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Christianity in Africa and the African diaspora : the appropriation of a scattered heritage / edited by Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, Klaus Hock.

Contributor(s): Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964- | Gerloff, Roswith I. H | Hock, Klaus, 1955-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum religious studies: Publisher: London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Continuum, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847063175 (alk. paper); 1847063179 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Christianity -- Africa -- Congresses | African diaspora -- CongressesDDC classification: 276/.08 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue / Dominique Kounkou -- Introduction / Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff and Klaus Hock -- Political or spiritual partition : the impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian missions in Africa / Olayemi Akinwumi -- Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent / Jonathan J. Bonk -- Colonization in Africa : the local and global implications for Christianity in contemporary Nigeria / Deji Ayegboyin -- The role of the churches in the struggle for liberation in Southern Africa : a thematic survey / Ezra Chitando -- Deconstructing colonial mission : new missiological perspectives in African Christianity / Abraham Akrong -- Baptists in Africa : a missionary church in action / Richard V. Pierard -- The empire fights back : the invention of African Anglicanism / Kevin Ward -- Imperial war-zones and frontiers of conversion / Andreas Heuser -- Paradigmatic shift : reconstruction of female leadership roles in the new generation churches in south-western Nigeria / Bolaji Olukemi Bateye -- From holy ground to virtual reality : Aladura gender practices in cyberspace : an African diaspora perspective / Deidre Helen Crumbley -- Petticoat partition or faith-full friendship?: motives and outcomes of British women's immigration to Africa from the scramble to the present / Deborah Gaitskell -- HIV/AIDS discourse and the quest for a rebirth in Africa : a theological perspective / Nico Botha -- Transnational religious networks and indigenous pentecostal missionary enterprises in the west African coastal region / Matthews A. Ojo --
The role of charismatic Christianity in reshaping the religious scene in Africa : the case of Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura -- "I will put my breath in you, and you will come to life" : charismatic renewal in Ghanaian mainline churches and its implications for African "diasporean" Christianity / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Churches of the Spirit : the pentecostal/charismatic movement and Africa's contribution to the renewal of Christianity / Roswith Gerloff -- Elements of African religious spiritual practices in African American worship : resounding practical theological implications / Antipas L. Harris -- Religion on the move : transcultural perspectives : discourses on diaspora religion between category formation and the quest for religious identity / Klaus Hock -- Who do they think they are? : mental images and the unfolding of an African diaspora in Germany / Afe Adogame -- "... the land which the Lord your God giveth you" : two churches founded by African migrants in Oststadt, Germany / Evalgelos Karagiannis and Nina Glick Schiller -- Colonial politicization of religion : residual effects on the ministry of African-led churches in Britain / Dapo Asaju -- The implication of mission from a black Seventh-Day Adventist perspective, with reference to Britain, the Caribbean, and Africa / Herbert Griffiths -- Kimbanguism as a migrants' religion in Europe / Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot -- The position of African Christians in the Netherlands / Alle G. Hoekema -- An ecumenical challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century : koinonia vs. convivence / Benjamin Simon -- The "program for cooperation between German and foreign language churches" and African churches in the Rhein-Ruhr-region : developments from 1999 / Ursula Harfst.

Proceedings of a conference held in 2003 in Berlin, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue / Dominique Kounkou -- Introduction / Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff and Klaus Hock -- Political or spiritual partition : the impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian missions in Africa / Olayemi Akinwumi -- Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent / Jonathan J. Bonk -- Colonization in Africa : the local and global implications for Christianity in contemporary Nigeria / Deji Ayegboyin -- The role of the churches in the struggle for liberation in Southern Africa : a thematic survey / Ezra Chitando -- Deconstructing colonial mission : new missiological perspectives in African Christianity / Abraham Akrong -- Baptists in Africa : a missionary church in action / Richard V. Pierard -- The empire fights back : the invention of African Anglicanism / Kevin Ward -- Imperial war-zones and frontiers of conversion / Andreas Heuser -- Paradigmatic shift : reconstruction of female leadership roles in the new generation churches in south-western Nigeria / Bolaji Olukemi Bateye -- From holy ground to virtual reality : Aladura gender practices in cyberspace : an African diaspora perspective / Deidre Helen Crumbley -- Petticoat partition or faith-full friendship?: motives and outcomes of British women's immigration to Africa from the scramble to the present / Deborah Gaitskell -- HIV/AIDS discourse and the quest for a rebirth in Africa : a theological perspective / Nico Botha -- Transnational religious networks and indigenous pentecostal missionary enterprises in the west African coastal region / Matthews A. Ojo --

The role of charismatic Christianity in reshaping the religious scene in Africa : the case of Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura -- "I will put my breath in you, and you will come to life" : charismatic renewal in Ghanaian mainline churches and its implications for African "diasporean" Christianity / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Churches of the Spirit : the pentecostal/charismatic movement and Africa's contribution to the renewal of Christianity / Roswith Gerloff -- Elements of African religious spiritual practices in African American worship : resounding practical theological implications / Antipas L. Harris -- Religion on the move : transcultural perspectives : discourses on diaspora religion between category formation and the quest for religious identity / Klaus Hock -- Who do they think they are? : mental images and the unfolding of an African diaspora in Germany / Afe Adogame -- "... the land which the Lord your God giveth you" : two churches founded by African migrants in Oststadt, Germany / Evalgelos Karagiannis and Nina Glick Schiller -- Colonial politicization of religion : residual effects on the ministry of African-led churches in Britain / Dapo Asaju -- The implication of mission from a black Seventh-Day Adventist perspective, with reference to Britain, the Caribbean, and Africa / Herbert Griffiths -- Kimbanguism as a migrants' religion in Europe / Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot -- The position of African Christians in the Netherlands / Alle G. Hoekema -- An ecumenical challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century : koinonia vs. convivence / Benjamin Simon -- The "program for cooperation between German and foreign language churches" and African churches in the Rhein-Ruhr-region : developments from 1999 / Ursula Harfst.

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