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Religion and faith in Africa : confessions of an animist /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orobator, A. E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2018]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Faith of my father, spirit of my mother
  • Africa, my Africa
  • The medicine room
  • Inside the mind of an animist
  • Animism embodied
  • Some guiding instructions for the road
  • The miracle of a century
  • So, once upon a time. . . .
  • The apostle and the queen
  • The missionaries are coming
  • Let the scramble begin
  • Reading between the lines
  • Beware of gifts
  • The mode of the receiver
  • Numbers don't lie?
  • A marketplace of faiths
  • What's in a name?
  • What about Islam?
  • Sowers and reapers of wrath
  • Religion and politics
  • Below the surface
  • The dark side of light
  • The spirit of African religion
  • Pathological performance and prophetic practice
  • The ghost and the darkness
  • A religion of underdevelopment
  • Religion works
  • Pathological performance
  • Prophetic practice
  • Healing the earth, healing humanity
  • Tears of a woman
  • The enemy is us
  • Creative animism
  • Ecological gratitude
  • Ecology as fullness of life
  • Ecology as covenant
  • The backbone of the church or gender rhetoric
  • Numbers, words, and beyond
  • Evolution and revolution
  • An inventory of inequality
  • Untapped leadership potential
  • African women changing the face of theology
  • Backbone of the church
  • The flourishing of religions
  • Things are happening everywhere in Africa
  • Christians are talking, singing, preaching, writing, arguing, discussing
  • The root of all evil?
  • Religion of the people, by the people, and for the people
  • Conclusion
  • Could this be an empty show?
  • Suggested readings
  • African religious and spiritual traditions in contemporary scholarship
  • African Christianity and mission in history
  • African women in theological discourse
  • African theology, ethics, and church.