Communities of faith in Africa and the African diaspora : in honor of Dr. Tite Tiénou : with additional essays on world Christianity / edited by Casely B. Essamuah and David K. Ngaruiya.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Essamuah, Casely B., editor.

Ngaruiya, David K., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Africa.

Christianity.

Africa--Church history.

Africa.

Africa--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 384 pages ) illustrations ;

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora. The essays span history, theology, anthropology, ecumenism, and missiology.Readers will be treated to fresh perspectives on African Pentecostal higher education, Pentecostalism and witchcraft in East Africa, Methodist camp meetings in Ghana, Ghanaian diaspora missions in Europe and North America, gender roles in South African Christian communities, HIV/AIDS ministries in Uganda, Japanese funerary rites, enculturation and contextualization principles of mission, and many other aspects of the Christian world mission.With essays from well-known scholars as well as young and emerging men and women in academia, Communities of Faith illuminates current realities of world Christianity and contributes to the scholarship of today's worldwide Christian witness.

Contents:

Foreword / Joel Carpenter

The journey of Tite Tiénou / friends, colleagues, and former students

"Enlarging Christian coasts": Pentecostalism and higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Wesleyan camp meeting history and the revitalization of Ghanaian Methodism / Paul Kwabena Boafo

African immigrant religions in the diaspora / Elias K. Bongmba

"Go ye into all the West": models of mission among Ghanaian Methodists in the diaspora / Casely B. Essamuah

New angles on African Christianity / Paul Kollman

The multifaceted genesis of the 2007-2008 postelection violence in Kenya / David K. Ngaruiya

How indigenous traders brought Christianity to northern Nigeria / Caleb O. Oladipo

Sickness and witches in northwestern Tanzania: listening to Pentecostal ministers / Steven D.H. Rasmussen

Gender roles and recruitment in southern African churches, 1996-2001 / Dana L. Robert

The role of personal friendships in effective cross-cultural Christian mission / Kenneth R. Ross

Ethiopian Orthodox christology: interacting with an ancient African perspective / Stephen Strauss

Along and frightened in Uganda: living in the shadow of HIV / Angela M. Wakhweya-Essamuah

African evangelists: the case of Apolo Kivebulaya / Emma Wild-Wood

The medium and the message / Miriam Adeney

Inculturation and the church's mission: theological and Trinitarian foundations / Stephen B. Bevans

Pre-Christendom faith in a post-Christendom world / Jonathan Bonk

World Christianity and the new ecumenical frontier / William R. Burrows

Funerary rites and ancestral roles in Japan: reassessing their (non- )religious character / How Chuang Chua

The 2008 Financial Crisis and the great commission / J. Nelson Jennings

Researching contextualization in churches influenced by missionaries / Robert J. Priest

"Please be extra vigilant": on being attentive to world Christianity / Cathy Ross

Global evangelical theology: "Luke theology" and the dialogue of the deaf / Mark Shaw

The 1860 Liverpool Conference on Missions / Andrew F. Walls

Asia and Latin America: taking the gospel to the "ends of the earth" / Allen Yeh.

Notes:

"A bibliography of the works of Tite Tiénou": pages 381-384.

Includes bibliographical references.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781630873073

1630873071