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Recognition and justification: Towards a rationalisation approach to inculturation

HTS 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, Aloysius C. Obiwulu, Anthony C. Ajah   +2 more
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Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church

HTS 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
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The Prophet’s Day in China: A Study of the Inculturation of Islam in China, Based on Fieldwork in Xi’an, Najiaying, and Hezhou

Religions
Islam is widely spread throughout every corner of China, with the Hui people, the largest Muslim ethnic group in China, numbering over 10 million people, serving as its main carrier.
Chuanbin Zhou
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Rola inkulturacji w nowej ewangelizacji

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

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

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

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

Yearbook 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
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New Testament Contextualization and Inculturation in Nigeria [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022
The New Testament was written to the audience of the Graeco-Roman world of which the authorial intentions were crystal clear to the then audiences. There is the temptation of eisegesis in the application of the text to the Nigerian context which of ...
Abraham Adebanjo Okunade
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Teologi Inkulturasi dalam Ritual Selapanan

Media, 2022
Selapanan is one of the important rituals in Javanese society. This ritual serves as an expression of gratitude to God for the infant and its mother, as well as asking for safety for the newborn.
Kartono
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