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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical
look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following
political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation
of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and
activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand
their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been
used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups,
which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence.
Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the
contributors to this multidisciplinary volume analyze the mutual
imbrications of media and religion during times of rapid
technological and social change in various places throughout
Africa.
"Babel is everywhere! Migrant readings from Africa, Europe and
Asia" sets out to explore the intersection between religion,
identity and migration. It does so by telling entangled histories
between diaspora/s and homeland and by analysing biblical in-roads
to issues and challenges of migration. It also explores hyphenated
identities and takes a close look at the role of migrant religion
specifically regarding issues of mission, of identity formation and
of ecclesial and societal formation. This book challenges static
notions of diaspora, stable identities and Western-centred notions
of Christianity and offers kaleidoscopic insights from Pentecostal,
migrant and intercultural perspectives.
Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural
Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with
particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora. The essays
span history, theology, anthropology, ecumenism, and missiology.
Readers will be treated to fresh perspectives on African
Pentecostal higher education, Pentecostalism and witchcraft in East
Africa, Methodist camp meetings in Ghana, Ghanaian diaspora
missions in Europe and North America, gender roles in South African
Christian communities, HIV/AIDS ministries in Uganda, Japanese
funerary rites, enculturation and contextualization principles of
mission, and many other aspects of the Christian world mission.
With essays from well-known scholars as well as young and emerging
men and women in academia, Communities of Faith illuminates current
realities of world Christianity and contributes to the scholarship
of today's worldwide Christian witness. "The great assumption of
this volume is that Africans, either residing on that great
continent or in diaspora around the world, are now the vibrant new
voices of a robust Christian faith which has finally left behind
the swaddling clothes of Christendom and found the strength and
vigor of its own voice. This volume is a masterful introduction to
these new voices precisely because of its diversity. Here we find
theological, contextual, anthropological, and missiological
reflections . . . revealing how nuanced and textured the African
contribution to world Christianity has already become. I can think
of no greater tribute to Tite Tienou than these essays written by
his students and friends." --Timothy C. Tennent, Asbury Theological
Seminary "This brilliant volume of twenty-five essays on many
aspects of global Christianity, with special attention to Africa
and the African diaspora, is a worthy tribute to one of our most
distinguished missiologists, Tite Tienou, whose career has spanned
three continents." --Gerald H. Anderson, Overseas Ministries Study
Center J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Paul Kwabena Boafo Elias K. Bongmba
Casely B. Essamuah Paul Kollman David K. Ngaruiya Caleb O. Oladipo
Steven D. H. Rasmussen Dana L. Robert Kenneth R. Ross Stephen
Strauss Angela M. Wakhweya Emma Wild-Wood Miriam Adeney Stephen B.
Bevans, SVD Jonathan J. Bonk William R. Burrows How Chuang Chua J.
Nelson Jennings Robert J. Priest Cathy Ross Mark Shaw Andrew F.
Walls Allen Yeh Casely B. Essamuah, ThD, is Global Missions Pastor
at Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the
author of Genuinely Ghanaian: A History of the Methodist Church,
Ghana, 1961-2000 (2010). David K. Ngaruiya, PhD, is Associate
Professor of Intercultural Studies and Deputy Vice Chancellor:
Finance, Administration, and Planning at the International
Leadership University, Nairobi, Kenya.
New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical
look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following
political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation
of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and
activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand
their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been
used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups,
which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence.
Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the
contributors to this multidisciplinary volume analyze the mutual
imbrications of media and religion during times of rapid
technological and social change in various places throughout
Africa.
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