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Title Communities of faith in Africa and the African diaspora : in honor of Dr. Tite Tiénou : with additional essays on world Christianity / edited by Casely B. Essamuah and David K. Ngaruiya
Published Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 384 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword / Joel Carpenter -- The journey of Tite Tiénou / friends, colleagues, and former students -- "Enlarging Christian coasts": Pentecostalism and higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Wesleyan camp meeting history and the revitalization of Ghanaian Methodism / Paul Kwabena Boafo -- African immigrant religions in the diaspora / Elias K. Bongmba -- "Go ye into all the West": models of mission among Ghanaian Methodists in the diaspora / Casely B. Essamuah -- New angles on African Christianity / Paul Kollman -- The multifaceted genesis of the 2007-2008 postelection violence in Kenya / David K. Ngaruiya -- How indigenous traders brought Christianity to northern Nigeria / Caleb O. Oladipo -- Sickness and witches in northwestern Tanzania: listening to Pentecostal ministers / Steven D.H. Rasmussen -- Gender roles and recruitment in southern African churches, 1996-2001 / Dana L. Robert -- The role of personal friendships in effective cross-cultural Christian mission / Kenneth R. Ross -- Ethiopian Orthodox christology: interacting with an ancient African perspective / Stephen Strauss -- Alone and frightened in Uganda: living in the shadow of HIV / Angela M. Wakhweya-Essamuah -- African evangelists: the case of Apolo Kivebulaya / Emma Wild-Wood -- The medium and the message / Miriam Adeney -- Inculturation and the church's mission: theological and Trinitarian foundations / Stephen B. Bevans -- Pre-Christendom faith in a post-Christendom world / Jonathan J. Bonk -- World Christianity and the new ecumenical frontier / William R. Burrows -- Funerary rites and ancestral roles in Japan: reassessing their (non- )religious character / How Chuang Chua -- The 2008 financial crisis and the great commission / J. Nelson Jennings -- Researching contextualization in churches influenced by missionaries / Robert J. Priest -- "Please be extra vigilant": on being attentive to world Christianity / Cathy Ross -- Global evangelical theology: "Luke theology" and the dialogue of the deaf / Mark Shaw -- The 1860 Liverpool Conference on Missions / Andrew F. Walls -- Asia and Latin America: taking the gospel to the "ends of the earth" / Allen Yeh
Bibliography "A bibliography of the works of Tite Tiénou": pages 381-384
Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Christianity -- Africa
Christianity and culture -- Africa
Theology -- Africa
Africans -- Religious life
African diaspora -- Religious aspects
Christianity.
Theology.
Christianity and culture.
Christianity.
theology.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Christianity
Christianity and culture
Religion
Theology
Glaubensgemeinschaft
Christentum
Afrikanische Theologie
Kirchengemeinde
Diaspora Religion
SUBJECT Africa -- Church history
Africa -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006005642
Subject Africa
Afrika
Genre/Form Festschriften
Church history
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Essamuah, Casely B., editor
Ngaruiya, David K., editor
Tienou, Tite, honouree
LC no. 2013454746
ISBN 9781630873073
1630873071