Christianity in Tropical Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Seventh International African Seminar, University of Ghana, April 1965

by C. G. Baëta (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1968 this volume discusses the issues and problems relevant to Christianity in Tropical Africa. It includes historical studies of the earlier Catholic and Protestant missions and their relationship with African communities, traders and colonial administrations; the social and psychological aspects of conversion and responses to the teaching of the gospel and the impact of Christian teaching on indigenous beliefs; the analysis of modern trends such as separatism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138487536
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2018
Series:	African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
Pages:	466
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

C. G. Baëta

Table of Contents

Part 1: Historical Perspective 1. Problems of Historical Perspective: The Planting of Christianity in Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2. Relations Between Christian Missions, European Administrations, and Traders in the Gold Coast 1828-74 3. Missonary Policies as seen in the Work of Misions with the Evangelical presbyterian Church, Ghana 4. Catholics and Protestants in the Congo 5. The Missionary Struggle with Complexity Part 2: The Analytical Perspective 6. Converts and Martyrs in Buganda 7. Influence de la Christianisation sur les institutions traditionnelles des ethnies côtières du Cameroun 8. Some Problems of African Christianity: Guilt and Shame 9. Conceptions of Christianity in the Context of Tropical Africa: Nigerian Reactions to its Advent 10. Attitudes and Policies of the Yoruba African Churches Towards Polygamy 11. Ethiopianism: Past and Present 12. Church Growth and Independency as Organic Phenomena: An Analysis of Two Hundred African Tribes 13. Some Traditional African Religions and Christianity 14. Christianisme et culture africaine: apport africain à la théologie 15. The Ways and Means of Communicating the Gospel Part 3: Trends and Prospects in African Christianity 16. Mariage et famille dans les groupes christianisés ou en voie de Christianisation de Dakar 17. Religion and Socio-Economic Action Among the Serenje-Lala of Zambia 18. The Predicament of the Church in Africa