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Author: Ludwig
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-29
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 900466470X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on interviews and archival material, this volume examines the different periods in the relationship between church and state in Tanzania from independence to 1994.
Author: Amy Stambach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 179360360X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work examines the operations and organization of the Tanzanian Lutheran church through the life and times of its longest serving diocesan bishop, Erasto N. Kweka. Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu develop the concept of pragmatic faith, belief-in-practice, to analyze the integration of religious experience, institutionalism, and doctrine or orthodoxy. Pragmatic faith breaks down the lingering binary found in anthropological studies of Christianity between transcendental experience and pragmatic struggle, and between religious revival as rupture or continuity. Stambach and Kwayu analyze the instrumental use of religion in practice, as well as its socially mobilized potential for revelation and transformation. A key analytic agenda of this book is to illuminate how a church that retains the organizational and ritual forms of a European mission church "became" culturally localized over time and yet, paradoxically, also existed pre-colonially. Accordingly, this book offers detailed and ethnographically-grounded perspective on how leaders and laypeople affiliated with the Tanzanian Lutheran church connect the church with other significant institutions, not only the state and the government, but also descent groups, extended families, self-help groups, and existing civic organizations, in order to live meaningfully.
Author: Thomas Ndaluka
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 3643905467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the relationship between religion and state in Tanzania as a feature of the Tanzanian social scene, from pre-colonial/colonial times to post-colonial times. It examines the changes in the character of religion and state relations, especially after independence, and the way these changes are experienced in different communities - particularly by African traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians. The book studies the nature of the relationship between religion and state, the way it is conceptualized and experienced, and the implications for the democratic aspirations of pluralist Tanzania. (Series: Interreligious Studies - Vol. 7) [Subject: History, African Studies, Religious Studies, Politics]
Author: Andreana C. Prichard
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 162895292X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal stories of a group of female African lay evangelists. Founded by British Anglican missionaries in the 1860s, the UMCA worked among refugees from the Indian Ocean slave trade on Zanzibar and among disparate communities on the adjacent Tanzanian mainland. Prichard illustrates how the mission’s unique theology and the demographics of its adherents produced cohorts of African Christian women who, in the face of linguistic and cultural dissimilarity, used the daily performance of a certain set of “civilized” Christian values and affective relationships to evangelize to new inquirers. The UMCA’s “sisters in spirit” ultimately forged a united spiritual community that spanned discontiguous mission stations across Tanzania and Zanzibar, incorporated diverse ethnolinguistic communities, and transcended generations. Focusing on the emotional and personal dimensions of their lives and on the relationships of affective spirituality that grew up among them, Prichard tells stories that are vital to our understanding of Tanzanian history, the history of religion and Christian missions in Africa, the development of cultural nationalisms, and the intellectual histories of African women.
Author: Frans Jozef Servaas Wijsen
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9966219471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: B. Bompani
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-07-16
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0230283209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion is playing an increasingly central role in African political and developmental life. This book offers an empirical and theoretical reflection on the relationships between religion, politics and development in Africa; the meanings of religion in non-Western contexts and the way that is embedded in the everyday life of people in Africa.
Author: Mwita Akiri
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1783688025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the telling of the history of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Tanzania, the initiatives, contributions, and experiences of indigenous teachers have too often been neglected in favour of stories of sacrifices of Western missionaries. Bishop Mwita Akiri redresses this bias by using a socio-historical approach, written from an Afro-centric tradition, to evaluate the contributions and experiences of indigenous agents in the growth of Christianity in Tanzania. This book underscores the significance of oral tradition in African historiography and challenges the claim that foreign missionaries succeeded in destroying African cultures, when they are in fact alive and well. This much-needed research also provides a model for dialogue between the perspective of Christian missions and that of African religious and social heritage in order to continue forward with a Christianity that is authentic and also distinctly African.
Author: Erwin Fahlbusch
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2008-02-14
Total Pages: 897
ISBN-13: 080282417X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by leading scholars from around the world, the articles in this volume range from sin, Sufism and terrorism to theology in the 19th and 20th centuries, Vatican I and II and the virgin birth.
Author: Frieder Ludwig
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9789004115064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on interviews and archival material, this volume examines the different periods in the relationship between church and state in Tanzania from independence to 1994.
Author: Arngeir Langås
Publisher: Religion and Society in Africa
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433159671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeace in Zanzibar brings a multiperspective analytic lens to the Joint Committee of Religious Leaders for Peace (JVD), a unique Christian-Muslim peace initiative in Zanzibar, as it investigates whether Christian-Muslim cooperation can contribute to peace on the East African island and, if so, how.
