Faith in African Lived Christianity: Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39849-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 509 g

Reihe: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies

Faith in African Lived Christianity – Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives offers a comprehensive, empirically rich and interdisciplinary approach to the study of faith in African Christianity. The book brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith and religious experiences shape the understanding of social life in Africa. The volume is a collection of chapters by prominent Africanist theologians, anthropologists and social scientists, who take people’s faith as their starting point and analyze it in a contextually sensitive way. It covers discussions of positionality in the study of African Christianity, interdisciplinary methods and approaches and a number of case studies on political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lauterbach, Karen

Vähäkangas, Mika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forewordvii

Notes on Contributorsviii

1 Faith in African Lived Christianity – Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives: Introduction

Mika Vähäkangas and Karen Lauterbach

Part 1: Normativity and Positionality in Anthropology and Theology

2 World Christianity and the Reorganization of Disciplines: On the Emerging Dialogue Between Anthropology and Theology

Joel Robbins

3 From Objects to Subjects of Religious Studies in Africa: Methodological Agnosticism and Methodological Conversion

Frans Wijsen

4 Liberationist Conversion and Ethnography in the Decolonial Moment: A Finnish Theologian/Ethicist Reflects in South Africa

Elina Hankela

5 Re-thinking the Study of Religion: Lessons from Field Studies of Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora

Galia Sabar

Part 2: Methods and Approaches: From Anthropology to Theology and Back

6 Fakery and Wealth in African Charismatic Christianity: Moving Beyond the Prosperity Gospel as Script

Karen Lauterbach

7 How to Respect the Religious Quasi-Other? Methodological Considerations in Studying the Kimbanguist Doctrine of Incarnation

Mika Vähäkangas

8 Pentecostal Praise and Worship as a Mode of Theology

Martina Prosén

9 The Sounds of the Christians in Northern Nigeria: Notes on an Acoustic History of Bachama Christianity

Niels Kastfelt

10 What Has Kinshasa to Do with Athens? Methodological Perspectives on Theology and Social Science in Search for a Political Theology

Elias Kifon Bongmba

Part 3: Theology in Lived Religion: Case Studies

11 African Migrant Christianities – Delocalization or Relocalization of Identities?

Stian Sørlie Eriksen, Tomas Sundnes Drønen and Ingrid Løland

12 Going to War: Spiritual Encounters and Pentecostals’ Drive for Exposure in Contemporary Zanzibar

Hans Olsson

13 The Dramatization and Embodiment of God of the Wilderness

Isabel Mukonyora

14 Breathing Pneumatology: Spirit, Wind, and Atmosphere in a Zulu Zionist Congregation

Rune Flikke

15 Gendered Narratives of Illness and Healing: Experiences of Spirit Possession in a Charismatic Church Community in Tanzania

Lotta Gammelin

16 Revealed Medicine – As an Expression of an African Christian Lived-Out Spirituality

Carl Sundberg

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Lauterbach, Ph.D. (2009), Roskilde University, is Associate Professor of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

Mika Vähäkangas Th.D. (1998), University of Helsinki, is Professor of Mission Studies and Ecumenics at Lund University, and a former lecturer of systematic theology of Makumira University College, Tanzania (1998-2005), and president of the International Association for Mission Studies (2012-2016).