Christianity and the African Imagination: Essays in Honour of Adrian HastingsAdrian Hastings, David James Maxwell, Ingrid Lawrie BRILL, 2002 - 421 pages During the twentieth-century, Christendom shifted its centre of gravity to the Southern Hemisphere, Africa becoming the most significant area of church growth. This volume explores Christianity's advance across the continent, and its capturing of the African imagination. From the medieval Catholic Kingdom of Kongo to a transnational Pentecostal movement in post-colonial Zimbabwe, the chapters explore how African agents priests and prophets, martyrs and missionaries, evangelists and catechists have seized Christianity and made it theirs. Emphasizing popular religion, the book shows how the Christian ideas and texts, practices and symbols, which have been adapted by Africans, help them accept existential passions and empower them through faith to deal with material concerns for health and wealth, and to overcome evil. The book provides a resource for students across a range of disciplines - history, social anthropology, religious studies, theology, mission studies with particular value for researchers into the socio-political role of third-world Christianity. |
Contents
Chapter | 25 |
Chapter | 41 |
Chapter Three | 63 |
Chapter Four | 93 |
Chapter Five | 127 |
Chapter | 157 |
Chapter Seven | 199 |
Chapter Eight | 225 |
Chapter Nine | 271 |
Chapter | 295 |
Chapter Eleven | 333 |
Chapter Twelve | 367 |
Four Poems from Zaire | 407 |
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