Communities of Faith in Africa and the African Diaspora
Communities of Faith in Africa and the African Diaspora

Author: Casely B. Essamuah

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-01-13

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 162032959X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora. The essays span history, theology, anthropology, ecumenism, and missiology. Readers will be treated to fresh perspectives on African Pentecostal higher education, Pentecostalism and witchcraft in East Africa, Methodist camp meetings in Ghana, Ghanaian diaspora missions in Europe and North America, gender roles in South African Christian communities, HIV/AIDS ministries in Uganda, Japanese funerary rites, enculturation and contextualization principles of mission, and many other aspects of the Christian world mission. With essays from well-known scholars as well as young and emerging men and women in academia, Communities of Faith illuminates current realities of world Christianity and contributes to the scholarship of today's worldwide Christian witness.

Violence, Religion, Peacemaking
Violence, Religion, Peacemaking

Author: Douglas Irvin-Erickson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-09

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1137568518

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume explores how religious leaders can contribute to cultures of peace around the world. The essays are written by leading and emerging scholars and practitioners who have lived, taught, or worked in the areas of conflict about which they write. Connecting the theory and practice of religious peacebuilding to illuminate key challenges facing interreligious dialogue and interreligious peace work, the volume is explicitly interreligious, intercultural, and global in perspective. The chapters approach religion and peace from the vantage point of security studies, sociology, ethics, ecology, theology, and philosophy. A foreword by David Smock, the Vice President of Governance, Law and Society and Director of the Religion and Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace, outlines the current state of the field.

Thomas Jefferson Bowen
Thomas Jefferson Bowen

Author: J. T. Okedara

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book looks into warring Africa and urges a need for a peaceful resolution of wars and a call for joint problem-solving to terminate the slavery of war.

Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Religion and the Making of Nigeria

Author: Olufemi Vaughan

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0822373874

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.