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Christianity and the African

Blackfriars, 1940
It is sometimes said in travellers’ tales that Christianity does more harm than good among the African peoples. It seems at first to destroy their native virtues without building up new ones, to change external observances without giving real Christian character.There is a certain amount of truth in this, and apart from the more mysterious causes—that ...
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Classifying African Christianities, Part Two: The Anthropology of Christianity and Generations of African Christians

Journal of Religion in Africa, 2010
AbstractCurrent approaches to classifying African Christianities include generalizing approaches like Ogbu Kalu’s assertion of ongoing revival and particular studies associated with the anthropology of Christianity. Here I argue for a generational approach to African Christian communities, noting what has been achieved and what remains to be done.Two ...
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A Truly African Christianity

Journal of Reformed Theology, 2022
Abstract John Gachango Gatũ (1925–2017) was one of the most prominent and important Kenyan church leaders of his generation. He was the first African to serve as general secretary of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, and then went on to be moderator.
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Prelude to African Christian Independency: the Afro-American Factor in African Christianity

Harvard Theological Review, 1984
A remarkable phenomenon in African Christianity occurred between about 1912 and 1930 when, mostly out of the ferment of indigenous reaction to Western Christian missions, local “prophets” emerged and founded African Independent Churches. “Independency” is the term employed to characterize this phenomenon which came to embrace both the charismatic ...
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African Christian Immigrants

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, 2019
The latent functions of African immigration are often overlooked. Over the years, these functions have produced scenarios worth researching. Many people migrate from Africa to the West looking for greener pastures with the goal of economic upliftment.
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African Christianity

1998
Up-to-date analysis of Christian churches’ increasingly important role in African politics and society.
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Some African ‘Christians’

Blackfriars, 1952
If there is a ‘problem’ of adapting or accommodating African rites and beliefs to Christianity, it is one to which missionaries best know the answers. Students of primitive people are better employed in saying what does happen, rather than in speculating as to what might or should happen. The problem posed in theory, in which abstract African rites and
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An African Christian Morality

Africa, 1937
Opening ParagraphStatements are frequently made by residents and travellers in Africa about the effects of missions on Native communities, but they are seldom backed by an analysis of concrete facts. The African is subject to the influences of Western European culture in many different ways, and it is extremely difficult to isolate the influence of ...
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