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The Africanization of Catholicism in Ghana: From Inculturation to Pentecostalization

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article discusses the Africanization of Catholicism in Ghana as a process that embraces activities deriving from the inculturation doctrine as well as those emerging during the most recent process of pentecostalization.
Anna Niedźwiedź
exaly   +3 more sources

Rola inkulturacji w nowej ewangelizacji

open access: yesAnnales Missiologici Posnanienses, 2023
The article includes an attempt to describe the relationship between inculturation and the new evangelization, focusing on inculturation as a method of the new evangelization.
Justyna Nowicka
doaj   +1 more source

Building a united community: Reading the Johannine concept of unity through the eyes of an Akan

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
From the 1960s, African theologians sought to decolonise biblical scholarship, calling for a hermeneutical approach that pays attention to the African sociocultural context – inculturation.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest van Eck
doaj   +1 more source

Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
This article reflects on the impact of the inculturation of liturgy in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church (EEC) on identity formation within the context of African Christianity.
Phumezile Kama, John S. Klaasen
doaj   +1 more source

Recognition and justification: Towards a rationalisation approach to inculturation

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Several religious and theological approaches to culture in African studies have assessed the idea of inculturation as a helpless incorporation of cultural values from one culture into another.
Josephine N. Akah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Reflection on the Effects of Mother-Tongue Hermeneutics on Christianity: An Entrepreneurial Dimension for Propagating the Christian Faith [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2021
This study uses the historical method to display the importance of Mother tongue hermeneutics and its contribution to the viability of Christianity, particularly in Ghana. Though the enterprise of translation is primitive Mother-Tongue Hermeneutics is a
Livingstone Yao Torsu
doaj   +1 more source

African Christian Inculturation Project: Theological Motifs of Liberation and Decolonization

open access: yesJournal of the Council for Research on Religion, 2021
This paper discusses the African Christian theology of inculturation. The theology of inculturation – the African indigenization of Christianity – is one of the African theological movements advocating for the liberation and decolonization of African ...
Malith Kur
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenisation of Christianity Among the Asantes: Truly Asante and Truly Christian? [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020
Christianity was rekindled in Asante Kingdom in the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the 15th century by European missionaries. The Asante converts were taught to abandon their religion to become Christians.
Anthony Kofi Anomah
doaj   +1 more source

From Ethnocentrism to Inculturation. Culture and Civilization in the History of Catholic Mission [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2015
Three models — the ethnocentric model, the adaptation model and the inculturation model — characterize the missionary approaches of the Catholic Church during the whole of its apostolic activity. The article examines the problems of cultural reception in
A. MAKSIMOV
doaj   +1 more source

The Juxtaposition of Ritual Worlds. Maintaining Relationship in Anglican Indigenous Christian Funerals

open access: yesYearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2022
The juxtaposition and maintenance of inherited and indigenous rituals suggests there is something in each of those sources which are felt necessary to retain as both create and express identity and faith at the heart of the ritual processes.
Lizette Larson-Miller
doaj   +1 more source

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