The Power of Interpretation: Conflicting Discourses on New Forms of African Christianity

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- KLAUS HOCK: Preface -- KLAUS HOCK: Introduction: New Perspectives, New Foci: Topological Dispositions of African Christianity -- 1. PAUL GIFFORD: A Nigerian Reading of the Bible and its Interpretational Power -- I. Genealogical Dispositions: T...

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Main Author: Hock, Klaus (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag 2017
In:Year: 2017
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Studien zur Aussereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) / Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Asia, Africa, Latin America) v.29
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Christianity / Religious change
IxTheo Classification:FA Theology
Further subjects:B Christian Life
B Conference program 2014 (Rostock)
B Electronic books
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Print version: Hock, Klaus: The Power of Interpretation: Imagined Authenticity - Appropriated Identity. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag,c2017. - 9783447107389
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Summary:Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- KLAUS HOCK: Preface -- KLAUS HOCK: Introduction: New Perspectives, New Foci: Topological Dispositions of African Christianity -- 1. PAUL GIFFORD: A Nigerian Reading of the Bible and its Interpretational Power -- I. Genealogical Dispositions: The Power of Interpretation in and of African Christianities in Historical Perspective -- 2. DAVIDE DAINESE: 'Oikoumene' as Globalisation: Conflicts in Forms of Christian Life in Africa (Third to Fourth Centuries) -- 3. SILVIA CRISTOFORI: Conversions and Revolutions in Buganda (1877-1889): The Clash of Interpretations of a Conflicting Phase of Globalisation -- 4. FRIEDER LUDWIG: Reconstructing History, Reconstructing Theology: Discourses on "African Destiny" in the Transatlantic World, c. 1830 to c. 1930 -- 5. W. PHUTI MOGASE: Women's Voices in Gendered Spaces: The West African Christian Elite, the West African Pressand the Power of Interpretation, c. 1880-1931 -- 6. MICHEL NANA: L'Église catholique et les mouvements prophétiques africains en Côte d'Ivoire : choc ou rencontre? (1913-1995) -- II. Transconfigurations: The Power of Interpretationin and of New Forms of African Christianities -- 7. ANDREAS HEUSER: "Prisms, Mirrors, and Refractions": There-Centric Perceptions of Basel Mission History in Ghana -- 8. WERNER KAHL: Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics: Reclaiming Interpretive Power in Ghana - Miracles, Homosexuality and Bible Translation as Case-Studies -- 9. CHRISTINE GÜHNE: From Victim to Victor: New Christian Identities in Africa and Their Effect on Development -- 10. CHARLOTTE EISENBERG: German-Ghanaian Encounters in the Church: An Empirical View on Power Structures in Ecumenical Relationships -- 11. CLAUDIA JAHNEL: "This is my Body Broken for You." Entangled Discourse on the Body in African Theology.
12. AFE ADOGAME: Towards Digital Divination? Modes of Negotiating Authenticity and Knowledges in Indigenous African Epistemologies -- List of Authors -- Backcover
ISBN:3447195916