Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion

by Stan Chu Ilo

Author	: Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Total Pages	: 339
Release	: 2017-11-22
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1498561284

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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.

The Face of Africa

by Stan Chu Ilo

Author	: Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages	: 500
Release	: 2012-12-01
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1725232480

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"A technical insight to Africa's development." -- United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva "This book is good news and a compelling work of our times. It creates hope, challenges despair, re-establishes authentic human development and original African values." --Prof. Obiora Ike, Catholic Institute for Development, Justice and Peace, Nigeria "A very precious contribution to Christian conversation on the future of Africa by a young African researcher." --Prof. Benezet Bujo, Chair, Centre for Moral Theology and Social Ethics, University of Freibourg, Switzerland "This book is a stirring manifesto for social reconstruction and interior transformation in Africa." --Prof. James H. Olthuis, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto "This is a bold attempt at contextual theology." --Dr. Joseph Faniran, Catholic Institute for West Africa "Stan Chu Ilo is one of Africa's bright stars and provides a Christian socio-ethical compass for navigating life in Africa for generations to come." --Prof. Uche Uguwueze, Professor of African Studies, California State University, Long Beach "A fascinating discourse on the trials and hope of the African continent." --Milwaukee Community Journal, USA

Is Africa Cursed?

by Tokunboh Adeyemo

Author	: Tokunboh Adeyemo
Publisher	: WordAlive Publishers
Total Pages	: 156
Release	: 1997
Genre	: Africa
ISBN	: 9966805133

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Africa's heartrending picture begs the question: Is Africa cursed? In this book, the author conveys a winning message - that there can be hope for Africa. He unwraps Africa's place in the Bible, wards off superstition and advocates Christians' active engagement in transforming Africa.

Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa

by David Garbin

Author	: David Garbin
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages	: 241
Release	: 2022-11-17
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1350152609

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How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa.

Handbook of African Catholicism

by Ilo, Stan Chu

Author	: Ilo, Stan Chu
Publisher	: Orbis Books
Total Pages	: 1003
Release	: 2022-07-13
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 160833936X

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"A disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today by engaging some of the most pressing and pertinent issues, topics, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism"--

What Does Theology Do, Actually?

by Matthew Ryan Robinson

Author	: Matthew Ryan Robinson
Publisher	: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Total Pages	: 328
Release	: 2022-07-26
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 3374070302

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»What Does Theology Do, Actually? Observing Theology and the Transcultural« is to be the first in a series of 5 books, each presented under the same question – »What Does Theology Do, Actually?«, with vols. 2–5 focusing on one of the theological subdisciplines. This first volume proceeds from the observation of a need for a highly inflected »trans-cultural«, and not simply »inter-cultural«, set of perspectives in theological work and training. The revolution brought about across the humanities disciplines through globalization and the recognition of »multiple modernities« has introduced a diversity of overlapping cultural content and multiple cultural and religious belongings not only into academic work in the humanities and social sciences, but into the Christian churches as well.

New Frontiers in Contemporary Missiology: Southern African Perspectives

by Henry Mbaya

Author	: Henry Mbaya
Publisher	: UJ Press
Total Pages	: 142
Release	: 2024-08-22
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1776489632

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This book epitomizes the understanding that to excel, you have to believe in yourself and your ability to achieve, and that part of this process is enabled by mentorship. Looking at the history of women in science or academia, it is apparent that women have struggled long and hard to be recognised as legitimate scientists or academics and that women of colour are confronted with double jeopardy of both race and gender, not only in South Africa but at a global level. Gender equity in science or academia and racial diversity are moral and necessary imperatives. In academia, women are strongly represented in the early phases of their academic careers, yet there is an attrition in the number of women who are associate professors and full professors. This “leaky pipeline” not only wastes women's education and potential, preventing much-needed diversity in academia but, more profoundly, restricts women's goals and rights.

International Handbook of Practical Theology

by Birgit Weyel

Author	: Birgit Weyel
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages	: 836
Release	: 2022-09-05
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 311061815X

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Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that religion, spirituality, lived religion on this side and beyond institutional communities refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious affairs collected from various cultures and religions. The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters include considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution', 'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents the main theoretical discourses that map the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, fifty-eight authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi

by Ross, Kenneth R.

Author	: Ross, Kenneth R.
Publisher	: Mzuni Press
Total Pages	: 533
Release	: 2020-02-27
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 9996060780

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With the death of John McCracken in 2017, Malawi lost a pre-eminent historian. This book celebrates McCracken’s contribution to the study of Malawi’s history and seeks to build on his legacy. Part of his genius was that he identified themes that hold the key to understanding the history of Malawi in its broader perspective. The authors contributing to this volume address these themes, assessing the progress of historiography and setting an agenda for the further advance of historical studies. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and all who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Malawi’s past and present.