Faith in African lived Christianity : bridging anthropological and theological perspectives /

Faith in African lived Christianity : bridging anthropological and theological perspectives /

Faith in African Lived Christianity - Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives offers a comprehensive, empirically rich and interdisciplinary approach to the study of faith in African Christianity. The book brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith and religiou...

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Other Authors: Lauterbach, Karen (Editor), Vähäkangas, Mika (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series; volume201.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

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Christianity > Africa.
Experience (Religion)
Africa > Religious life and customs.

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Call Number: BR1360 .F35 2020

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Foreword
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Faith in African Lived Christianity - Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives: Introduction /
  • Mika Vähäkangas and Karen Lauterbach
  • Normativity and Positionality in Anthropology and Theology
  • World Christianity and the Reorganization of Disciplines: On the Emerging Dialogue between Anthropology and Theology /
  • Joel Robbins
  • From Objects to Subjects of Religious Studies in Africa: Methodological Agnosticism and Methodological Conversion /
  • Frans Wijsen
  • Liberationist Conversion and Ethnography in the Decolonial Moment: a Finnish Theologian/Ethicist Reflects in South Africa /
  • Elina Hankela
  • Re-thinking the Study of Religion: Lessons from Field Studies of Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora /
  • Galia Sabar
  • Methods and Approaches: From Anthropology to Theology and Back
  • Fakery and Wealth in African Charismatic Christianity: Moving beyond the Prosperity Gospel as Script /
  • Karen Lauterbach
  • How to Respect the Religious Quasi-Other? Methodological Considerations in Studying the Kimbanguist Doctrine of Incarnation /
  • Mika Vähäkangas
  • Pentecostal Praise and Worship as a Mode of Theology /
  • Martina Prosén
  • The Sounds of the Christians in Northern Nigeria: Notes on an Acoustic History of Bachama Christianity /
  • Niels Kastfelt
  • What Has Kinshasa to Do with Athens? Methodological Perspectives on Theology and Social Science in Search for a Political Theology /
  • Elias Kifon Bongmba
  • Theology in Lived Religion: Case Studies
  • African Migrant Christianities - Delocalization or Relocalization of Identities? /
  • Stian Sørlie Eriksen, Tomas Sundnes Drønen and Ingrid Løland
  • Going to War: Spiritual Encounters and Pentecostals' Drive for Exposure in Contemporary Zanzibar /
  • Hans Olsson
  • The Dramatization and Embodiment of God of the Wilderness /
  • Isabel Mukonyora
  • Breathing Pneumatology: Spirit, Wind, and Atmosphere in a Zulu Zionist Congregation /
  • Rune Flikke
  • Gendered Narratives of Illness and Healing: Experiences of Spirit Possession in a Charismatic Church Community in Tanzania /
  • Lotta Gammelin
  • Revealed Medicine as an Expression of an African Christian Lived Spirituality /
  • Carl Sundberg
  • Back Matter
  • Index.