Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions: Exploring Nigerian-African Christian Societies
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Historical and socio-political background -- Initiation societies in Africa -- A brief historical origin and location of Amasiri -- Religious landsca...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Florence
Taylor and Francis
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Religion in Modern Africa
Religion in Modern Africa Ser. |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Christianity--Nigeria |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Obinna, Elijah: Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions : Exploring Nigerian-African Christian Societies. - Florence : Taylor and Francis,c2016. - 9781472478009 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Historical and socio-political background -- Initiation societies in Africa -- A brief historical origin and location of Amasiri -- Religious landscape of Amasiri -- Indigenous organisational structures -- 2 Ritual processes and the Ogo society -- Ritual phases and the Ogo society -- Preliminality (separation) -- Liminality (transition) -- Postliminality (incorporation/integration) -- 3 Implications of initiation into the Ogo society -- The Ogo society: arts, music and masquerades -- The Ogo society and gendered relationship -- 4 Locating the United Presbyterian Church (UPC) within local and global landscapes -- Mapping the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) -- Mission expansionism: The PCN at Amasiri -- Local agency and mission -- Interface of ritual within the PCN -- 5 Religious conversion: transition and transmission -- Western mission and discourses of religious change -- Conceptualising conversion -- Dynamic of conversion to Christianity -- Religious conversion and relationship -- 6 Negotiating culture and identity -- First phase (1927-1944) -- Second phase (1945-1970) -- Third phase (1970-1990) -- Fourth phase (era of Charismatisation and Pentecostalisation, 1990-2008) -- Conflict: the Ogo society and Christianity -- Conflict resolution -- 7 Towards dialogue: Christianity and the Ogo society -- Engaging the two models: dialetic and dialogic -- Factors for dialetic approach to culture -- Dynamic of the dialogic model -- Dialogue: Christianity and cultures -- Dialogic model: key implications -- 8 Theoretical reflections on the Ogo society -- Ritual and symbol -- Ritual and myth -- The Ogo society: culture, identity and power -- The Ogo society and concept of community Appendix: research methodology -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages) |
| ISBN: | 131711907X |