Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion (eBook, ePUB)

The Search for Abundant Life
Redaktion: Ilo, Stan Chu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty, wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498561280
• Artikelnr.: 50416295

Autorenporträt

Stan Chu Ilo is research professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University and president of Canadian Samaritans for Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Esther Acolatse
Introduction: "The Search for Abundant Life in African Christian Religion:
Historical Reinterpretation of Christian Mission in Africa"-Stan Chu Ilo
African Christian Religions and the Quest for Health, Healing and Wholeness
1. "African Christian Religion: Its Scope in the Global Context"-Caleb O.
Oladipo
2. "In Quest of Wholeness: African Christians in the New Christianity"
-David Tonghou Ngong
3. "Searching for Healing in a Miraculous Stream: The Fate of God's People
in Africa" - Stan Chu Ilo
African Pentecostalism and the Ecology of Sickness and Evil
4. "Eradicating Evil in the Search for Practices of Hope in Africa:
Witchcraft Beliefs and Accusations in Contemporary Ghanaian
Christianity"-Cyril G. K. Fayose
5. "Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal as a Socio-Religious Phenomenon for
Transformation in Africa"- Clement Majawa
6. "Taking Africa out of the African: Eco-Community, the Christian Heritage
of Empire and Neo-Pentecostalism in Africa"-Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo
Mission, Money, Wealth, and the Search for Abundant Life
7. "The African Peoples and Money: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"-Nathanaël
Soede
8. "The Place of Money in Mission Between Africa and the West: A Personal
Narrative"-Jim Harries
9. "Nigeria, Europe and Christian Mission: Models of Economic Collaboration
in the 21st Century"-Felix Enegho
10. "The African Church and the Impact of Contemporary Fundraising and
Sustainability"-Levi Nkwocha
11. "To Recycle or Not to Recycle: An Ethical Question in Africa's Relation
with the West"-Aloysius Ochasi, Peter Clark, and Michael Barkowski
12. "In the Wake of Overt Religiosity: A Critical and Appreciative
Perspective on Religion as a Force for Social Transformation and
Development in African society"-Obaji M. Agbiji and Ignatius Swart