The Making of an Indigenous Clergy in Southern Africa
Author: Philippe Denis
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 216
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Author: Philippe Denis
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philippe Denis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-05-18
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9004320016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. Dominicans from Portugal and Portuguese India were present in South-East Africa from 1577 to 1835. Patrick Raymond Griffith, an Irish Dominican, became the first resident bishop in South Africa in 1837. A Dominican mission was established in 1917 with the arrival of a group of English friars. A second group arrived from the Netherlands in 1932. The aim is to provide a social history of the Dominicans in Southern Africa, that is, a history that deals specifically with the social and cultural factors of historical development. The Dominicans ministered in a political, social and cultural context which impacted on their apostolic activities and, in turn, was affected by them. The book's terminus ad quem is 1990, when the National Party opened a process of political negotiation, thus ending more than forty years of apartheid rule.
Author: George Mukuka
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kristin Fjelde Tjelle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1137336366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions.
Author: Alan Charles Henriques
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Les Switzer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9004541020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.
Author: Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 3030423964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities. In the last three decades, African Pentecostalism has emerged as one the most visible and profound aspects of religious change on the continent, and is a social force that straddles cultural, economic, and political spheres. Its conventional and selective literal interpretations of the Bible with respect to gender and sexualities are increasingly perceived as exhibiting a strong influence on many aspects of social and public institutions and their moral orientations. This collection features articles which examine sexualities and genders in African Pentecostalism using interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches grounded within traditional African thought systems, with the goal of enabling a broader understanding of Pentecostalism and sexualities in Africa.
Author: Edley J. Moodley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2008-08-18
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1556358806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Christian axis has shifted dramatically southward to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, so much so that today there are more Christians living in these southern regions than among their northern counterparts. In the case of Africa, the African Initiated Churches-founded by Africans and primarily for Africans-has largely contributed to the exponential growth and proliferation of the Christian faith in the continent. Yet, even more profoundly, these churches espouse a brand of Christianity that is indigenized and thoroughly contextual. Further, the power and popularity of the AICs, beyond the unprecedented numbers joining these churches, are attributed to their relevance to the existential everyday needs and concerns of their adherents in the context of a postcolonial Africa. At the heart of Christian theology is Christology-the confessed uniqueness of Christ in history and among world religions. Yet this key feature of Christianity, as with other important elements of the Christian faith, may be variously understood and re-interpreted in these indigenous churches. The focus of this study is the amaNazaretha Church, an influential religious group founded by the African charismatic prophet Isaiah Shembe in 1911 in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The movement today claims a following of some two million adherents and has proliferated beyond the borders of South Africa to neighboring countries in Southern Africa. The book addresses the complex and at times ambivalent understanding of the person and work of Christ in the amaNazaretha Church, presenting the genesis, history, beliefs, and practices of this significant religious movement in South Africa, with broader implications for similar movements across the continent of Africa and beyond.
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 118
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 662
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