Domesticating a Religious Import: The Jesuits and the Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980
Autor Nicholas M. Crearyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780823233342
ISBN-10: 0823233340
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 24 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Fordham University Press
ISBN-10: 0823233340
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 24 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Fordham University Press
Recenzii
This book, a reminder of the lasting impact of European missionaries inAfrica, is aimed at readers who believe that Africans have alwaysdecided for themselves what to do with Christianity. Domesticating andImport is telling us to wake up to the fact that there are limits toinculturation. Coming as I do from the background world of converts toChristianity described, it is no wonder I ended up on a search for themeaning of Christianity in its long history in western cultures.Nicholas Creary's book is thought provoking.-Isabel Mukonyora
Challenging the view that Western missionaries colonized African minds, Creary explores the transformation of the Catholic Church from below, using colonial Zimbabwe as a case study. He examines the ways in which Shona people shaped the Church by incorporating African beliefs, symbols, and cultural practices and how the Church, in turn, responded to their initiatives. Creary's book is innovative, insightful, and compelling. It is bound to have a significant impact on future scholarly interpretations of Christianity in Africa--and elsewhere in the colonized world.-Elizabeth Schmidt
One of the greatest challenges to the Church in the 20th and present century is to adapt ycultural yand sacramental life of a Rome-centered institution yto non-European cultures. Professor Nicholas Creary's yin-depth study of the Jesuits' yattempts to establish the faith in Zimbabwe yhas much to teach us - especially if we can learn from our mistakes.-Raymond Schroth, S.J.
Challenging the view that Western missionaries colonized African minds, Creary explores the transformation of the Catholic Church from below, using colonial Zimbabwe as a case study. He examines the ways in which Shona people shaped the Church by incorporating African beliefs, symbols, and cultural practices and how the Church, in turn, responded to their initiatives. Creary's book is innovative, insightful, and compelling. It is bound to have a significant impact on future scholarly interpretations of Christianity in Africa--and elsewhere in the colonized world.-Elizabeth Schmidt
One of the greatest challenges to the Church in the 20th and present century is to adapt ycultural yand sacramental life of a Rome-centered institution yto non-European cultures. Professor Nicholas Creary's yin-depth study of the Jesuits' yattempts to establish the faith in Zimbabwe yhas much to teach us - especially if we can learn from our mistakes.-Raymond Schroth, S.J.
Notă biografică
Nicholas Creary is an Assistant Professor of History and African Studies at Ohio University. He is the editor of Intellectuals and African Decolonization (Ohio University Press, 2010) and Returning to the Sources: New Critical Perspectives on African Indigenous Knowledges.