Robin Lamburn--from a Missionary's Notebook
| Author | : Noel Quinton King |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Christianity |
| ISBN | : |
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Christianity and African Culture
| Author | : Klaus Fiedler |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2023-08-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004664637 |
The common charge laid against missionaries that they are destroyers of African culture is shown to be untrue of the missionaries treated in this book, who worked with considerable success to integrate Christianity and African culture. The author examines the endeavours of the missionaries from the perspective of the local Christians, who were not themselves interested in Africanization as such. One can thus find some missionaries defending - against the elected African Church leadership - the right of the Chagga Christians to circumcise their daughters, and Nyakyusa Christians refusing to use African tunes because the missionaries - influenced by National Socialism - professed both love for African culture and White superiority. This informative book, based on local and archival research at Daressalam University, is eminently readable. It features the first historical study of Bruno Gutmann, and provides case study material for teaching.
The Story of Faith Missions
| Author | : Klaus Fiedler |
| Publisher | : OCMS |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781870345187 |
An African Worldview
| Author | : Ian D. Dicks |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9990887519 |
In this book Ian Dicks informs the reader about the ways in which the Yawo of Malawi view the world. The Yawo are predominantly Muslim, yet many maintain strong links with their traditional religion. They are a largely oral society, teaching and reinforcing their beliefs and practices using oral literature, which includes myths, proverbs, proverbial stories, songs of advice and prayers at various stages of the life cycle, particularly during initiation events. Ian Dicks describes in detail the Yawo's material world, customs, beliefs and rituals, and juxtaposes these with Yawo oral literature. He then examines them under six worldview categories, the result being a rich description of the way in which the Yawo see the world. This book is not an armchair study but has the feel of being written by an eyewitness, by someone who has had first-hand experience of the subject and who seeks to describe this in a manner which is sensitive to the Yawo and their culture.
Conflicted Power in Malawian Christianity
| Author | : Fiedler, Klaus |
| Publisher | : Mzuni Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2015-12-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9990802491 |
The volume constitutes Klaus Fiedler's crowning contribution to scholarship. Essays in the first half of the book focus on Malawian Christianity and how contrasting Powers, Gospel and Secular, engage each other, creating social, political and cultural conflict in the process. In the second half, Fiedler examines general missiological themes. These essays provide a broader missiological background, offering a theoretical framework necessary for appreciating the essays in the first half. He concludes with a chapter that reviews selected seminal books on themes under study. Throughout the volume Fiedler applies the "restorationist revival theory" he constructed in The Story of Faith Missions, an earlier 1994 work putting emphasis on non classical missions and churches, not systematically covered in earlier scholarship. This volume, the first of its kind on Malawian Christianity, will long remain an indispensable text for those interested in Missiology and Malawian Christianity.
Women, Presbyterianism and Patriarchy
| Author | : Isabel Apawo Phiri |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Chewa (African people) |
| ISBN | : 9990887284 |
This is the first book by a Malawian woman theologian. First released in 1997 it won an honorable mention in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1998 and is now updated here with a new introduction by the author. The study traces the struggles and contribution of Chewa women to the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Amongst the topics are female mediumships in traditional religion, post-missionary developments in Chigwirizano, womens attempts to achieve some public manifestation of their personal relatioship to God in open ministry, and the current women's organisation in Nkhoma Synod. Dr. Isabel Apawo Phiri is in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Malawi.
The Politics of Poverty
| Author | : Felicitas Becker |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2019-06-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108496938 |
An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.
The Church in Africa, 1450-1950
| Author | : Adrian Hastings |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 721 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198263996 |
Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.
Faith at the Frontiers of Knowledge
| Author | : R. Ross |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-05-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9996098192 |
Unity of knowledge is not easily achieved in todays Africa where often there is little conscious interaction between traditional beliefs, Christian faith and modern secularity. The challenge is taken up in this book as scholars from a variety of disciplines wrestle with the relation of faith and science at the frontiers of knowledge. The results are important alike for the integrity of faith, for scienti?c advance and for the attainment of creative cultural unity in society. Readers with such concerns at heart will ?nd much food for thought as they traverse the broad frontiers explored in these wide-ranging essays.
Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa
| Author | : Fiedler, Klaus |
| Publisher | : Mzuni Press |
| Total Pages | : 525 |
| Release | : 2018-03-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9996060462 |
It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.
