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Book Africains  missionnaires et colonialistes

Download or read book Africains missionnaires et colonialistes written by Gerrit Jan van Butselaar and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Les P  res Blancs au temps de la conqu  te coloniale  Histoire des Missionnaires d Afrique 1892 1914

Download or read book Les P res Blancs au temps de la conqu te coloniale Histoire des Missionnaires d Afrique 1892 1914 written by SHORTER Aylward and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'ouvrage d'Aylward Shorter, dans un parcours historique à la croisée des XIXe et XXe siècles (1892-1914), nous fait découvrir le développement d'un institut missionnaire voué au continent africain et sa confrontation à l'expansion coloniale : celui des Missionnaires d'Afrique (Pères Blancs). En s'appuyant sur une documentation fouillée et sur une connaissance précise des régions évoquées, l'auteur présente, en un style alerte et dans une rédaction comportant de nombreuses informations inédites, les forces humaines mises en oeuvre pour la mission et les stratégies apostoliques élaborées sur place ou par la direction de l'institut. Son livre couvre une période d'une vingtaine d'années qui correspond à une grande partie du supériorat général de Mgr Livinhac, le premier successeur du fondateur de cet institut, le Cardinal Lavigerie. Période cruciale, comme toutes celles d'après fondation, et qui de surcroît connaîtra l'épreuve de la première guerre mondiale et la mise en place généralisée des pouvoirs coloniaux en Afrique subsaharienne. Passant successivement en revue les étapes majeures du développement de l'institut lui-même et de ses implantations en Afrique - Afrique du Nord et Afrique subsaharienne -, sans oublier l'importante fondation de Jérusalem, l'auteur décrit l'émergence des communauté chrétiennes et des oeuvres de formation dans les missions des Pères Blancs, sans dissimuler les difficultés et parfois les ambiguïtés de ces réalisations. Il nous fait ainsi parcourir une page importante de l'histoire récente du christianisme et de son expansion sur le continent africain. Membre de la Société des Missionnaires d'Afrique (Pères Blancs), Aylward Shorter est connu pour ses nombreuses publications en anthropologie et en histoire. Il a vécu de nombreuses années en Afrique de l'Est, notamment au Kenya où il a enseigné dans divers instituts universitaires. Il est membre de l'équipe de recherches historiques de son institut et son ouvrage se situe dans le cadre d'un projet d'ensemble en trois volumes, pour une études approfondie de l'historie des Missionnaires d'Afrique.

Book Africains  missionaires et colonialistes

Download or read book Africains missionaires et colonialistes written by Jan van Butselaar and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Download or read book Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission written by Martha Frederiks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.

Book Women in African Colonial Histories

Download or read book Women in African Colonial Histories written by Susan Geiger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While recognising the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the essays in this anthology show that African women were not simply the hapless victims of European political rule.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches written by Robert Benedetto and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches contains information on the major personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches.

Book Mission to Educate

Download or read book Mission to Educate written by Taylor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of 150 years' educational pioneering in Eastern Nigeria re-appraises many of the stereotypes about mission schools in Africa. It suggests that Scottish Presbyterian educationalists were usually less at ease with British colonialism than with preparing for a politically independent Nigeria.

Book The Genevan Reveil in International Perspective

Download or read book The Genevan Reveil in International Perspective written by Jean D. Decorvet and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century international religious movement known as the Réveil had a major impact on Protestantism, and particularly on Evangelicalism. That impact is still evident today. Yet as a multi-faceted phenomenon, this movement has not received its due share of scholarly attention. This book offers a collection of essays exploring the international dimensions of the Genevan strand of the Réveil, providing an overview of events and trends, outlining the careers of some of its key figures, and highlighting some of the areas in which it made a contribution to contemporary society. As the first such collection to focus on this movement, it brings together scholars from several countries, with expertise in its various aspects.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches written by Benedetto and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999-11-03 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches contains information on the major personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches.

