This book demonstrates that the encounter between Christianity and various African cultures gives rise to a number of problems for Africans who become Christians. It draws attention to certain traditional African beliefs and practices that seem to be incompatible with Christianity and create problems for...
Healing in African indigenous cultures is a corporate matter involving the totality of the person, family and community. Healing presupposes sickness; its practice is therefore interlocked with a people's conception of sickness and diseases. In Africa, sickness is an attestation to the fact that ...
on periodicals and journals of Asian and African Christians around 1900, this sourcebook is the first compilation of such texts in a comparative perspective... C Burlacioiu,K Koschorke,A Hermann,... 被引量: 2发表: 2016年 Assessing the Sociological Study of Asian American Christianity In the...
Critical readers tend to see this piece as yet another examination of the incompatibility of Western Christianity and indigenous African cultures (e.g. Carroll 154; Innes 10; Scafe 119鈥 120). I disagree. Rather, I see this sketch as an early exploration of the extent to which, already by...
The hope for any discussion of Perpetua and Felicity (but especially Perpetua) would be that it illuminates the competency of women in leadership even when existing in cultures where men retain power. In light of his extensive application work so far, Eastman makes a disappointing decision not to...
He became the first president of the Fellowship of St. Moses the Black, which emerged out of the Ancient Christianity and African American Conferences, where Black Americans have been discovering the riches of Ancient Orthodox Christianity, and Orthodox Christians have been discovering the depth of ...
Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa: A Queer Theologian's Appraisal Here an investigation into a particular Christian conservatism, which has led to fundamentalism, is provided. This reality, it is argued, renders this ... AA Thyssen - 《African Journal of Gender & Religion》...
in Africa: (1) it is dominated by the ‘prosperity gospel’ and therefore stunts real economic growth and development; (2) it is primarily an apolitical faith that distracts people from their suffering; and (3) it is a Western import that disables the development of African cultures. It...
to be found on every beach and in every shopping mall throughout the world. And one of the things marking it out among ancient and modern cultures is its obsession with sex. This sexual chatter sets the west apart. Every culture has its own hang-ups about sex – but most of them don...
Cox’s response to her critics was not apologetic. “An African-American woman putting herself in a position of empowerment seems to be a national threat,” she said. “I’m not taking a backseat. I’m going to sit at the head of the table.” As for the nakedness, she insisted it...