African Traditional Religion Versus Christianity
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Author | : John Chitakure |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 149824419X |
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 | : Cornelius Olowola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This book provides a new, constructive and critical approach to African traditional religion, from the standpoint of Christian faith.
Author | : Elia Shabani Mligo |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2013-08-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1621898245 |
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 | : John A. T. Robinson |
Publisher | : SCM Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0334053501 |
On first publication in the 1960s, "Honest to God" did more than instigate a passionate debate about the nature of Christian belief in a secular revolution. It epitomised the revolutionary mood of the era and articulated the anxieties of a generation.
Author | : Bregje de Kok |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Richard J. Gehman |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : 9789966253545 |
Author | : John S. Mbiti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9789966888310 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 2162 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 1496424719 |
The Africa Study Bible brings together 350 contributors from over 50 countries, providing a unique African perspective. It's an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history, and culture, with special attention to the African context. Each feature was planned by African leaders to help readers grow strong in Jesus Christ by providing understanding and instruction on how to live a good and righteous life--Publisher.
Author | : E. Bọlaji Idowu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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.