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.
| ISBN: | 9789004245105 |
| Publication date: | 2nd May 2013 |
| Author: | Adrian Hastings |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 434 pages |
| Series: | Studies of Religion in Africa |
| Genres: |
Religion: general Cultural studies |
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.
Christianity and the African Imagination features in the following genres: Religion: general, Cultural studies
Christianity and the African Imagination is available in Paperback
Christianity and the African Imagination was written by Adrian Hastings and published by Brill
Christianity and the African Imagination has 434 pages
Yes it is part of Studies of Religion in Africa series