Domesticating a religious import
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Catholic theologians have developed the relatively new term “inculturation” to discuss the old problem of adapting the church universal to specific local cultures. Europeans needed a thousand years to inculturate Christianity from its Judaic roots. Africans’ efforts to make the church their own followed a similar process but in less than a century. Until now, there has been no book-length examination of the Catholic church’s pastoral mission in Zimbabwe or of African Christians’ efforts to inculturate the church.
Ranging over the century after Jesuit missionaries first settled in what is now Zimbabwe, this enlightening book reveals two simultaneous and intersecting processes: the Africanization of the Catholic Church by African Christians and the discourse of inculturation promulgated by the Church. With great attention to detail, it places the history of African Christianity within the broader context of the history of religion in Africa. This illuminating work will contribute to current debates about the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe and throughout Africa.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 april 2011
Aantal pagina's: 280
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Nicholas M. Creary
Hoofduitgeverij: Fordham University Press
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 165 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 241 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 635 g
EAN: 9780823233342