Christianity in Africa and the African diaspora : : the appropriation of a scattered heritage / / edited by Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, Klaus Hock.

• Superior document: Continuum religious studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Adogame, Afeosemime U. 1964-; Gerloff, Roswith I. H.,; Hock, Klaus, 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Continuum,, 2011.; 2008
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Paperback edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Continuum religious studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 pages).
• Notes: First published in 2008.; Proceedings of a conference held in 2003 in Berlin, Germany.

Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora offers new resources for the interpretation and analysis of African Christian movements. It draws attention to a number of key issues, including the translatability of the Christian faith, the process of contextualization in various cultures, the place...

Table of Contents

• Prologue / Dominique Kounkou
• Introduction / Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, and Klaus Hock
• Political or spiritual partition : the impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian missions in Africa / Olayemi Akinwumi
• Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent / Jonathan J. Bonk
• Colonization in Africa : the local and global implications for Christianity in contemporary Nigeria / Deji Ayegboyin
• The role of the churches in the struggle for liberation in Southern Africa : a thematic survey / Ezra Chitando
• Deconstructing colonial mission : new missiological perspectives in African Christianity / Abraham Akrong
• Baptists in Africa : a missionary church in action / Richard V. Pierard
• The empire fights back : the invention of African Anglicanism / Kevin Ward
• Imperial war-zones and frontiers of conversion / Andreas Heuser
• Paradigmatic shift : reconstruction of female leadership roles in the new generation churches in south-western Nigeria / Bolaji Olukemi Bateye
• From holy ground to virtual reality : Aladura gender practices in cyberspace : an African diaspora perspective / Deidre Helen Crumbley
• Petticoat partition or faith-full friendship?: motives and outcomes of British women's immigration to Africa from the scramble to the present / Deborah Gaitskell
• HIV/AIDS discourse and the quest for a rebirth in Africa : a theological perspective / Nico Botha
• Transnational religious networks and indigenous pentecostal missionary enterprises in the west African coastal region / Matthews A. Ojo
• The role of charismatic Christianity in reshaping the religious scene in Africa : the case of Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura
• "I will put my breath in you, and you will come to life" : charismatic renewal in Ghanaian mainline churches and its implications for African "diasporean" Christianity / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
• Churches of the Spirit : the pentecostal/charismatic movement and Africa's contribution to the renewal of Christianity / Roswith Gerloff
• Elements of African religious spiritual practices in African American worship : resounding practical theological implications / Antipas L. Harris
• Religion on the move : transcultural perspectives : discourses on diaspora religion between category formation and the quest for religious identity / Klaus Hock
• Who do they think they are?: mental images and the unfolding of an African diaspora in Germany / Afe Adogame
• " ... the land which the Lord your God giveth you" : two churches founded by African migrants in Oststadt, Germany / Evalgelos Karagiannis and Nina Glick Schiller
• Colonial politicization of religion : residual effects on the ministry of African-led churches in Britain / Dapo Asaju
• The implication of mission from a black Seventh-Day Adventist perspective, with reference to Britain, the Caribbean, and Africa / Herbert Griffiths
• Kimbanguism as a migrants' religion in Europe / Aurelien Mokoko Gampiot
• The position of African Christians in the Netherlands / Alle G. Hoekema
• An ecumenical challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century : koinonia vs. convivence / Benjamin Simon
• The "program for cooperation between German and foreign language churches" and African churches in the Rhein-Ruhr-region : developments from 1999 / Ursula Harfst.