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Working with new insights on the influence that Christian
translations of Scriptures and catechisms into African languages
had on cultural self-understanding, social awakening, religious
renewal, reciprocity in mission, process, Sanneh shows that mission
and translation were and continue to be integral parts of cultural
renewal in the face of the relentless onslaught of imperialism in
its classic and contemporary forms.
This fascinating study explores the ?clash of civilizations?
between the secular government and Muslim traditions in West
Africa, appraising the challenge of separating the administration
of the state from the deeply held beliefs of the Islamic peoples of
the region. Lamin Sanneh, awarded Senegal's highest national honor
for his scholarly work, pla
This fascinating study explores the "clash of civilizations"
between the secular government and Muslim traditions in West
Africa, appraising the challenge of separating the administration
of the state from the deeply held beliefs of the Islamic peoples of
the region. Lamin Sanneh, awarded Senegal's highest national honor
for his scholarly work, places Islam within the context of Africa's
receptive and pluralist environment, explores the religious and
historical background of present-day conflicts, and shows that
achieving solutions will depend equally upon Christian and Muslim
theological resources. As Sanneh explains, Muslims took advantage
of Africa's religious tolerance to begin a process of change that
culminated in a unified Islamic view of religion, state, and
society. European colonialism and missionary efforts both bolstered
and complicated the development of this faith as a result of the
pressures secularism brought to bear on Islamic tradition. Sanneh
points out that perhaps ironically, due to the same tolerance of
differences, Christianity was able to flourish in parts of Africa,
and its followers more readily supported the Western secular idea
of the separation of church and state. Offering a comprehensive
evaluation of the key points of colonial and interreligious
friction, Sanneh explores the effects of conflict of belief on
religious, educational, and political institutions in the region.
The book will be essential reading for students of comparative
religion, African studies, missions, and Islam.
This collection articulates a specifically African approach to
Islam as a resource for theological students and pastors and as an
African contribution to the global discourse in the post 9/11
world.
"The issue . . . in the multicultural millennium is not so much the
'Islamization' of a once-Christian culture as the emergence, with
state collusion, of discrete territories where vastly different
norms prevail, shut off and resentful, a breeding ground for
ferment and a target for hostility." In the aftermath of the London
suicide bombings, this unusual book seems more prophetic than ever.
Begun six years before 9/11, it examined the roots of political
Islam and its offshoots in Britain. In describing the indifference
of policy makers and government officials to religion, it warned of
extremism taking root among disaffected young Muslims--and offered
a vision of hope tempered with realism that might have helped avert
tragedy had it been more widely heeded. The book's timely
republication offers another chance to understand the roots of our
present crisis--and a way out of it. Lamin Sanneh, himself a former
Muslim, explores the history of Islam's always controversial
accommodations with the West. Jenny Taylor's debut contribution
engages critically at the grassroots level, looking in detail at
Islam in Britain, its mission and tactics, and the State's
inadequate response to them. "Neglect would appear to have been
government policy." Lesslie Newbigin describes the loss of a sense
of direction in the West as bankrupt secular ideologies confront
fundamentalism with politically correct platitudes or coercive
legislation that is destroying the West's historic freedoms. All
three authors call for a radical Christian critique to replace the
false and evidently failed policies of neutrality of the State.
Summoned from the Margin tells the story of Lamin Sanneh's
fascinating journey from his upbringing in an impoverished village
in West Africa to education in the United States and Europe to a
distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale, Harvard,
Aberdeen, and Ghana. He grew up in a polygamous household in The
Gambia and attended a government-run Muslim boarding school. A
chance encounter with Helen Keller's autobiography taught him that
education and faith are the key to overcoming physical and personal
hardship and inspired his journey. Burning theological questions
about God's nature and human suffering eventually led Sanneh to
convert from Islam to Christianity and to pursue a career in
academia. Here he recounts the unusually varied life experiences
that have made him who he is today. Watch the trailer:
Communicating God's Word in a Complex World reaches out to the
growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and
teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing
with communicating the gospel. This is increasingly difficult in
today's pluralist and global contexts. What was God's message, and
how has spreading that message changed through the generations? The
answer to that question requires a hermeneutical process that seeks
to understand the biblical text and the context in which it was
originally presented. R. Daniel Shaw and Charles Van Engen say that
contemporary proclaimers of God's word can model their approach
after that of the writers of scripture, who reinterpreted and
restated their received texts for their audiences. Thus, Gospel
communication is impacted by the way humans know God. This, in
turn, is informed by contexts. Communicating God's Word in a
Complex World draws lessons from the biblical authors themselves as
a guide for how best to present God's message.
Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world
have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's
Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60
percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This
change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of
Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis,
and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role
of Africa as the new Christian heartland. The questions and answers
about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being developed
in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years
to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this
sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity. Some
contributions consider the development of "non-Western" forms of
Christianity, others look at the impact of these new Christianities
in the West. The authors cover a wide range of topics, from the
integration of witchcraft and Christianity in Nigeria and the
peacemaking role of churches in Mozambique to the American Baptist
reception of Asian Christianity. The Changing Face of Christianity
shows the striking cultural differences between the new world
Christianity and its western counterpart. But with so many new
immigrants in Europe and North America, the faith's fault lines are
not purely geographical. The new Christianity now thrives in
American and European settings, and northerners need to know this
faith better. At stake is their ability to be good neighbors-and
perhaps to be good Christian citizens of the world.
In 1792 nearly 1,200 freed American slaves crossed the Atlantic and
established in Freetown, West Africa, a community dedicated to
anti-slavery and opposed to the African chieftain hierarchy that
was tied to slavery. Thus began an unprecedented movement with
critical long-term effects on the evolution of social, religious,
and political institutions in modern Africa.
Lamin Sanneh's engrossing book narrates the story of freed
slaves who led efforts to abolish the slave trade by attacking its
base operation: the capture and sale of people by African chiefs.
Sanneh's protagonists set out to establish in West Africa colonies
founded on equal rights and opportunity for personal enterprise,
communities that would be havens for ex-slaves and examples to the
rest of Africa. Among the most striking of these leaders is the
Nigerian Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a recaptured slave who joined a
colony in Sierra Leone and subsequently established satellite
communities in Nigeria. The ex-slave repatriates brought with them
an evangelical Christianity that encouraged individual spirituality
-- a revolutionary vision in a land where European missionaries had
long assumed they could Christianize the whole society by
converting chiefs and rulers.
Tracking this potent African American anti-slavery and
democratizing movement through the nineteenth century, Lamin Sanneh
draws a clear picture of the religious grounding of its conflict
with the traditional chieftain authorities. His study recounts a
crucial development in the history of West Africa.
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