Book The Church in Africa  1450 1950

Download or read book The Church in Africa 1450 1950 written by Adrian Hastings and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.

Book Ancestors  Power  and History in Madagascar

Download or read book Ancestors Power and History in Madagascar written by Karen Middleton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and emerging identities in Madagascar.

Book Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals

Download or read book Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals written by Wolf Lepenies and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals explores the changing field of local histories. Young researchers from around the world--including scholars from Canada, Mozambique, China, and Germany, representing fields as diverse as history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, medicine, and materials science--present their findings, all of which coincide in their understanding that local histories are inseparably intertwined and that, fundamentally, all history is the history of relationships.

Book Christianity and African Culture

Download or read book Christianity and African Culture written by Klaus Fiedler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common charge laid against missionaries that they are destroyers of African culture is shown to be untrue of the missionaries treated in this book, who worked with considerable success to integrate Christianity and African culture. The author examines the endeavours of the missionaries from the perspective of the local Christians, who were not themselves interested in Africanization as such. One can thus find some missionaries defending - against the elected African Church leadership - the right of the Chagga Christians to circumcise their daughters, and Nyakyusa Christians refusing to use African tunes because the missionaries - influenced by National Socialism - professed both love for African culture and White superiority. This informative book, based on local and archival research at Daressalam University, is eminently readable. It features the first historical study of Bruno Gutmann, and provides case study material for teaching.

Book Trajectories of Religion in Africa

Download or read book Trajectories of Religion in Africa written by Cephas N. Omenyo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, in the main, discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological education and assesses the relevance of the World Council of Churches. Other issues discussed in this segment relate to the interrelationships that exist between academic theology, ecumenism, and Christianity. The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, which set the agenda for world-wide mission in a promising manner in the 1920s, is also assessed in this section of the work. The second segment, which covers Religion and Public Space, discusses works that examine the relationships between religion and power, religion and development, religion and traditional religious beliefs, and religion and practices in Africa. The third segment of the book treats Religion and Cultural Practices in African and how all these work out in couching out an African theology and African Christianity. Some of the issues discussed in this section related to African traditional philosophy, spiritism, and the interrelationships that exist between African Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The last segment of the book discusses the issue of African biblical hermeneutics and specifically looks at contemporary hermeneutical approaches to biblical interpretations in Africa.

Book The Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God

Download or read book The Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God written by Elizabeth Gunner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Africans in the growth and process of Christianity in South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular the book provides an insight into the role of writing and literacy in the church founded by the South African prophet, Isaiah Shembe, in 1910. The book provides a substantial, contextualising introduction which includes discussion of the church’s history and its position in contemporary South Africa, and weaves in discussion of the topics of literacy and modernity. The book then moves to the three documents, presented in their language of composition, Zulu and in an English translation. The three ‘books’, each from Shembe’s Nazareth Baptist Church, provide the reader with a fascinating insight into the growth and organisation of one of southern Africa’s most influential African Churches, and into the use and interpretation of the Bible by the church’s founder, Isaiah Shembe, and by church members. Central to the writings is the complex presence of Shembe, present both through his own words in the first book and, in the second book, through the memory of Meshack Hadebe, a member of the church in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The extracts in the third book provide a glimpse of the church’s hymnal and the unique religious poetry of the hymns, authored by Shembe.

Book Hail Orisha

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  • Author : Peter McKenzie
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-08-14
  • ISBN : 9004664688
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Hail Orisha written by Peter McKenzie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orisha worshippers who were not subjected to forced migration to the Americas in the nineteenth century remained their own masters, inhabiting cities, towns and farm villages in their West African kingdoms. This study uses documentation from Yoruba writings and from the written record of European missionaries to describe the various facets of their religious life. Arranged in the form of a phenomenology, the work deals with such matters as the veneration of the environment; carved images of the divine; the orisha celebrated in festival, worship and sacrifice; systems of divination; female and male religious specialists; and the protean divinities themselves. The comprehensive use of archival material will ensure the abiding value of this historical picture of the orisha, useful for comparisons with the present day.