The African Christian Diaspora
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Author |
: Afe Adogame |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2013-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441136671 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441136673 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Christian Diaspora by : Afe Adogame
Informative guide offering interpretation and analysis of African immigrant Christianities in Western societies and their impact on the wider local-global religious scene.
Author |
: Roswith Gerloff |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2011-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441123305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 144112330X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora by : Roswith Gerloff
An exploration of the rapid development of African Christianity, offering an analysis and interpretation of its movements and issues.
Author |
: R. Marie Griffith |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2006-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801883695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801883699 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Religion in the African Diaspora by : R. Marie Griffith
This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.
Author |
: Afe Adogame |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2013-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441196989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441196986 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Christian Diaspora by : Afe Adogame
The last three decades have witnessed a rapid proliferation of African Christian communities, particularly in Europe and North American diaspora, thus resulting in the remapping of old religious landscapes. This migratory trend and development bring to the fore the crucial role, functions and import of religious symbolic systems in new geo-cultural contexts. The trans-national linkages between African-led churches in the countries of origin (Africa) and the "host" societies are assuming increasing importance for African immigrants. The links and networks that are established and maintained between these contexts are of immense religious, cultural, economic, political and social importance. This suggests how African Christianities can be understood within processes of religious transnationalism and African modernity. Based on extensive religious ethnography undertaken by the author among African Christian communities in Europe, the USA and Africa in the last 17 years, this book maps and describes the incipience and consolidation of new brands of African Christianities in diaspora. The book demonstrates how African Christianities are negotiating and assimilating notions of the global while maintaining their local identities.
Author |
: William Ackah |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2017-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315466194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315466198 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora by : William Ackah
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and social organizations that house African spiritual expression in tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students interested in the study of African religions, race and religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.
Author |
: H. Harris |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2006-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230601048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230601049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Yoruba in Diaspora by : H. Harris
The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit possession, and divination through dreams and visions.
Author |
: Toyin Falola |
Publisher |
: University Rochester Press |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580464529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580464521 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Diaspora by : Toyin Falola
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in North America. This historic displacement has meant that Africans are irrevocably connected to economic and political developments in the West and globally. Among the known legacies of the diaspora are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these same factors worked to spur the scattering of Africans are not fully understood -- by those who were part of this migration or by scholars, historians, and policymakers. In this definitive study of the diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. Reengaging old and familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich the discourse surrounding Africa, Falola isolates the thread, running nearly six centuries, that connects the history of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and current migrations. A boon to scholars and policymakers and accessible to the general reader, the book explores diverse narratives of migration and shows that the cultures that migrated from Africa to the Americas have the capacity to unite and create a new pan-Africanist movement within the globalized world. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association and serves as the vice president of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. His previous books published by the University of Rochester Press include The Power of African Cultures and Nationalism and African Intellectuals.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2019-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004412255 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004412255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Faith in African Lived Christianity by :
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.
Author |
: Carolyn M. Jones Medine |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 509 |
Release |
: 2015-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137498052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137498056 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora by : Carolyn M. Jones Medine
Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world. The volume focuses on the continent, on African identity in globalization, and on African religion in cultural change.
Author |
: Olufemi Vaughan |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2016-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822373872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822373874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and the Making of Nigeria by : Olufemi Vaughan
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.