Christianity? Is it appropriate to describe the shift as the emergence of global Christianity or world Christianity? Should Christianity in the global South mimic Christianity in the global North, or can it be different in the light of the diversity of these cultures? Can Africans, Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans and North Americans – the entire global community – speak of God in the same way? This book is devoted to examining varieties of the intercultural process in world Christianity. It understands culture broadly as a common meaning upon which communities’ social order is organized. Culture in this sense is the whole life of people. It is the integrator of the filial bond holding people together and the various institutional structures – economic, technological, political and legal – that guarantee peace and survival in societies, states, and nations, both locally and internationally. As this book shows, the centrality of culture for world Christianity equally showcases the important position the scale of values occupies in world Christianity.
Author | : Tim Hartman |
Publisher | : Langham Global Library |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2021-09-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1839734892 |
Kwame Bediako was one of the great African theologians of his generation. Challenging the assumption that Christianity is a Western religion, he presented a non-Western foundation for theological reflection, expanded the Christian theological imagination, and offered a path forward for post-Christendom theologies. Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity is the first full-length introduction to Bediako’s theology. It engages Bediako’s central concerns with identity – specifically what it means to be African and Christian in the aftermath of the failures of colonialism – the relationship of theology and culture, and the need of indigenous expressions of Christian faith for the health of theological reflection worldwide. Challenging stereotypical perceptions of African Christianity and pressing readers to interrogate their own theological convictions in light of cultural and societal presuppositions, this book examines the gift of Bediako’s work not just for Africa but for the world.
Author | : Lamin O. Sanneh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Does religion reinforce the balkanization of cultural attitudes or does it help people transcend their culture? A noted scholar of world Christianity, Lamin Sanneh offers Westerners a perspective on such questions, a way to test the religio-cultural water and air in which they live. He shows how modernity has made of moderns "cultural believers" and "religious agnostics, " and how the stubborn refusal to confront this bias in both secular and religious culture depletes both Christianity and Western culture.
Author | : Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2010-07-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830837051 |
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 | : Adriaan van Klinken |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2021-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0197644155 |
Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the opposition to homosexuality and LGBTI rights in African societies. This book nuances that picture, by drawing attention to discourses emerging in Africa itself that engage with religion, specifically Christianity, in progressive and innovative ways--in support of sexual diversity and the quest for justice for LGBTI people. The authors show not only that African Christian traditions harbor strong potential for countering conservative anti-LGBTI dynamics; but also that this potential has already begun to be realized, by various thinkers, activists and movements across the continent. Their ten case studies document how leading African writers are reimagining Christian thought; how several Christian-inspired groups are transforming religious practice; and how African cultural production creatively appropriates Christian beliefs and symbols. In short, the book explores Christianity as a major resource for a liberating imagination and politics of sexuality and social justice in Africa today. Foregrounding African agency and progressive religious thought, this highly original intervention counterbalances our knowledge of secular approaches to LGBTI rights in Africa, and powerfully decolonizes queer theory, theology and politics.
Author | : Wilbur O'Donovan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9781594521263 |
Author | : Kwame Bediako |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1610974409 |
Kwame Bediako examines the question of Christian identity in the context of the Greco-Roman culture of the early Roman Empire. He then addresses the modern African predicament of quests for identity and integration. Theology and Identity was one of the finalists for the 1992 HarperCollins Religious Book Award.
Author | : Sung Kyu Park |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-02-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1620324652 |
Christian Spirituality in Africa holistically approaches the convergence of East/West, and Christian/Traditional African religions. Its theological, historical, and anthropological perspectives contribute to a balanced understanding of Christian spirituality/transformation in an African context.
Author | : James Leland Cox |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hinga, Teresia |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608337146 |
"For two decades Teresia Hinga has been a leading voice in the fields of African Christianity, women in African theology, and gender and ethics in the African context. Now, African, Christian, Feminist brings together Hinga's own selections from her extensive body of work, a number of them not previously published. A valuable resource for scholars and students alike, African, Christian, Feminist reveals the depth and breadth of a unique voice in theology, ethics, and gender and African studies"--