L'effervescence religieuse en Afrique
L'effervescence religieuse en Afrique

Author: SERAPHIN Gilles, DROZ Yvan, MAUPEU Hervé, MEDARD Jean-françois, DE ROSNY Eric

Publisher: KARTHALA Editions

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 2811138900

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A Douala ou à Nairobi, au Cameroun ou au Kenya, les différents mouvements composant le christianisme (protestantisme, catholicisme, nouveaux mouvements religieux..)sont en ébullition. A l'aide d'études minutieuses (contexte politique et social, nature et forme des mouvements étudiés), les cinq auteurs de cet ouvrage dessinent un panorama diversifié de l'expression religieuse chrétienne sur ces divers sites. Ces recherches comparatives de terrain offrent ainsi un tableau complexe et vivant qui permet de comprendre les origines et la nature de l'effervescence religieuse chrétienne africaine actuelle.

L'effervescence religieuse en Afrique
L'effervescence religieuse en Afrique

Author: Seraphin Gilles

Publisher: KARTHALA Editions

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 2811122222

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A Douala ou à Nairobi, au Cameroun ou au Kenya, les différents mouvements composant le christianisme (protestantisme, catholicisme, nouveaux mouvements religieux...) sont en ébullition. A l'aide d'études minutieuses (contexte politique et social, nature et forme des mouvements étudiés), les cinq auteurs de cet ouvrage dessinent un panorama diversifié de l'expression religieuse chrétienne sur ces divers sites. Yvan Droz, ethnologue, étudie les conditions d'apparition puis d'expansion des mouvements pentecôtistes et millénaristes à Nairobi ; Hervé Maupeu, politologue, analyse les rapports entre l'Église catholique et la démocratisation kenyane depuis 1992 ; Éric de Rosny, anthropologue, passe en revue l'implantation des mouvements pentecôtistes, millénaristes et philosophiques à Douala ; Jean-François Médard, politologue, se consacre à une étude historique et politique du processus d'implantation des mouvements protestants dans le Cameroun sous mandat puis indépendant ; Gilles Séraphin, sociologue, synthétise l'ensemble de ces recherches en déterminant les divergences et les convergences entre Douala et Nairobi dans l'expression religieuse chrétienne. Ces recherches comparatives de terrain offrent ainsi un tableau complexe et vivant qui permet de comprendre les origines et la nature de l'effervescence religieuse chrétienne africaine actuelle.

L'effervescence religieuse en Afrique : crise ou vitalité de la foi ?
L'effervescence religieuse en Afrique : crise ou vitalité de la foi ?

Author: Jules Muanda Kienga

Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan

Published: 2015-08-15

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 2336388928

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On observe en Afrique un engouement pour une religiosité caractérisée par la quête de la prospérité, de la guérison, du succès et du miraculeux qui a imprégné en grande partie l'imaginaire collectif africain. Elle est devenue un mode de croire et de penser, d'agir et de réagir d'une bonne partie de la population africaine. Cet ouvrage voudrait scruter, assainir et réorienter la religiosité africaine afin qu'elle ne soit pas source d'aliénation mais un aiguillon du progrès des peuples d'Afrique.

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Publisher: Editions Publibook

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Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 2342158610

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Butinage
Butinage

Author: Yonatan N. Gez

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1487538995

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Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed by the authors metaphorically to refer to the "to-ing and fro-ing" of believers between religious institutions. Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as existing at the meeting points of religious-institutional rules and narratives, social norms, and individual agency and practice. Drawing on anglophone, francophone, and lusophone academic traditions, Butinage is dedicated to a dialogue between ethnographic findings and theoretical ideas, and explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity.

Traditional Churches, Born Again Christianity, and Pentecostalism
Traditional Churches, Born Again Christianity, and Pentecostalism

Author: Yonatan N. Gez

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-08

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 3319906410

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In Kenya's vibrant urban religious landscape, where Pentecostal and traditional churches of various orientations live side by side, religious identity tends to overflow a single institutional affiliation. While Kenya’s Christianity may offer modes of coping with the fragilities of urban life, it is subject to repeated crises and schisms, often fueled by rumors and accusations of hypocrisy. In order to understand the unfolding of Kenyans’ dynamic religious identities, and inspired by the omnipresent distinction between ‘religious membership’ and ‘church visits,’ Yonatan N. Gez considers the complementary relations between a center of religious affiliation and expansion towards secondary practices. Building on this basic distinction, the book develops a theoretical innovation in the form of the ‘religious repertoire’ model, which maps individuals’ religious identities in terms of three intertwined degrees of practice.

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon

Author: Mark Dike DeLancey

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-15

Total Pages: 831

ISBN-13: 1538119684

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Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.

Neoliberal Bandwagonism. Civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon
Neoliberal Bandwagonism. Civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon

Author: Piet Konings

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9956558230

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While neoliberals typically view civil society organizations as vital channels for the implementation of economic and political reforms, they are also inclined to blame the politics of belonging for the poor record of these reforms. Piet Konings rejects such notions and argues that the relationship between civil society and the politics of belonging is more complex in Africa than Western donors and scholars are inclined to admit. He argues that ethno-regional associations and movements are more significant constituents of civil society in Africa than the conventional organizations that are often uncritically imposed or endorsed. He shows how the politics of belonging, so pervasive in Cameroon, and indeed much of Africa, during the current neoliberal economic and political reforms, has tended to penetrate the entire range of associational life, and he calls for a critical re-appraisal of prevalent notions and assumptions about civil society in the interest of African reality.

African Human Rights Yearbook Volume 4 2020
African Human Rights Yearbook Volume 4 2020

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Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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The three institutions making up the African regional human rights system, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, decided to jointly publish the African Human Rights Yearbook, to spearhead studies on the promotion and protection of human rights, and to provide a forum for constructive engagement about the African human rights system with academics and other human rights commentators on the continent. Volume 4 of the Yearbook, published in 2020, contains 24 contributions by scholars from Africa and beyond. Les trois institutions qui composent le système régional africain des droits de l’homme, la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples, la Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples et le Comité africain d’experts sur les droits et le bien-être de l’enfant ont décidé de publier conjointement l’Annuaire africain des droits de l’homme pour encourager les études sur la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme et offrir un forum d’interaction constructive sur le système avec les universitaires et observateurs du continent. Le Volume 4 de l’Annuaire, publié en 2020, contient 24 contributions de chercheurs du continent et d’ailleurs.