How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought

by Gerrie Ter Haar

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Through the efforts of Western missionaries and home-grown churches and evangelists, Christianity has taken root in Africa with astonishing speed, to the point that Africa is now considered one of the heartlands of world Christianity. In a surprising reversal of the nineteenth-century missionary tradition, Africa no longer merely receives missionaries but is also the source of evangelization as African-influenced Christianity spreads around the new African diaspora. While Africans have wholeheartedly appropriated the symbols, scriptures, and traditions of historical Christianity elsewhere, they have also built on the rich history of the continent's indigenous spiritual beliefs. African Christianity has been influenced...

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  • ISBN10 0812241738
  • ISBN13 9780812241730
  • Publish Date 20 August 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 136
  • Language English