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Black Christians and White Missionaries (Paperback): Richard Gray Black Christians and White Missionaries (Paperback)
Richard Gray
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, one of the world's leading scholars on the history of religion in Africa shows how Christianity has been transformed as it has been adopted by black Africans, from the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century to the present. Richard Gray finds that Africans have not meekly accepted monolithic Western practices and interpretations but have appropriated Christian faith for specific needs and added to it insights of their own. "Gray's theological conclusions are fascinating, and the book forms a useful contribution to the study of missions in Africa."-Eugeniah Adoyo, Theological Book Review "Gray's most significant contribution is his essay that compares differing concepts of evil in the cosmologies of Christianity and traditional African religions. This compact, well-written volume has extensive footnotes. It is recommended for specialists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates."-Choice "A thoughtful and informative book, well worth reading."-Joseph C. McKenna, Theological Studies "Concrete and detailed cases support Gray's lucid account of this transformation in Africa."-Wyatt MacGaffey, American Historical Review "The work of a master historian and demonstrates archival detective work and scholarly analysis at its finest. Anyone interested in the introduction and development of Christianity in Africa will find this book particularly valuable."-Roger B. Beck, History: Reviews of New Books "Christianity in Africa has too often been written about by those who recognize only its sociological consequences. Gray . . . writes . . . with insights that are not found often enough in studies of black Christians and white (and black) missionaries in Africa, and this is welcome."-M. Louise Pirouet, International Journal of the African Historical Society

The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision - A Sixieth Anniversary Tribute to Harold S. Bender (Paperback, illustrated edition): Guy... The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision - A Sixieth Anniversary Tribute to Harold S. Bender (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Guy F Hershberger
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pillars of Faith - American Congregations and Their Partners (Paperback): Nancy Tatom Ammerman Pillars of Faith - American Congregations and Their Partners (Paperback)
Nancy Tatom Ammerman
R872 R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Save R72 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the close of the twentieth century the United States was, by all accounts, among the most religious of modern Western nations. Pillars of Faith describes the diversity of tradition and the commonality of organizational strategy that characterize the more than 300,000 congregations in the United States, arguing that they provide the social bonds, spiritual traditions, and community connections that are vital to an increasingly diverse society. Nancy Tatom Ammerman follows several traditions--Mainline Protestant, Conservative Protestant, African American Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox, Jewish, Sectarian, and other religions--as they establish discernible patterns of congregational life that fit their own history, tradition, and relationship to American society. Her methodologically sophisticated study balances survey research with interviews conducted with people from ninety-one different religious traditions and ethnographic observations that yield new information on many dimensions of American congregational life. Her book is the first to depict the complex resource base supporting American congregations, the enormous web of partners with whom congregations work, and the range of institutional patterns they exhibit. Contrary to many gloomy forecasts, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners argues that organized religion in the United States is robust and vigorous--and that it can handle the increasing demands of escalating diversity and mobility the future is sure to bring.

Missionary Methods, St. Paul's or Ours - A Study of the Church in the Four Provinces (Paperback): Roland Allen Missionary Methods, St. Paul's or Ours - A Study of the Church in the Four Provinces (Paperback)
Roland Allen
R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Legitimacy Gap - Secularism, Religion, and Culture in Comparative Constitutional Law (Hardcover): Vincent Depaigne Legitimacy Gap - Secularism, Religion, and Culture in Comparative Constitutional Law (Hardcover)
Vincent Depaigne
R2,972 Discovery Miles 29 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides an account and explanation of a fundamental dilemma facing secular states: the 'legitimacy gap' left by the withdrawal of religion as a source of legitimacy. Legitimacy represents a particular problem for the secular state. The 'secular' in all its manifestations is very much linked to the historical rise of the modern state. It should not be seen as a category that separates culture and religion from politics, but rather as one that links these different dimensions. In the first part of the book, Depaigne explains how modern constitutional law has moved away from a 'substantive' legitimacy, based in particular on natural law, towards a 'procedural' legitimacy based on popular sovereignty and human rights. Depaigne examines three case studies of constitutional responses to legitimacy challenges which articulate the three main sources of 'procedural' legitimacy (people, rights, and culture) in different ways: the 'neutral model' (constitutions based on the 'displacement of culture'); the 'multicultural model' (constitutions based on diversity and pluralism); and the 'asymmetric model' (constitutions based on tradition). Even if secularization can be considered European in its origin, it is best seen today as a global phenomenon, which needs to be approached by taking into account the particular cultural dimension in which it is rooted. Depaigne's detailed study shows how secularization has moved either towards 'nationalization' linked to a particular national identity (as in France and, to some extent, in India)-or towards 'de-secularization', whereby secularism is displaced by particular cultural norms, as in Malaysia.

