Christianity in Africa and the African diaspora : the appropriation of a scattered heritage / edited by Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, Klaus Hock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964-

Gerloff, Roswith I. H.

Hock, Klaus, 1955-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Continuum religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Africa--Congresses.

Christianity.

African diaspora.

Africa.

African diaspora--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 354 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2008]

Summary:

Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora offers new resources for the interpretation and analysis of African Christian movements. It draws attention to a number of key issues, including the translatability of the Christian faith, the process of contextualization in various cultures, the place and role of indigenous agencies, the global impact of contemporary African Christian expressions, its influence on ecumenical relations and inter-religious encounters, and its way of shaping new religious identities and landscapes in response to power relations and artificial boundaries. Topics covered include the concept of diaspora, deconstructing colonial mission, conversion, African cosmologies, African retentions, female leadership dynamics, liberation theology, a new discourse around HIV/AIDS, transnational religious networks, pentecostal/charismatic movements, charismatic renewal within former mission churches, dynamics of reverse mission, outreach via cyberspace, specific studies on Anglican, Baptist, Adventist and Kimbanguist missions, and the need for intercultural and interdenominational bridge building.

Continuum Religious Studies

Contents:

Political or spiritual partition : the impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian missions in Africa / Olayemi Akinwumi

Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent / Jonathan J. Bonk

Colonization in Africa : the local and global implications for Christianity in contemporary Nigeria / Deji Ayegboyin

The role of the churches in the struggle for liberation in Southern Africa : a thematic survey / Ezra Chitando

Deconstructing colonial mission : new missiological perspectives in African Christianity / Abraham Akrong

Baptists in Africa : a missionary church in action / Richard V. Pierard

The empire fights back : the invention of African Anglicanism / Kevin Ward

Imperial war-zones and frontiers of conversion / Andreas Heuser

Paradigmatic shift : reconstruction of female leadership roles in the new generation churches in south-western Nigeria / Bolaji Olukemi Bateye

From holy ground to virtual reality : Aladura gender practices in cyberspace : an African diaspora perspective / Deidre Helen Crumbley

Petticoat partition or faith-full friendship?: motives and outcomes of British women's immigration to Africa from the scramble to the present / Deborah Gaitskell

HIV/AIDS discourse and the quest for a rebirth in Africa : a theological perspective / Nico Botha

Transnational religious networks and indigenous pentecostal missionary enterprises in the west African coastal region / Matthews A. Ojo

The role of charismatic Christianity in reshaping the religious scene in Africa : the case of Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura

"I will put my breath in you, and you will come to life" : charismatic renewal in Ghanaian mainline churches and its implications for African "diasporean" Christianity / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Churches of the Spirit : the pentecostal/charismatic movement and Africa's contribution to the renewal of Christianity / Roswith Gerloff

Elements of African religious spiritual practices in African American worship : resounding practical theological implications / Antipas L. Harris

Religion on the move : transcultural perspectives : discourses on diaspora religion between category formation and the quest for religious identity / Klaus Hock

Who do they think they are?: mental images and the unfolding of an African diaspora in Germany / Afe Adogame

"... the land which the Lord your God giveth you" : two churches founded by African migrants in Oststadt, Germany / Evalgelos Karagiannis and Nina Glick Schiller

Colonial politicization of religion : residual effects on the ministry of African-led churches in Britain / Dapo Asaju

The implication of mission from a black Seventh-Day Adventist perspective, with reference to Britain, the Caribbean, and Africa / Herbert Griffiths

Kimbanguism as a migrants' religion in Europe / Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot

The position of African Christians in the Netherlands / Alle G. Hoekema

An ecumenical challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century : koinonia vs. convivence / Benjamin Simon

The "program for cooperation between German and foreign language churches" and African churches in the Rhein-Ruhr-region : developments from 1999 / Ursula Harfst.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held in 2003 in Berlin, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781847063175

1847063179

OCLC:

224442367

Publisher Number:

99936284805