Prophet Harris, The 'Black Elijah' of West Africa
Prophet Harris, The 'Black Elijah' of West Africa

Author: David A. Shank

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9004664599

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Prophet Harris, The “Black Elijah” of West Africa offers the only comprehensive study of the thought of William Wade Harris, the Glebo (Liberia) loyalist whose prophetic mission from 1910-29 moved tens of thousands of West Africans out of traditional religion into the stream of Christianity and modernization, particularly in the Ivory Coast. It reviews that unparalleled breakthrough, thoroughly examines traditional African, Western missionary and colonial influences which helped determine religious innovation and shape his vocation as prophet of Christ's reign of peace and prosperity. Heretofore unused sources, enriched by documents and photos, expose biblical eschatological and messianic dynamics which tied Harris' words, symbols and charisma together in a holistic African Christianity. The source of long-standing contentions between Ivoirian Harrists, Methodists and Catholics is uncovered in the well-intentioned but changing colonial and missionary responses to his impact.

Prophet Harris
Prophet Harris

Author: David A. Shank

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1993-12-31

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9789004099807

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Prophet Harris, The 'Black Elijah' of West Africa offers the only comprehensive study of the thought of William Wade Harris, the Glebo (Liberia) loyalist whose prophetic mission from 1910-29 moved tens of thousands of West Africans out of traditional religion into the stream of Christianity and modernization, particularly in the Ivory Coast. It reviews that unparalleled breakthrough, thoroughly examines traditional African, Western missionary and colonial influences which helped determine religious innovation and shape his vocation as prophet of Christ's reign of peace and prosperity. Heretofore unused sources, enriched by documents and photos, expose biblical eschatological and messianic dynamics which tied Harris' words, symbols and charisma together in a holistic African Christianity. The source of longstanding contentions between Ivoirian Harrists, Methodists and Catholics is uncovered in the well-intentioned but changing colonial and missionary responses to his impact.

New Directions in Gender and Religion
New Directions in Gender and Religion

Author: Brigid M. Sackey

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780739110584

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Brigid M. Sackey's book is a comprehensive analysis of gender relations in religion in Ghana, using gendered anthropological tools of rare insight and originality. The book chronicles the efforts of men and women who bring a repackaged and customized Christianity and health delivery to meet with the specific cultural needs. Sackey disabuses notions of the helplessness of women in Ghana specifically (and Africa in general) as it highlights women's initiatives and assertiveness as healers and leaders of the churches they have founded, in addition to their increased involvement and participation in gender discourses and social change. Sackey also addresses the question of HIV and the AIDS epidemic, detailing how the churches, through the specific leadership of women, are supporting a national campaign on the disease. Basing her research on an exhaustive library of oral history, ethnography, theory, and case studies, Sackey has brilliantly chronicled the relentless proliferation of and innovations in African Independent Churches, and their impact on the national health delivery system and its development.

An Unpredictable Gospel
An Unpredictable Gospel

Author: Jay Riley Case

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-01-02

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0199772320

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Jay Case examines the efforts of American evangelical missionaries, arguing that if they were agents of imperialism they were poor ones. Western missionaries had a dismal record of converting non-Westerners to Christianity.

Jesus and the Gospel in Africa
Jesus and the Gospel in Africa

Author: Kwame Bediako

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1570755426

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"Jesus and the Gospel in Africa collects writings by Kwame Bediako and is the best source for his insights into the Christ of present-day African history and the Jesus of African faith. Bediako shows how intimately bound together are such elements as the message of Jesus and the struggle to give birth to African democracy." --Book Jacket.

The Church in Africa, 1450-1950
The Church in Africa, 1450-1950

Author: Adrian Hastings

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 0198263996

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Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.

Biblical, Traditional, and Theological Framework for Understanding Christian Prophetism in Ghana Today
Biblical, Traditional, and Theological Framework for Understanding Christian Prophetism in Ghana Today

Author: Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1532618638

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The basis for this project is to verify and determine the extent to which contemporary prophetic ministry in Ghana appropriates prophetism in the early church, Corpus Paulinum, and traditional prophetism in Ghana. The spirit of prophecy which was believed to have ceased in Judaism and during the intertestamental period has now been restored at the inauguration of Christianity. Notwithstanding, Paul gave stipulations for prophets and prophecy in the church in 1 Corinthians 14. This confirms that prophecy was a common phenomenon in the early church and Pauline communities. Contemporary prophetic ministry in Ghana claimed to have conformed to Pauline stipulations concerning prophets and prophecy in the church, but what is their level of conformity? Contemporary prophetic ministry is becoming popular due to its appeal and compatibility with religious worldviews and its pragmatic outlook that resonates with the Ghanaian phenomenon of religion. As an adherent of the Akan traditional religion would go to a religious intermediary for ebisa (literally to “inquire” or “ask”) into present or future happenings, contemporary prophets have positioned themselves to be agents of ebisa in Ghanaian Christianity. This book explores biblical and traditional understandings of prophetism that have influenced contemporary Christian understanding of prophets and prophecy in the church.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V

Author: Mark P. Hutchinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0198702256

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Volume V extends the study of the Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series into the twentieth century, following the spatial, cultural, and intellectual changes in dissenting identity and practice as these once European traditions globalized and settled down in other places.