Religious Conversion: An African Perspective Brendan Carmody (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carmody, Brendan Patrick, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversion--Islam.

Conversion.

Conversion--Christianity.

Conversion--Social aspects--Africa.

Africa--Religion.

Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Lusaka, Zambia : Gadsden Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

Religious Conversion: An African Perspective includes a selection of key texts which are not easily accessible elsewhere. Most of the chapters discuss the long-standing thesis of Robin Horton who argues that religious change results from social transformation. The contributors provide different perspectives on what remains an ongoing provocative, though inconclusive debate. The book has chapters on conversion in Africa from such authorities as Robin Horton, Humphrey Fisher, and Richard Gray. It also contains chapters on Zambia by Elizaebeth Colson, Brendan Carmody, Austin Cheyeka, Felix Phiri and W Van Binsbergen. This collection of chapters provides an introduction to the discussion surrounding the query: Did the Christian and Muslim messages bring something fundamentally new to the African religious horizon? What has indigenisation meant? What is the role of traditional religion?

Contents:

Mission history in Africa: new perspectives on an encounter / Robert Strayer

African conversion: a historical overview / Brendan Carmody

African conversion / Robin Horton

Conversion reconsidered: some historical aspects of religious conversion in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher

On the rationality of conversion, part I / Robin Horton

On the rationality of conversion, part II / Robin Horton

The juggernaut's apologia: conversion to Islam in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher

Christianity and religious change in Africa / Richard Gray

Leza into God, God into Leza / Elizabeth Colson

Conversion and school at Chikuni: 1905-1939 / Brendan Carmody

Catholic conversion and school in Africa today / Brendan Carmody

The nature and role of conversion in Zambia / Brendan Carmody

African conversion: entering the fold of Islam / Felix J. Phiri

Conversion to Pentecostalism in Zambia / Austin M. Cheyeka

Religious change in Zambia / W. Van Binsbergen

Encounter between advocate and convert / Lewis R. Rambo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789982241168

9982241168

OCLC:

1132225627