The Paradox of the Margins: The Story of American-Based Seventh-day Adventism in Africa

The early growth prospects of the American-Based Seventh-day Adventist Church in Africa were blurry because of challenges that early missionaries encountered. However, against all odds, the denomination on this continent shook off setbacks related to its difficult beginnings in the 1900s. Through th...

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Main Author: Masfa, Gabriel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 292-316
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten / Church growth / History 1878-2022
IxTheo Classification:AF Geography of religion
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDG Free church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Adventism in Africa
B indigenous contributions
B early missionaries
B Growth
B Global Christianity
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Summary:The early growth prospects of the American-Based Seventh-day Adventist Church in Africa were blurry because of challenges that early missionaries encountered. However, against all odds, the denomination on this continent shook off setbacks related to its difficult beginnings in the 1900s. Through the investigation of familiar and unfamiliar themes, this article seeks to raise awareness about new dynamics in the context of global Seventh-day Adventism. Adventism would not cease to be a thing of Western origin, but its future can be decisively determined by the hands of its non-Western adherents, who naturally share little of Western culture. The change in the Adventist landscape is not simply a matter of new names of Black origin being added to the church records, but of imposing new realities that necessitate a new way of life, a new vision of leadership, new strategies for mission, and new thinking accommodative of cultural shifts.
ISSN:1570-0666
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Africa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340232