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Is Africa incurably religious? : secularization and discipleship in Africa /

"The contributions in the volume question the widespread thesis that Africa is 'incurably religious' by studying both the presence and meaning of secularization in sub-Saharan Africa and among the African diaspora. This exercise requires sustained interest in the notion of secularizat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Declining Religious Participation (Conference), Is Africa Incurably Religious? (Conference)
Otros Autores: Toren, Bernard van den, 1966- (Editor ), Bangura, Joseph Bosco (Editor ), Seed, Richard E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Regnum Books International, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Regnum studies in mission.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I. Secularization and Africa's Cultural and Religious Traditions
  • Religious Indifference and Critique in Traditional Africa / Eloi Messi-Metogo
  • Factors inherent in African traditional religions that lead to the secularization of faith / Abel Ngarsouledé
  • Western secularization, African worldviews and the church / Richard E. Seed
  • PART II. Secularization, Modernization & Globalization in Today's Africa
  • What do we mean by secularization in Africa? : contributions and limitations by the western secularization discourse / Henk van den Bosch
  • Do science and scientific education contribute to secularization in Africa? : an exploration among Christian academics and students in Abidjan and Yaoundé . Klaas Bom
  • At the intersection of worldviews : secularism and the African context of theological students in Kenya / Richard E. Seed
  • African Neo-Pentecostalism in the face of secularization : problems and possibilities / Benno van den Toren
  • Secularization among the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya / Nancy Njagi, Colin Smith
  • Signs of secularization and challenges for discipleship among the urban elite in Yaoundé, Cameroon : a personal reflection / Epiemembong Louis Ebong
  • Secularization influences on second generation and mixed-race African Pentecostal migrants in Flanders (Belgium) / Joseph Bosco Bangura
  • Part III. Christian Discipleship in the Context of Modernity
  • The relationship between the creation mandate and the mission mandate : intercultural reflections on African Christian discipleship in a secularized world / Benno van den Toren
  • Endangered discipleship : secular and religious resistance in Africa / David E. Bjork
  • African neo-Charismatic discipleship in a context of secularization / Joseph Bosco Bangura
  • A selection of bibliographic sources on secularization in Africa.