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Gerrie Ter Haar - How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought - 9780812241730 - V9780812241730
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How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought

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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 by ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812241730
SKU
V9780812241730
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Gerrie Ter Haar
Gerrie ter Haar is Professor of Religion and Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

Reviews for How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought
"The subject of How God Became African is of crucial importance, and its presentation is cogent, clear, and well organized. I can think of no book covering quite the same ground."
Andrew F. Walls, Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Christian World, Edinburgh University

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