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Conversion as a Social Process: A History of Missionary Christianity among the Valley Tonga, Zambia - Couverture souple

Luig, Ulrich

 
9783753417349: Conversion as a Social Process: A History of Missionary Christianity among the Valley Tonga, Zambia
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ISBN 10 : 3753417343 ISBN 13 : 9783753417349
Editeur : Books on Demand, 2021

Synopsis

Conversion as a Social Process presents a detailed and multi-facetted account of the genesis of an African mission church in Southern Zambia. Its main theme is the transformation of European missionary Christianity into an important medium for Africans to negotiate creatively the challenges of the modern world. The first part of this case study scrutinizes the contextual conditions, and the consequences, of the translation process of the European missionary message into the forms of African culture and modes of thought. The second part analyses the developments of post-colonial and post-missionary African Christianity in a rural setting. It argues that Christian ethics and world view offer new means of self-identification in a complex world. Drawing on local oral sources, archival material and ethnographic literature the book represents a new genre of intercultural Church history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ulrich Luig, born 1945 in Berlin (Germany), studied Protestant theology at Berlin and received a Ph.D. in missiology and religious science from Humboldt University at Berlin. He worked in a rural development project with the Gossner Mission and as a UCZ pastor at the Gwembe Valley/Zambia from 1987 until 1990. After his return from Zambia he worked as a lecturer in missiology and religious science at Humboldt University and as a chaplain at Mainz University thereafter.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Conversion as a Social Process presents a detailed and multi-facetted account of the genesis of an African mission church in Southern Zambia. Its main theme is the transformation of European missionary Christianity into an important medium for Africans to negotiate creatively the challenges of the modern world. The first part of this case study scrutinizes the contextual conditions, and the consequences, of the translation process of the European missionary message into the forms of African culture and modes of thought. The second part analyses the developments of post-colonial and post-missionary African Christianity in a rural setting. It argues that Christian ethics and world view offer new means of self-identification in a complex world. Drawing on local oral sources, archival material and ethnographic literature the book represents a new genre of intercultural Church history.

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Éditeur
Books on Demand
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3753417343
ISBN 13 
9783753417349
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
322
Coordonnées du fabricant
Books on Demand GmbH
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