Missions - The Chief End of the Christian Church (Paperback): Alexander Duff Missions - The Chief End of the Christian Church (Paperback)
Alexander Duff
R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sancian ALS Tor Nach China - Kaspar Castners Bericht Uber Das Grab Des Heiligen Franz Xaver (English, German, Hardcover): Gerd... Sancian ALS Tor Nach China - Kaspar Castners Bericht Uber Das Grab Des Heiligen Franz Xaver (English, German, Hardcover)
Gerd Treffer, Thierry Meynard
R2,016 Discovery Miles 20 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Convent Paradise (Paperback): Arcangela Tarabotti, Meredith K Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater Convent Paradise (Paperback)
Arcangela Tarabotti, Meredith K Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The radical Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652), compelled against her will to become a nun, is well known for her scathing attacks on patriarchal institutions for forcing women into convents. Convent Paradise (1643), Tarabotti's first published work, instead invites the reader into the cloister to experience not only the trials of enclosure, but also its spiritual joys. In stark contrast to her other works, Convent Paradise aims to celebrate the religious culture that colored every aspect of Tarabotti's experience as a seventeenth-century Venetian and a nun. At the same time, this nuanced exploration of monastic life conveys a markedly feminist spirituality. Tarabotti's meditative portrait of the convent enriches our understanding of her own life and writing, while also providing a window into a spiritual destiny shared by thousands of early modern women. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Toronto Series volume 73

Inszenierte Loyalitaeten? - Die Neuapostolische Kirche in Der Ns-Zeit (German, Hardcover): Karl-Peter Krauss Inszenierte Loyalitaeten? - Die Neuapostolische Kirche in Der Ns-Zeit (German, Hardcover)
Karl-Peter Krauss
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Die Geschichte der Neuapostolischen Kirche in der NS-Zeit wird anhand bisher unerforschter Quellen aus vielen Archiven neu geschrieben. Die quellenkritische Analyse fuhrte schliesslich zu der Fragestellung und Analysekategorie der "inszenierten Loyalitaten". Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf den Akteuren und deren Handlungspraxis. So wird die formale und materiale NS-Belastung von Funktionstragern beleuchtet, die uberwachte Korrespondenz mit jener verglichen, die unter Umgehung der Zensur gefuhrt wurde, die Zeitschrift "Unsere Familie" einer kritischen Betrachtung unterzogen. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Einzelschicksalen neuapostolischer Christen judischer Herkunft sowie dem Umgang der Kirche mit ihnen. Damit liegt eine Grundlagenforschung zu vielen Themenbereichen aus einem dunklen Kapitel deutscher Geschichte vor.

Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover): Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, Elchanan Reiner Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Adam Shear, Elchanan Reiner
R1,761 Discovery Miles 17 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the last two decades, Jewish historians worldwide have developed and refined the discussion of an "early modern" period in Jewish culture, spanning roughly three centuries from 1500 to 1800, and have increasingly found this periodization to be a useful heuristic for interpreting historical developments.
Thirty-one leading scholars both within and beyond Jewish studies advance, refine, and challenge how we understand the Jewish early modern period. The collection includes a comprehensive range of topics, beginning by examining authority structures of Jewish communities following the expulsions and migrations that reshaped the geographical contours of the Jewish world. The formation of Jewish communities, communal autonomy, and cultural representations of leadership are explored, pointing to a geographical remapping of a Jewish early modernity that can contribute to a better understanding of the integrated economic and cultural landscape of the time. The volume then moves to consider Jewish intellectual life in light of demographic, political, and technological change--especially the advent of print culture. From there, the discussion moves to cultural and intellectual interchange, especially between Jews and Christians, and next, to eighteenth-century Jewish culture as a fulcrum of the early and late modernity. Finally, the book concludes by tracing the early modern as it is both etched into and effaced from later eras, reflecting on the project of historiography as both retelling the past and connecting to the past in the present.
Read individually, the essays in this volume are finely detailed case studies that illuminate specific aspects of Jewish culture. Read as a mosaic, the studies combine to form a rich and nuanced portrait of a culture that is both a contributor to and a product of early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Modern Analysis of Religious Practices (Hardcover, New): Timothy R Cullen Modern Analysis of Religious Practices (Hardcover, New)
Timothy R Cullen
R3,483 R2,719 Discovery Miles 27 190 Save R764 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a modern analysis of religious practices. Topics discussed include renewing Islamic discourse; the re-scripting of the Jihad; churches and campaign activity; continuity and change in prison chaplaincy; gender violence in Muslim societies; religion and politics in Malawi and a discussion of whether religion produces or reduces corruption, as well as the question of whether religion causes violence.

The First Christian Hymnal - The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church: Parallel Georgian-English Texts (Hardcover): Stephen J.... The First Christian Hymnal - The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church: Parallel Georgian-English Texts (Hardcover)
Stephen J. Shoemaker
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Howell Harris - From Conversion to Separation 1735-1750 (Hardcover): Geraint Tudur Howell Harris - From Conversion to Separation 1735-1750 (Hardcover)
Geraint Tudur
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work offers a modern appraisal of the Welsh Methodist leader and revivalist, Howell Harris. His influence on the development of early Methodism is charted and the period from his conversion in 1735 to his secession with Daniel Rowland is examined.

Churches That Make a Difference - Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works (Paperback): Ronald J. Sider, Philip N... Churches That Make a Difference - Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works (Paperback)
Ronald J. Sider, Philip N Olson, Heidi Rolland Unruh
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is your church meeting both the physical and spiritual needs of your community? Churches That Make a Difference explores the biblical mandate and how-to's of developing and maintaining an effective holistic ministry that combines evangelism and social outreach. This comprehensive resource will help your congregation embrace change, resolve conflict, overcome social barriers, and move into a life-changing outreach of holistic ministry. "When Sider, Olson, and Unruh call churches to engage in holistic ministry, they are calling us all back to the basics-to simply be faithful to the Gospel." Senator Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania "Those who want help in the integration of spiritual and social ministry will find that this book will give them the help they need." Commissioner John Busby, National Commander, Salvation Army "This is compulsive reading because it's not a set of ideas but realities that have been worked out in the ministry of local churches. I wholeheartedly commend it." Clive Calver, president, World Relief "A faith-based revolution is emerging with the church, taking its rightful and responsible place in the public square. I found this timely book to be an insightful and practical guide for the church to seize this unprecedented opportunity." Dave Donaldson, founder & CEO, We Care America "This timely book combines a theological and historical perspective with practical advice. Filled with detailed examples of ministries that are successfully addressing societal problems, it should be an influential and useful work." Robert L. Woodson Sr., president, National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise "A wonderful guide for churches that want to empower the poor and share the gospel."Rep. Tony P. Hall, U.S. Congressman (D-Ohio) "This book shows that churches, especially small churches, with vision, courage, and a biblically informed theology can be major players in transforming cities. It gave me great hope." Tony Campolo, professor of sociology, Eastern College "A biblically grounded, richly researched, and thoroughly useful guide to enacting holistic ministry in every congregation." Carl S. Dudley, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary "An extremely important book for congregations seeking to create ministries that reach the whole person, body and soul, with God's empowering love." Barbara Williams-Skinner, president, Skinner Leadership Institute "This is a good book on holistic ministry. It is excellent for the church in America and timely." Jesse Miranda, director, Center for Urban Studies and Ethnic Leadership, Vanguard University "This is an important book that will have a lasting impact on the role and vision of all our faith-based organizations." Bob Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA

