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Christianity and social change in contemporary Africa. Volume 1 / edited by Francis B. Nyamnjoh & Joel A. Carpenter.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Africa.
- Christianity.
- Social change--Africa.
- Social change.
- Social change--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 235 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2020.
- Summary:
- This volume brings together seven empirically grounded contributions by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. The authors explore the social impact of religious innovation and competition in present day Africa. They represent a selection from an interdisciplinary initiative that made 23 research grants for theologians and social scientists to study Christianity and social change in contemporary Africa. These contributions focus on a variety of dynamics in contemporary African religion (mostly Christianity), including gender, health and healing, social media, entrepreneurship, and inter-religious borrowing and accommodation. The volume seeks to enhance understanding of religion's vital presence and power in contemporary Africa. It reveals problems as well as possibilities, notably some ethical concerns and psychological maladies that arise in some of these new movements, notably neo-Pentecostal and militant fundamentalist groups. Yet the contributions do not fixate on African problems and victimization. Instead, they explore sources of African creativity, resiliency and agency. The book calls on scholars of religion and religiosity in Africa to invest new conceptual and methodological energy in understanding what it means to be actively religious in Africa today.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Christianity and social change in contemporary Africa / Francis B. Nyamnjoh & Joel A. Carpenter
- Women without limits and limited women : Pentecostal women navigating between empowerment and disempowerment in Kenya / Damaris Seleina Parsitau
- Religious collaboration enhances patient satisfaction among faith-based groups and health facilities in western Kenya / Mary N. Getui, Nema C. Aluku, & William T. Story
- Is contemporary Christianity promoting or hindering mental health in Africa? An exploration of the impact of charismatic church activities and doctrines on the mental well-being of selected Ghanaian congregants / Joana Salifu Yendork, Lily Kpobi, & Elizabeth Anokyewaa Sarfo
- New imaginations of youth agency : Boko Haram and the innovative gospel of terror in Nigeria / Edlyne E. Anugwom
- 'Battling for souls : contesting for space'? African traditional religions and Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe / Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga
- Religious innovation and competition amidst urban social change : Pretoria case study / Stephan de Beer & R. Drew Smith
- "When are you going to change those stones to phones?" Social media appropriation by Pentecostal churches in Cape Town / Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789956551408
- 9956551406
- OCLC:
- 1159724128
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