Bringing to light hidden truths that have escaped many fine scholars and laymen alike for generations, the author explains very difficult topics in a very easy-to-follow format. The author also engages the reader in every answer, raising curiosity and igniting interest in Bible study. He deftly presents the Bible as a word-and-idea puzzle, which is fun to play with and share with believers and non-believers.
Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be the theatre where a remarkably sophisticated and complex drama of socio-cultural change is playing out. Nowhere is this social transformation more evident than in the cities and towns of Nigeria. In this country of more than 130 million inhabitants, religion—in its varied forms—has taken over urban landscapes, political discourse, the airwaves of radio and television broadcasting, economic and educational practices and policies as well as social interaction. Pentecostalism, in its latest incarnation(s),
A Pan-African Theology: Providence and the Legacies of the Ancestors is a liberation theology that blends radical perspectives of black North American and African theologies. The book is thus a pioneering work and represents sustained reflection on Pan-Africanism as a praxis of struggle and mode of African spirituality. Josiah Young argues that Pan-Africanism is an indispensable orientation for blacks who reject the alienation wrought by white supremacy and desire to grow in Afrocentric commitments to the black poor of Africa and Diaspora.
The book aims, on the one hand, to deepen the knowledge of the composite character of Caribbean culture by showing the diversity of the cultural contributions of its African origins. On the other hand, through a census of popular traditions, artistic and literary, it demonstrates the fact that the secularization of indigenous and imported sacred forms led to the vitalization of contemporary artistic genres in the West Indies. This process thus articulates the dialectic of unity of the Caribbean and the New World.
This book is designed as a textbook for use in seminaries, Bible colleges and universities that have sprouted with vigor in Africa. It is ideologically driven to build a group of church historians who will tell the story of African Christianity, not Christianity in Africa, as an African story, by intentionally privileging the patterns of African agency without neglecting the noble roles played by missionaries.
A name reflects and reinforces an identity both when it is given and when it is changed. African Muslim Names discusses the social and cultural significance of proper names. It explains how names are chosen for newborns in African societies and the values they represent. In these days of mounting interest in identity and culture, many Muslim Africans and African-Americans and others wish to know the meanings of the names they choose so that they reflect their aspirations for their children and themselves.
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa, Kalu provides an alternative trans-national discourse that is sensitive to local identities, appropriations, and contestations of global processes.
In essay after essay in this volume, he demonstrates the courage to blaze a new path, offer new, bold insights, render prevailing discourse obsolete, and set sail a new one in the treacherous academic waters by shifting the terms, accent, and drift of the old one.
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa, Kalu provides an alternative trans-national discourse that is sensitive to local identities, appropriations, and contestations of global processes.
In essay after essay in this volume, he demonstrates the courage to blaze a new path, offer new, bold insights, render prevailing discourse obsolete, and set sail a new one in the treacherous academic waters by shifting the terms, accent, and drift of the old one.
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