Religious Plurality in Africa : : Essays in Honour of John S. Mbiti / / ed. by Jacob K. Olupona, Sulayman S. Nyang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Appiah-Kubi, Kofi,; Bediako, Kwame,; Booth, Newell S.,; Byaruhanga-Akiiki, A.B.T.,; Ferguson, John,; Greschat, Hans-Jürgen,; Hollenweger, Walter J.,; Kalu, Ogbu U.,; McKenzie, Peter R.,; Nyang, Sulayman S.,; Oder Oruka, H.,; Oduyoye, Mercy A.,; Olupona, Jacob K.,; Oosthuizen, Gerhardus C.,; Opoku, Kofi Asare,; Pobee, John S.,; Setiloane, Gabriel M.,; Von Sicard, Sigvard,; Weber, Hans-Ruedi,; Westerlund, David,; Zwi Werbloxvsky, R. J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Nyang, Sulayman S.,; Olupona, Jacob K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 32
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (455 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword: Listening to Africa
• Preface: Religious plurality in Africa
• Table of Contents
• A biographical sketch
• Introduction: Issues and perspectives on religious plurality in Africa
• I The Study of African Traditional Religion
• The study of African religions in retrospect from “Westernization” to “Africanization”?
• African traditional religion: An enduring heritage
• Time and African beliefs revisited
• Traditional African healing system versus Western medicine in Southern Ghana: An encounter
• Gods as policemen: Religion and social control in Igboland
• II African Theology
• African theology revisited
• Civil authority — From the perspective of African Theology
• The Bible and oral tradition
• III Africa and Christianity
• Africa and Christianity: Domestication of Christian values in the African church
• African independent churches and theological scholarship in Germany
• The issue of social justice and order in Africa
• IV Africa and Some World Religions
• Islamic revivalism in West Africa: Historical perspectives and recent developments
• Christian-Muslim relations in Africa
• The place and role of India's religions in Africa
• Africa and Judaism: Retrospect, problems, and prospects
• V Responses to John Mbiti’s work
• Mbiti’s work on African religion as reflected in the perceptions of students in a British university
• A critique of Mbiti’s view on love and marriage in Africa
• John Mbiti’s contribution to African theology
• John Mbiti’s contribution to African philosophy
• Bibliography
• Notes on contributors
• Subject Index
• Index of Names and Authors