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Author : Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi
Release : 1992
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 801/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Critiques of Christianity in African Literature by : Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi
Download or read book Critiques of Christianity in African Literature written by Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ali Yiğit
Release : 2024-05-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti by : Ali Yiğit
Download or read book Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti written by Ali Yiğit. This book was released on 2024-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships. Christian missionaries did not come to Africa for: their own interests, the Christianization of Africa, European colonial projects, the interests of Africans, the establishment of European civilization in Africa, but came for all. Once, there was a dialogue between the Christian missionaries and pagan Africans which was in time replaced by contest for superiority, and finally by conflict. Accordingly, the countenance of the continent has changed forever.
Author : Thomas G. Kirsch
Release : 2011
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spirits and Letters by : Thomas G. Kirsch
Download or read book Spirits and Letters written by Thomas G. Kirsch. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between 'charisma' and 'institution' by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the continuing anthropological interest in Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity, and representing the first book-length treatment of literacy practices among African Christians, this volume explores how church leaders in Zambia refer to the Bible and other religious literature, and how they organise a church bureaucracy in the Pentecostal-charismatic mode. Thus, by examining social processes and conflicts that revolve around the conjunction of Pentecostal-charismatic and literacy practices in Africa, Spirits and Letters reconsiders influential conceptual dichotomies in the social sciences and the humanities and is therefore of interest not only to anthropologists but also to scholars working in the fields of African studies, religious studies, and the sociology of religion.
Author : Ali Yiğit (English literature scholar)
Release : 2024
Genre : African literature (English)
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Book Synopsis Christianity and the African Counter-discourse in Achebe and Beti by : Ali Yiğit (English literature scholar)
Download or read book Christianity and the African Counter-discourse in Achebe and Beti written by Ali Yiğit (English literature scholar). This book was released on 2024. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichâes about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships. Christian missionaries did not come to Africa for their own interests, the Christianization of Africa, European colonial projects, the interests of Africans, the establishment of European civilization in Africa--but came for all. Once, there was a dialogue between the Christian missionaries and pagan Africans which was in time replaced by contest for superiority, and finally by conflict. Accordingly, the countenance of the continent has changed forever"--
Author : R. D. M. Kekana
Release : 2018
Genre : African literary criticism
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Book Rating : 619/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Religion in African Literary Criticism by : R. D. M. Kekana
Download or read book The Religion in African Literary Criticism written by R. D. M. Kekana. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
