Author: G. J. Wanjohi
Publisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565182219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Social and Religious Concerns of East Africa
Author: G. J. Wanjohi
Publisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565182219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565182219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Critiques of Christianity in African Literature
Author: Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966465801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966465801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
East African Expressions of Christianity
Author: Thomas T. Spear
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Tanzanian and US historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and church people challenge the assumption that Christianity in the region represents colonial and capitalist powers that helped subdue Africans. They show instead how Africans have spread the religion among themselves, have seized control of their own spiritual destinies, and used their religious beliefs to improve their individual and collective lives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Tanzanian and US historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and church people challenge the assumption that Christianity in the region represents colonial and capitalist powers that helped subdue Africans. They show instead how Africans have spread the religion among themselves, have seized control of their own spiritual destinies, and used their religious beliefs to improve their individual and collective lives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Christian Spirituality in Africa
Author: Sung Kyu Park
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621895254
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621895254
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Religion & Politics in East Africa
Author: Holger Bernt Hansen
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Religious activities have been of continuing importance in the rise of protest against postcolonial governments in Eastern Africa. Issues considered include attempts by government to "manage" religious affairs in both Muslim and Christian areas; religious denominations as surrogate oppositions to one-party-state regimes and as advocates of human rights; Islamic fundamentalism before and after the end of the Cold War; and Christian churches as NGOs in the age of structural adjustment.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Religious activities have been of continuing importance in the rise of protest against postcolonial governments in Eastern Africa. Issues considered include attempts by government to "manage" religious affairs in both Muslim and Christian areas; religious denominations as surrogate oppositions to one-party-state regimes and as advocates of human rights; Islamic fundamentalism before and after the end of the Cold War; and Christian churches as NGOs in the age of structural adjustment.
Church and Politics in East Africa
Author: Henry Okullu
Publisher: Uzima Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher: Uzima Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Re-Imaging Modernity
Author: Gregg A. Okesson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621899292
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya. It walks into churches, listens to sermons, dances to music, and interviews the people sitting in the pews, all with the aim of understanding how spiritual power enables these churches to function as agents within their contemporary society. Ecclesiastical communities in Africa draw upon divine power in order to engage in modernity-related topics. Humans are not unresponsive to global flows of meaning; they are integrative agents who fashion their world by living in it. The kind of modernity arising from these churches does not blindly follow Western forms, but flows from its own internal logic in which spiritual power occupies central hermeneutical function. Theological resources contribute to the formation of sociological expressions. Divine power pertains directly to human constructs, which then allows the churches to actively "image" God for the development of unique forms of modernity arising on the continent.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621899292
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya. It walks into churches, listens to sermons, dances to music, and interviews the people sitting in the pews, all with the aim of understanding how spiritual power enables these churches to function as agents within their contemporary society. Ecclesiastical communities in Africa draw upon divine power in order to engage in modernity-related topics. Humans are not unresponsive to global flows of meaning; they are integrative agents who fashion their world by living in it. The kind of modernity arising from these churches does not blindly follow Western forms, but flows from its own internal logic in which spiritual power occupies central hermeneutical function. Theological resources contribute to the formation of sociological expressions. Divine power pertains directly to human constructs, which then allows the churches to actively "image" God for the development of unique forms of modernity arising on the continent.
Religions in Eastern Africa Under Globalization
Author: J. N. Kanyua Mugambi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastearn
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastearn
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Faith in Schools
Author: Amy Stambach
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804773459
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American Evangelical involvement in public life and schools. In this first-hand account, Amy Stambach examines missionary involvement in East Africa from the perspectives of both Americans and East Africans. While Evangelicals frame their work in terms of spreading Christianity, critics see it as destroying traditional culture. Challenging assumptions on both sides, this work reveals a complex and ever-evolving exchange between Christian college campuses in the U.S., where missionaries train, and schools in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Providing real insight into the lives of school children in East Africa, this book charts a new course for understanding the goals on both sides and the global connections forged in the name of faith.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804773459
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American Evangelical involvement in public life and schools. In this first-hand account, Amy Stambach examines missionary involvement in East Africa from the perspectives of both Americans and East Africans. While Evangelicals frame their work in terms of spreading Christianity, critics see it as destroying traditional culture. Challenging assumptions on both sides, this work reveals a complex and ever-evolving exchange between Christian college campuses in the U.S., where missionaries train, and schools in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Providing real insight into the lives of school children in East Africa, this book charts a new course for understanding the goals on both sides and the global connections forged in the name of faith.
The Historical Study of African Religion
Author: Terence O. Ranger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520031791
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520031791
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description