Resolving the Prevailing Conflicts Between Christianity and African (Igbo) Traditional Religion Through Inculturation
Title | Resolving the Prevailing Conflicts Between Christianity and African (Igbo) Traditional Religion Through Inculturation PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Anaegboka Udoye |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 364390116X |
For not integrating initially some of the good elements in Igbo culture, many Igbo Christians have double personality - Christian personality and traditional personality. They are Christians on Sundays but traditionalists on weekdays. To combat such an anomalous situation, in imitation of Christ's effort at completing what was lacking in the Jewish religion, author Edwin Udoye proposes radical inculturation. His book equally contains many serious theological reflections such that it recommends itself to both theologians and the scholars researching on the religions of the world. Udoye has therefore made a very significant contribution worthy of commendation to both theological and religious studies.
Inculturation as Dialogue
Title | Inculturation as Dialogue PDF eBook |
Author | Chibueze C. Udeani |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9042022299 |
Although Africa is today often seen, because of its large number of Christians, as the future hope of the Church, a closer examination of African Christianity, however, shows that the Christian faith has not taken deep root in Africa. Many Africans today declare themselves to be Christians but still remain followers of their traditional African religions, especially in matters concerning the inner dimensions of their lives. It is evident that, in strictly personal matters relating to such issues as passage rites and crises, most Africans turn to their African traditional religions. As an incarnational faith, part of the history of Christianity has been its encounter with other cultures and its becoming deeply rooted in some of these cultures. The central question remains: Why has the Christian faith not taken deep root in Africa? This volume is concerned with answering this question.
Christianity and the Igbo Rites of Passage
Title | Christianity and the Igbo Rites of Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Ok Onuh |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Religion |
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Owing to their value and strategic importance in the people's mentality and culture, this work proposes the Igbo Rites of Passage as a necessary parameter and a transmitting wave-length for a firm rooting of the christian faith among the Igbos.
Being a Christian in Igbo Land
Title | Being a Christian in Igbo Land PDF eBook |
Author | Eze Ikechukwu |
Publisher | Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 383253542X |
It is not always a comfortable position to question the position of a good majority. However, it is known that the majority can sometimes be wrong or see things differently. It takes courage and a particularly critical mind to question the depth of the Christian Faith in a land seen as the future of Christianity in Africa. As a Priest with some pastoral experience both in Africa and in Europe, the Author is at home with the subject matter in this book. He accepts the fact of the growing numbers in the churches but questions the depth of conviction in the face of the problems arising from the clash of values between Christian Faith and Igbo Traditional Religion. He maintains that, if God saw enough reasons to create men differently and revealed himself differently to them, he - God accepts that men have different understandings of his relationship with them and that they may relate with him using what is available to them - their Culture and Tradition.
The Significant Role of Initiation in the Traditional Igbo Culture and Religion
Title | The Significant Role of Initiation in the Traditional Igbo Culture and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | George Nnaemeka Oranekwu |
Publisher | Iko |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
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In the face of the difficult task of inculturating the Christian faith in Igboland, christianizing the Igbo and igbonizing Christianity, this book offers an interesting and inspiring study of Igbo traditional initiation forms in comparison with the Christian sacraments of initiation. Because of its characteristic features and the significant role in Igbo tradition and culture, it proposes traditional Igbo initiation forms as inculturation basis for pastoral catechesis of Christian initiation.
Igbo Culture and Gospel
Title | Igbo Culture and Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ukpong |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3643905297 |
Pope John Paul II speaks in "Ecclesia in Africa" (1995) of the necessity for the church to inculturate itself into the cultures of the African peoples. This book shows what makes inculturation in Africa a necessity. Against the background of a socio-empircal study it becomes understandable, why in the history of mission, from a European-religious perspective much remains misunderstood and causes distress until today. The author focuses on the 'way of Inculturation" showing how a "rooting of the Gospel in Africa" could be possible and sustainable. (Series: Biblical Perspectives for Annunciation and Teaching / Biblische Perspektiven fur Verkundigung and Unterricht, Vol. 7) [Subject: Theology, African Studies]
Mmanwu and Mission among the Igbo People of Nigeria
Title | Mmanwu and Mission among the Igbo People of Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Adolphus Chikezie Anuka |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3643910630 |
The joy over the growth of Christianity in Africa is also a challenge to all concerned to help Christianity take roots, ennoble and become one with the cultural life of the numerous tribes of Africa. This missionary expectation is not yet fully realized in many local churches in Africa. From these perspectives, Adolphus Chikezie Anuka inaugurates a new brand of concrete, target-oriented emphasis on dialogical inculturation. In this book, the Mmanwu cultural institution of the Igbo people of south eastern Nigeria stands in central focus, opening itself to the influences of Christian values as well as speaking to the religious assumptions of Christianity. The theoretical results of this research work and its practical pastoral suggestions are both enlightening and appealing.