Multifaith Spaces - History, Development, Design and Practice (Paperback): Terry Biddington Multifaith Spaces - History, Development, Design and Practice (Paperback)
Terry Biddington
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Multifaith spaces reflect the diversity of the modern world and enable a connection between individuals from different religious backgrounds. These spaces also highlight the complex and sensitive areas of political and social debates regarding the emergence of densely urbanised populations. They hold the potential to encourage connection and dialogue between members of different communities, promoting empathy, community and shared activity for the betterment of society. This book explores the history, development, design and practicalities of multifaith spaces from the early shared religious buildings that had to cater for two or more faiths, to the shared multifaith spaces of modern secular locations such as universities, airports and hospitals. Terry Biddington looks at the architectural, theological, social, legal and practical complexities that arise from the development and use of such spaces. The book also draws together research to enable further development of multifaith spaces.

Muslim Identity Politics - Islam, Activism and Equality in Britain (Paperback): Khadijah Elshayyal Muslim Identity Politics - Islam, Activism and Equality in Britain (Paperback)
Khadijah Elshayyal
R1,442 Discovery Miles 14 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The surge in divisive and far-right politics and growing Islamophobia in Britain pose new challenges for Muslim advocacy organisations. British Muslim activism has taken centre stage in the public sphere as a result. Yet for over fifty years Muslim advocacy groups have worked to preserve religious identity, lobby the state and provide concerted responses to the political establishment. This is the first book to chart critically the national and global factors influencing the political mobilisation of British Muslim activists as Muslims. Khadijah Elshayyal traces the changes of thought, direction and method within Muslim identity politics after 1960, noting key organisations and turning points such as the Rushdie Affair, the 9/11 attacks, the 7/7 bombings and the current conflict in Syria. The book argues that the Rushdie Affair prompted new debate around the subject of freedom of expression, which has continued to be a point of contention ever since. Providing a history of the interaction between Muslim advocacy groups and the state, and the impact of state policy on Muslim communities, Muslims Identity Politics shows that Muslim citizens continue to experience an `equality gap' and recommends where transformation and progress can be made. Based on primary sources and in-depth interviews, this book is a vital resource for government officials, policy-makers and researchers interested in multiculturalism, Islamophobia and security issues in Britain.

The Monk's Record Player - Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966 (Paperback, Reprint): Robert Hudson The Monk's Record Player - Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966 (Paperback, Reprint)
Robert Hudson; Foreword by David Dalton
R432 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
For LIfe World PB (Paperback): Schmemann For LIfe World PB (Paperback)
Schmemann
R391 R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Save R37 (9%) In Stock

In For the Life of the World Alexander Schmemann suggests an approach to the world and life within it, which stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Church. He understands issues such as secularism and Christian culture from the perspective of the unbroken experience of the Church, as revealed and communicated in her worship, in her liturgy-the sacrament of the world, the sacrament of the Kingdom. For over half a century For the Life of the World has challenged, illumined, and inspired readers from many backgrounds. For some it is an introduction to the Orthodox Church, while for others it is a call to plunge more deeply into the life of the Kingdom, both manifested and anticipated here and now in the liturgy of the Church. This updated edition of Schmemann's classic text includes a new foreword by Dr Edith M. Humphrey, along with new explanatory notes and an index.

