Neo-Pentecostalism

Neo-Pentecostalism
Author: Nelson Kalombo Ngoy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532664702

For centuries, Pentecostalism has played a significant role in oppressively shaping the life of formerly colonized people of Africa. Moreover, its theologies have perpetuated neocolonial policies developed through the lens of colonial legacies rooted in la mission civilizatrice (mission to civilize). However, since the 1980s, Neo-Pentecostalism is increasingly reshaping the Congolese Christendom. It sanctions the theologies of a prosperity gospel rooted in an uncritical reading of the Bible and self-theologizing informed by a lack of literal, contextual translation effects. This book argues that the prosperity gospel bankrupts its adherents--in this case, the vulnerable, impoverished sections of Sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly the Postcolonial Congo--and instead offers a balanced theological reflection that broadens Neo-Pentecostal studies with an African voice encouraging the rewriting and rereading of the story of redemptive mission. The research engages a paradigm shift within global missions and world Christianity, or the history of missions as the platform to negotiate literal, prophetic, and contextual translation and retransmission of the biblical gospel. It is critical to reclaim and reestablish a hermeneutic of mixed methodologies and construct a contextual and critical interpretation of the Bible in the Congo. To avoid the African assumption of cultural baggage, which affects how the Congolese interpret the Bible, the interpreter has to be neutral and experience the voice of Christ in the text instead of the voice of Congolese culture; they must be a prophetic voice to reconstruct the authentic meaning of the salvific story.

L'interminable crise du Congo-Kinshasa

L'interminable crise du Congo-Kinshasa
Author: André Kabanda Kana
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 2296378404

L'histoire mouvementée du Congo-Kinshasa a causé des milliers de victimes depuis la colonisation belge. D'outils de production sous la colonisation, les Congolais sont devenus les sujets d'une dictature néocolonialiste qui a dévasté tant le pays que les esprits. Les colonisateurs ont leur part de responsabilité, mais aussi les élites de l'indépendance et celle d'après la Conférence Nationale Souveraine. Voici l'histoire des 100 dernières années du Congo-Kinshasa.

L'interminable Crise Du Congo-Kinshasa

L'interminable Crise Du Congo-Kinshasa
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN: 9782336266596

"L'histoire mouvementée du Congo-Kinshasa a causé des milliers de victimes depuis la colonisation belge. D'outils de production sous la colonisation, les Congolais sont devenus les sujets d'une dictature néocolonialiste qui a dévasté tant le pays que les esprits. Les colonisateurs ont leur part de responsabilité, mais aussi les élites de l'indépendance et celle d'après la Conférence Nationale Souveraine. Voici l'histoire des 100 dernières années du Congo-Kinshasa."--

The African Stakes of the Congo War

The African Stakes of the Congo War
Author: J. Clark
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2002-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1403982449

The African Stakes in the Congo War analyzes the Congo conflict by looking at the roles played by various states and factors in the conflict. Part I introduces the conflict by showing the historical and regional context of the war. Part II examines those states and groups that worked to support the Kaliba regime; Part III examines the rebel groups working to overthrow Kabila and those intervening on their behalf. Part IV looks at the role of supposedly neutral states such as South Africa and looks at the social and economic effects of the war by examining trans-state factors such as rebel groups, arms trading, and economic consequences. The collection includes both African and US/UK scholars, and covers the recent transfer of power from Laurent to Joseph Kabila.

Signs of the Spirit

Signs of the Spirit
Author: Tony Perman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2020-06-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0252052137

In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity. Perman's encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to experience life's milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a group. Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future. The result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the immediacy of musical experience and the forces that transform ceremonial performance into emotions and community.

UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition

UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition
Author: Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520066960

"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description

Prolonged Wars

Prolonged Wars
Author: Karl P. Magyar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780898758344

The authors of the articles in this anthology examine the underlying impact of the cold war on protracted conflict in Africa and Asia. These area specialists examine the factors that produced prolonged conflict and what each side in them considered the cause(s) of these struggles. They analyze the reasons for "success" and "failure" in each of these regional conflicts.