Faith in African Lived Christianity : : Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives / / edited by Karen Lauterbach and Mika Vähäkangas.

• Superior document: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies ; Volume 35
• TeilnehmendeR: Lauterbach, Karen,; Vähäkangas, Mika,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; Volume 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"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 religious experiences shape the understanding of social life in Africa. The volume is a collection of chapters by prominent Africanist theologians, anthropologists and social scientists, who take people's faith as their starting point and analyze it in a contextually sensitive way. It covers discussions of positionality in the study of African Christianity, interdisciplinary methods and approaches and a number of case studies on political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality"-- Provided by publisher.

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.