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Author |
: Elizabeth A. Foster |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2019-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674987661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674987667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Catholic by : Elizabeth A. Foster
Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize A groundbreaking history of how Africans in the French Empire embraced both African independence and their Catholic faith during the upheaval of decolonization, leading to a fundamental reorientation of the Catholic Church. African Catholic examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of French sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the political transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to alter the church hierarchy to create an authentically “African” church. Elizabeth Foster recreates a Franco-African world forged by conquest, colonization, missions, and conversions—one that still exists today. We meet missionaries in Africa and their superiors in France, African Catholic students abroad destined to become leaders in their home countries, African Catholic intellectuals and young clergymen, along with French and African lay activists. All of these men and women were preoccupied with the future of France’s colonies, the place of Catholicism in a postcolonial Africa, and the struggle over their personal loyalties to the Vatican, France, and the new African states. Having served as the nuncio to France and the Vatican’s liaison to UNESCO in the 1950s, Pope John XXIII understood as few others did the central questions that arose in the postwar Franco-African Catholic world. Was the church truly universal? Was Catholicism a conservative pillar of order or a force to liberate subjugated and exploited peoples? Could the church change with the times? He was thinking of Africa on the eve of Vatican II, declaring in a radio address shortly before the council opened, “Vis-à-vis the underdeveloped countries, the church presents itself as it is and as it wants to be: the church of all.”
Author |
: Jordan Nyenyembe |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789956578337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9956578339 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Catholic Priests by : Jordan Nyenyembe
This is a timely book on the contemporary African priesthood. Just as in other parts of the globe, the African priesthood currently faces a serious crisis of identity. The unfolding crisis puts stress on the clerics and augments the tension with lay people. The model of the Church-as-Family of God opted for by the Church in Africa is a new milestone that puts pressure on Catholic priests to define their role in the new context. The identity and image of priests need to be specified as lay ministries render the Church active from the grassroots. Reflection about the ministry of the clergy in Africa is urgent, and indeed it is an important aspect of enculturation. Nyenyembe demonstrates an admirable capacity to situate his rich theological reflections in an African context.
Author |
: Elizabeth A. Foster |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2019-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674239449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 067423944X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Catholic by : Elizabeth A. Foster
Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize A groundbreaking history of how Africans in the French Empire embraced both African independence and their Catholic faith during the upheaval of decolonization, leading to a fundamental reorientation of the Catholic Church. African Catholic examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of French sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the political transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to alter the church hierarchy to create an authentically “African” church. Elizabeth Foster recreates a Franco-African world forged by conquest, colonization, missions, and conversions—one that still exists today. We meet missionaries in Africa and their superiors in France, African Catholic students abroad destined to become leaders in their home countries, African Catholic intellectuals and young clergymen, along with French and African lay activists. All of these men and women were preoccupied with the future of France’s colonies, the place of Catholicism in a postcolonial Africa, and the struggle over their personal loyalties to the Vatican, France, and the new African states. Having served as the nuncio to France and the Vatican’s liaison to UNESCO in the 1950s, Pope John XXIII understood as few others did the central questions that arose in the postwar Franco-African Catholic world. Was the church truly universal? Was Catholicism a conservative pillar of order or a force to liberate subjugated and exploited peoples? Could the church change with the times? He was thinking of Africa on the eve of Vatican II, declaring in a radio address shortly before the council opened, “Vis-à-vis the underdeveloped countries, the church presents itself as it is and as it wants to be: the church of all.”
Author |
: Ilo, Stan Chu |
Publisher |
: Orbis Books |
Total Pages |
: 1003 |
Release |
: 2022-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608339365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 160833936X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of African Catholicism by : Ilo, Stan Chu
"A disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today by engaging some of the most pressing and pertinent issues, topics, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism"--
Author |
: Emmanuel Obuna |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105073379963 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Priests and Celibacy by : Emmanuel Obuna
Author |
: Cyprian Davis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0824550080 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824550080 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Black Catholics in the United States by : Cyprian Davis
Author |
: Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E. |
Publisher |
: Orbis Books |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2016-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608336685 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608336689 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Church We Want by : Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
Featuring essays from a broad range of contributors this book is a treasure for anyone interested in theological reflection from an African perspective and is a necessary resource for theologians and scholars working in a church that is steadily moving its center to the Global South.
Author |
: Matthew J. Cressler |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2017-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479898121 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479898120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Authentically Black and Truly Catholic by : Matthew J. Cressler
Explores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity Chicago has been known as the Black Metropolis. But before the Great Migration, Chicago could have been called the Catholic Metropolis, with its skyline defined by parish spires as well as by industrial smoke stacks and skyscrapers. This book uncovers the intersection of the two. Authentically Black and Truly Catholic traces the developments within the church in Chicago to show how Black Catholic activists in the 1960s and 1970s made Black Catholicism as we know it today. The sweep of the Great Migration brought many Black migrants face-to-face with white missionaries for the first time and transformed the religious landscape of the urban North. The hopes migrants had for their new home met with the desires of missionaries to convert entire neighborhoods. Missionaries and migrants forged fraught relationships with one another and tens of thousands of Black men and women became Catholic in the middle decades of the twentieth century as a result. These Black Catholic converts saved failing parishes by embracing relationships and ritual life that distinguished them from the evangelical churches proliferating around them. They praised the “quiet dignity” of the Latin Mass, while distancing themselves from the gospel choirs, altar calls, and shouts of “amen!” increasingly common in Black evangelical churches. Their unique rituals and relationships came under intense scrutiny in the late 1960s, when a growing group of Black Catholic activists sparked a revolution in U.S. Catholicism. Inspired by both Black Power and Vatican II, they fought for the self-determination of Black parishes and the right to identify as both Black and Catholic. Faced with strong opposition from fellow Black Catholics, activists became missionaries of a sort as they sought to convert their coreligionists to a distinctively Black Catholicism. This book brings to light the complexities of these debates in what became one of the most significant Black Catholic communities in the country, changing the way we view the history of American Catholicism.
Author |
: George Mukuka |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105132781175 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other Side of the Story by : George Mukuka
Author |
: Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2021-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781666731309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1666731307 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Trajectories of Catholicism in Africa by : Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho
The book masterfully knits together the various curves and routes traveled so far by the Catholic Church in Africa. From an African perspective, the book presents a general trajectory of Catholicism on the continent by highlighting some significant events and moments in the evolution of the Catholic Church in Africa. It equally profiles the Vatican’s policy of indigenization as realized on the continent through the Africanization of the local episcopate. That policy prepared the way for the emergence of the local churches in Africa on the heels of the post-missionary phase that terminated with the convocation of the First African Synod of Bishops in 1994. Beyond the vicissitudes of the relatively recent past, the book boldly indicates the likely future shape and direction of African Catholicism. It contends that the future shape of the church in Africa may not be determined by a belabored inculturation, but instead by how the local churches concern themselves with concrete realities such as poverty, lack of opportunities, and ecological issues. It envisages a church that may not shy away from asserting itself within the mainstream ecclesiastical politics of global Catholicism where it must “connect, compete and collaborate.”