Christianity and the African Imagination: Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings: 23 (STUDIES OF RELIGION IN AFRICA) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 9004116680 ISBN 13: 9789004116689

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2001

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Críticas:

'Facing competition within the religious market-places of the world has ... always been the lot of both the missionaries and the churches they have helped to establish, with or without the spur of capitalist economics. That this was the case owes much to the African imagination; that it is now widely accepted is likewise the achievement of Adrian Hastings and the wider scholarship represented in this excellent volume.' Andrew Porter, King's College.

Reseña del editor:

During the twentieth-century, Christendom shifted its centre of gravity to the Southern Hemisphere, Africa becoming the most significant area of church growth. This volume explores Christianity's advance across the continent, and its capturing of the African imagination. From the medieval Catholic Kingdom of Kongo to a transnational Pentecostal movement in post-colonial Zimbabwe, the chapters explore how African agents - priests and prophets, martyrs and missionaries, evangelists and catechists - have seized Christianity and made it theirs. Emphasizing popular religion, the book shows how the Christian ideas and texts, practices and symbols, which have been adapted by Africans, help them accept existential passions and empower them through faith to deal with material concerns for health and wealth, and to overcome evil.

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004116680
• ISBN 13: 9789004116689
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424
• Herausgeber: Maxwell David, Lawrie Ingrid