Lutero - Huella Teologica De Un Precursor (Spanish, Paperback): Matias Cortez Lutero - Huella Teologica De Un Precursor (Spanish, Paperback)
Matias Cortez
R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mass Misunderstandings - The Mixed Legacy of the Vatican II liturgical Reforms (Paperback): Kenneth D. Whitehead Mass Misunderstandings - The Mixed Legacy of the Vatican II liturgical Reforms (Paperback)
Kenneth D. Whitehead
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first document enacted by the Second Vatican Council was its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, and the liturgical reform mandated by that document has probably had a greater impact on the average Catholic than any other action of the Council. That this liturgical reform has not in every respect been the unalloyed success hoped for by the Council Fathers, however, has only been grudgingly recognized. The liturgists and other Church officials responsible for implementing the reforms have had a vested interest in claiming success, even where there was evidence to the contrary. Nevertheless, the many and sometimes abrupt liturgical changes made were bound to affect long-established modes of worship and devotion - not to speak of the drastic move from Latin to the vernacular which came shortly after the Council, and which necessarily entailed radical change in the Church's worship. In July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI signaled that the liturgical question needed to be revisited when he issued a motu proprio that allowed, some forty-plus years after the end of the Council, a wider celebration of the unreformed pre-Vatican-II Mass in Latin as an "extraordinary" form of the Roman rite. While the pope's motu proprio was not a repudiation or cancellation of the Vatican II liturgical reforms - as some liturgists feared (and some traditionalists hoped) - it did indicate a sane and sensible papal recognition that liturgy must be developed organically, not "manufactured" by a "committee." Above all, the pope recognized that the question of the liturgy must be approached realistically in the light of how the reforms have actually worked out, not of how some have imagined that they might or should have worked out. This book by Kenneth D. Whitehead, who has written extensively both on Vatican II and on the liturgy, explains Pope Benedict's action in its proper context and describes the reactions to it, while making special reference to some of the pontiff's own extensive previous writings on the liturgy. The author then doubles back to evaluate the Vatican II liturgical reforms generally - how and why they were enacted, what has actually come about as a result of them, and how and why a "reform of the reform" is now called for.

The Ministry of the Missional Church - A Community Led by the Spirit (Paperback): Craig Van Gelder, Alan Roxburgh The Ministry of the Missional Church - A Community Led by the Spirit (Paperback)
Craig Van Gelder, Alan Roxburgh
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a time when churches are focusing on finding strategies and techniques to guarantee success, a movement toward the missional church is emerging. Missional churches are communities created by the Spirit with a unique nature and identity. Purpose and strategies of the church are derivative dimensions, the activities that flow naturally from the church that is focused on Spirit-led ministry.
"The Ministry of the Missional Church" leads pastors, ministry leaders, and laypersons through three simple arguments--the church is; the church does what it is; the church organizes what it does--in order to make sense of how missional churches work. And by focusing the work of the church as the work of the Triune God, this unique book will change the way readers think about the church and the world.

L'Eglise des laics - Le sacre en partage (XVIe-XXe siecle) (French, Paperback): Ariane Boltanski, Marie-Lucie Copete L'Eglise des laics - Le sacre en partage (XVIe-XXe siecle) (French, Paperback)
Ariane Boltanski, Marie-Lucie Copete
R1,015 Discovery Miles 10 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (Paperback): George M. Marsden Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (Paperback)
George M. Marsden
R567 R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Save R48 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this historical overview of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism, Marsden provides an introduction to the growing religious movements and a deeper analysis of two themes that have been especially prominent and controversial in these traditions -- views of science and views of politics.

La multiplication des disciples - Guide de conversation. De nouvelles facons de vivre Dieu et la communaute (French,... La multiplication des disciples - Guide de conversation. De nouvelles facons de vivre Dieu et la communaute (French, Paperback)
Peter Roennfeldt
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Diakonische Ethik - Systematisch-Theologische Beitrage (German, Paperback): Thorsten Moos Diakonische Ethik - Systematisch-Theologische Beitrage (German, Paperback)
Thorsten Moos
R1,714 Discovery Miles 17 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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