African Pentecostalism and world Christianity : essays in honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu / Nimi Wariboko, Adeshina Afolayan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Afolayan, Adeshina, editor.

Wariboko, Nimi, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostalism--Africa.

Pentecostalism.

Africa--Church history.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2020]

Summary:

"In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if not defined, by African Pentecostalism. The objective of this volume is to investigate and interrogate the critical junctures at which World Christianity invigorates and is invigorated by African Pentecostalism. The essays of the thinkers gathered here examine the general relationships between World Christianity and Africa and the specific interplays between World Christianity and African Pentecostalism. Scholars from multiple disciplines, continents, and countries evaluate how the theological scholarship and missional works of eminent African intellectual Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu have contributed to the scholarly understanding of how Global Christianity has been mediated by its reception in Africa. They also investigate how African Pentecostalism has been shaped by its contact with the diverse forms of Christianity in Africa and the rest of the world."--Publisher

Contents:

Introduction The worlding of Christianity in Africa and African Pentecostalism / Nimi Wariboko, Adeshina Afolayan

I. Christianity in history

Chapter 1. Bird's eye view of contemporary Christianity in Africa / Opoku Onyinah

Chapter 2. Independent, enthusiastic, and African: reframing the story of Christianity in Africa / Harvey C. Kwiyani

Chapter 3. From/to the ends of the earth: mission in the Spirit / Kirsteen Kim

Chapter 4. The first non-Jewish Christian was from Africa / Craig S. Keener

Chapter 5. Religious reforms and notions of gender in Pentecostal Christianity: a case of the Church of Pentecost / Charles Prempeh

Chapter 6. World Christianity and the global leadership crisis: forming servant leaders in the age of the strongman / Kenneth R. Ross

II. Spiritual reality, worldviews, and formations

Chapter 7. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu: a measured critique of Africa's use of the Holy Spirit's healing gifts / Trevor H.G. Smith

Chapter 8. Sighs and signs of the mind?: Pentecostalism, renewal, and a Ghanaian mind folk theory / Vivian Dzokoto

Chapter 9. One of the greatest prayer weapons ... : a religio-cultural practice of "libations" in Cameroon neo-Pentecostalism / Chammah J. Kaunda, Felix Kang Esoh

Chapter 10. Proclaiming Good News to the poor (Isa 61:1-2; Luke 4:18-19): Pentecostalism and social justice in Ghana / Patrick Kofi Amissah

III. Media, mediatization, and world Christianity

Chapter 11. Second generation Africans and the new media as agents of demystification in the African diaspora church / Caleb Nyanni

Chapter 12. Mass media and the dynamics between African Pentecostalism and African neo-traditionalism / Marleen de Witte

Chapter 13. Hallelujah testimonies: miracles, memory, and mediatization of Pentecostal performances / Oluwaseun Abimbola

IV. African Pentecostalism in context

Chapter 14. Rise up and walk!: The role of Pentecostals in economic development and poverty eradication / Philomena Njeru Nwaura

Chapter 15. The need for theologizing from the experience of the "other" in contemporary Christianity in Africa / Faith Lugazia

Chapter 16. Religion and development in European-African dialogue: exploring learning processes with independent and charismatic churches in Africa on sustainability and integral social development / Dietrich Werner

Chapter 17. African Pentecostalism and prosperity: continuity and discontinuity / Allan H. Anderson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781725266377

1725266377