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Domesticating a Religious Import
The Jesuits and the Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
594 kr
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Catholic theologians have developed the relatively new term "inculturation" to discuss the old problem of adapting the church universal to specific local cultures. Europeans needed a thousand years to inculturate Christianity from its Judaic roots. Africans' efforts to make the church their own followed a similar process but in less than a century. Until now, there has been no book-length examination of the Catholic church's pastoral mission in Zimbabwe or of African Christians' efforts to inculturate the church.Ranging over the century after Jesuit missionaries first settled in what is now Zimbabwe, this enlightening book reveals two simultaneous and intersecting processes: the Africanization of the Catholic Church by African Christians and the discourse of inculturation promulgated by the Church. With great attention to detail, it places the history of African Christianity within the broader context of the history of religion in Africa. This illuminating work will contribute to current debates about the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe and throughout Africa.
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Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder. African and non-African scholars alike still struggle to establish the idea of African humanity, in all its diversity, and to move Africa beyond its historical role as the foil to the West.As this book shows, Africa's decolonization is an ongoing process across a range of fronts, and intellectuals—both African and non-African—have significant roles to play in that process. The essays collected here examine issues such as representation and retrospection; the roles of intellectuals in the public sphere; and the fundamental question of how to decolonize African knowledges. African Intellectuals and Decolonization outlines ways in which intellectual practice can serve to de-link Africa from its global representation as a debased, subordinated, deviant, and inferior entity.ContributorsLesley Cowling, University of the WitwatersrandNicholas M. Creary, University at AlbanyMarlene De La Cruz, Ohio UniversityCarolyn Hamilton, University of Cape TownGeorge Hartley, Ohio UniversityJanet Hess, Sonoma State UniversityT. Spreelin McDonald, Ohio UniversityEbenezer Adebisi Olawuyi, University of IbadanSteve Odero Ouma, University of NairobiOyeronke Oyewumi, State University of New Yorkat Stony BrookTsenay Serequeberhan, Morgan State University