Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion

The Search for Abundant Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty, wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-22
Mått:160 x 237 x 26 mm
Vikt:608 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:338
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:Esther Acolatse
ISBN:9781498561273

Utforska kategorier

Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Stan Chu Ilo is research professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University and president of Canadian Samaritans for Africa.

Recensioner i media

This volume is a rich repository of fresh research on African Christianity. It offers valuable new readings of religion in Africa, missions history, and the relationship between Africa and the West. More than this, the volume invites a reinterpretation of global Christianity that restores Africa to its rightfully prominent role in the historical narrative. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Africa or global Christianity.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Esther AcolatseIntroduction: “The Search for Abundant Life in African Christian Religion: Historical Reinterpretation of Christian Mission in Africa”—Stan Chu IloAfrican Christian Religions and the Quest for Health, Healing and Wholeness1. “African Christian Religion: Its Scope in the Global Context”—Caleb O. Oladipo 2. “In Quest of Wholeness: African Christians in the New Christianity” —David Tonghou Ngong3. “Searching for Healing in a Miraculous Stream: The Fate of God’s People in Africa” — Stan Chu IloAfrican Pentecostalism and the Ecology of Sickness and Evil4. “Eradicating Evil in the Search for Practices of Hope in Africa: Witchcraft Beliefs and Accusations in Contemporary Ghanaian Christianity”—Cyril G. K. Fayose5. “Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal as a Socio-Religious Phenomenon for Transformation in Africa”— Clement Majawa6. “Taking Africa out of the African: Eco-Community, the Christian Heritage of Empire and Neo-Pentecostalism in Africa”—Ben-Willie Kwaku GoloMission, Money, Wealth, and the Search for Abundant Life7. “The African Peoples and Money: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”—Nathanaël Soede8. “The Place of Money in Mission Between Africa and the West: A Personal Narrative”—Jim Harries9. “Nigeria, Europe and Christian Mission: Models of Economic Collaboration in the 21st Century”—Felix Enegho10. “The African Church and the Impact of Contemporary Fundraising and Sustainability”—Levi Nkwocha 11. “To Recycle or Not to Recycle: An Ethical Question in Africa's Relation with the West”—Aloysius Ochasi, Peter Clark, and Michael Barkowski12. “In the Wake of Overt Religiosity: A Critical and Appreciative Perspective on Religion as a Force for Social Transformation and Development in African society”—Obaji M. Agbiji and Ignatius Swart