Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion

Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion
Title Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion PDF eBook
Author Helen C. John
Publisher BRILL
Pages 274
Release 2019-05-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004399313

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In Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion, Helen C. John juxtaposes grassroots biblical interpretations from Owamboland, Namibia, with professional interpretations of selected New Testament texts, effectively demonstrating the capacity of grassroots interpretations to destabilise, challenge and nuance dominant professional interpretations. John uses a cross-cultural and dialogical approach – ‘Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation Groups’ – to explore the relationship between African Traditional Religion (ATR), Christianity and biblical interpretation in Owamboland, Namibia. She contextualises the grassroots Owambo interpretations using fieldwork experiences and ethnographic literature, thus heightening the cross-cultural encounter. In particular, John reflects on Western epistemologies and the Eurocentric interpretative trends that are brought into relief by the African interpretations gathered in Owamboland.

African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective

African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective
Title African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective PDF eBook
Author Richard J. Gehman
Publisher East African Publishers
Pages 444
Release 2005
Genre Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN 9789966253545

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The Bible in Africa

The Bible in Africa
Title The Bible in Africa PDF eBook
Author Gerald West
Publisher BRILL
Pages 846
Release 2021-10-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004497102

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Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

African Traditional Religion

African Traditional Religion
Title African Traditional Religion PDF eBook
Author E. Bọlaji Idowu
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 1973
Genre Religion
ISBN

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African Traditional Religion in the Light of the Bible

African Traditional Religion in the Light of the Bible
Title African Traditional Religion in the Light of the Bible PDF eBook
Author Richard J. Gehman
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 2001
Genre Africa
ISBN

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Reading While Black

Reading While Black
Title Reading While Black PDF eBook
Author Esau McCaulley
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 215
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830854878

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Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address the urgent issues of our times. Demonstrating an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible, New Testament scholar Esau McCaulley shares a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation.

African Traditional Religion Encounters Christianity

African Traditional Religion Encounters Christianity
Title African Traditional Religion Encounters Christianity PDF eBook
Author John Chitakure
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 238
Release 2017-11-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 149824419X

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Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation. In fact, God uses people's environment and culture to communicate his will. There is no single religion that can claim to have the exclusive possession of God's revelation, for God is too immense to be confined within one faith. Hence, it was erroneous, blasphemous, and misleading for some of the early Christian missionaries to Africa to claim that they had brought God to Africa, a mentality that implied the non-existence of God in Africa before their arrival. Of course, God was already in Africa, but the missionaries either failed to discern his presence or just disregarded the traces of his existence. This book explores the religious beliefs, practices, and values of the indigenous people of Africa at the time of the early missionaries' arrival, with particular reference to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. It also evaluates the extent of the missionarie's successes and challenges in converting Africans to Christianity. It finally surveys how African Christians have remained attached to the indigenous religious beliefs that used to provide answers to their existential questions.