Trajectories of Religion in Africa

Essays in Honour of John S. Pobee
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3810-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations

The book, in the main, discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological education and assesses the relevance of the World Council of Churches. Other issues discussed in this segment relate to the interrelationships that exist between academic theology, ecumenism, and Christianity. The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, which set the agenda for world-wide mission in a promising manner in the 1920s, is also assessed in this section of the work.
The second segment, which covers Religion and Public Space, discusses works that examine the relationships between religion and power, religion and development, religion and traditional religious beliefs, and religion and practices in Africa. The third segment of the book treats Religion and Cultural Practices in African and how all these work out in couching out an African theology and African Christianity. Some of the issues discussed in this section related to African traditional philosophy, spiritism, and the interrelationships that exist between African Christianity and African Traditional Religion.
The last segment of the book discusses the issue of African biblical hermeneutics and specifically looks at contemporary hermeneutical approaches to biblical interpretations in Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Omenyo, Cephas N.

Anum, Eric B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Charles G. Palmer-Buckle: Foreword I
Jacob Olupona: Foreword II
Cephas N. Omenyo & Eric B. Anum: ‘All Things to All People’: A Festschrift in Honour of John Samuel Pobee
Part One: Mission, Ecumenism and Theological Education
Dietrich Werner: Challenges and Major Tasks for Ecumenical Theological Education in the 21st Century
Jan G. Platvoet: A Battle Lost or Won? The 1970-1975 Utrecht Ecumenical Experiment in Academic Theology
Kenneth R. Ross: Edinburgh 1910: Memory, Hope and Courage
Jan A.B. Jongeneel: ‘Christendom,’ ‘Christianity,’ and ‘Christianization’: Terminological and Theological Considerations
Fidelis Nkomazana: The Role of the Multi-Faith Religious Education Curriculum in Botswana’s Schools
Cephas N. Omenyo & Abraham N. O. Kwakye: Authentically African, Authentically Anglican
Part Two: Religion and Public Space
Ogbu U Kalu: Tangled Roots in the Mangrove Forest: The Cultural Landscape of Political Violence in Africa
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu: ‘God Bless our Homeland Ghana’: Religion and Politics in a Post-Colonial African State
Rabiatu Deinyo Ammah: ‘And they Must also Call unto the Way of the Lord with Wisdom’: The Perspective of a Muslim Woman on African Women in Inter-Faith Encounters
Rebecca Ganusah: The Church and Development: A Ghanaian Experience
Jan van Butselaar: Religion in Africa: Power for Life
Abamfo Atiemo: Fighting for the Rights of the Gods: Tradition, Religious Human Rights, and the Modern Nation-State in Africa – A Ghanaian Case Study
Part Three: Religion and Culture
Rose Mary Amenga-Etego: Critiquing African Traditional Philosophy of Chastity
Hans-Ruedi Weber: Biblical Faith and Culture
James Amanze: Conflict and Cooperation: The Interplay Between Christianity and African Traditional Religions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Theo Sundermeier: Spiritism: A Legitimate Model of Inculturation?
Part Four: The Bible in Africa
Musa W. Dube: ‘God Never Opened the Bible to Me’: Women Church Leaders in Botswana
Gerald West: Liberation Hermeneutics after Liberation in South Africa
Alice Matilda Nsiah & Eric Nii Bortey Anum: Hagar Sarah Allegory: An Intertexture Study of Gal 4:21-31 and its Application to the Ghanaian Context
John David Kwamena Ekem: Jacobus Capitein’s Contribution to Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics: A Case Study of his Translation of the Apostles’ Creed into Mfantse
Contributors