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Author: Bengt Sundkler
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780227172339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious and Social Backgrounds of the Zulus -- Rise of the Independent Church Movement -- Government Policy -- Church and Community -- Leader and Follower -- Worship and Healing -- New Wine in Old Wineskins.
Author: Bengt G. M. Sundkler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0429942532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1948 and then updated in 1961 outlines the religious and social background of the Zulus and discusses the rise of the Independent Church Movement. It examines the organization and inner workings of the different Churches, their forms of worship, and the personalities of their leaders. It also analyses the blend of old and new which appears in Zulu interpretations of some aspects of Christian doctrine.
Author: Bengt Sundkler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bengt Gustaf Malcolm Sundkler
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 381
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ulrich Berner
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9783447050029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume comprises case studies of five centuries of European encounters with and imaginations of Africa encompassing her triple religious heritage: African Traditional Religions, Christianity and Islam. The introductory chapters outline the challenges and present overviews; some of them also analyze the early accounts of European travelers and missionaries. The following contributions examine the lasting legacy of the European Enlightenment in employing an ambivalent language of human equality and universalism, while in actual fact consigning Africa to an inferior position. It has been difficult for western scholars to divorce themselves wholly from the perceptions thus established. However, there have been quite different approaches. This is indicated in the papers discussing the role and impact of influential European academics (scholars of religion, theologians, historians and social scientists) during the colonial and postcolonial period. Other contributions examine specific institutional centers of African religious studies in Europe. The concluding chapters critically assess European approaches and their use for the study of religion in Africa from an African perspective.
Author: Bengt Gustav Malcolm Sundkler
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 381
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2002-10-02
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780830826889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVeli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides an up-to-date survey and analysis of the major ecclesiological traditions, the most important theologians, and a number of contextual approaches to both the unity and the diversity of ecclesiastic understandings and practices.
Author: Ilana van Wyk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 113991717X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of 'emotions', that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are 'useless' in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.
Author: Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2024-01-29
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 3031491599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between prophecy and politics in South African Pentecostalism. The role and the power of prophecy in enhancing the presence of politicians in the church square are unpacked through historical examples, as well as case studies of contemporary prophets. Solomon Kgatle argues that the influence of prophecy in politics has the potential to weaken the prophetic voice of the church in general and the Pentecostal movement in particular. He proposes a Pentecostal political theology of prophecy. This theology is developed by taking into cognizance the theoretical and theological frameworks of prophetic imagination and pneumatological imagination. In addition, this theology seeks a balance between prophecy and power and prophecy and sovereignty.
Author: Bengt Sundkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-04
Total Pages: 1268
ISBN-13: 9780521583428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.
