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Wealth, health, and hope in African Christian religion : the search for abundant life / edited by Stan Chu Ilo ; foreword by Esther Acolatse.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498561280
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BR1430 .W435 2017
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Contents:
Foreword / by Esther Acolatse -- Introduction: The search for abundant life in African Christian religion: historical reinterpretation of Christian mission in Africa / Stan Chu Ilo -- African Christian religion: its scope in the global context / Caleb O. Oladipo -- In quest of wholeness: African Christians in the new Christianity / David Tonghou Ngong -- Searching for healing in a miraculous stream: the fate of God's people in Africa / Stan Chu Ilo -- Eradicating evil in the search for practices of hope in Africa: witchcraft beliefs and accusations in contemporary Ghanaian Christianity / Cyril G. K. Fayose -- Pentecostal and charismatic renewal as a socio-religious phenomenon for transformation in Africa / Clement Majawa -- Taking Africa out of the African: eco-community, the Christian heritage of empire and neo-pentecostalism in Africa / Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo -- The African peoples and money: yesterday, today and tomorrow / Nathanaël Soede -- The place of money in mission between Africa and the West: a personal narrative / Jim Harries -- Nigeria, Europe and Christian mission: models of economic collaboration in the 21st century / Felix Enegho -- The African church and the impact of contemporary fundraising and sustainability / Levi Nkwocha -- To recycle or not to recycle: an ethical question in Africa's relation with the West / Aloysius Ochasi, Peter Clark, and Michael Barkowski -- In the wake of overt religiosity: a critical and appreciative perspective on religion as a force for social transformation and development in African society / Obaji M. Agbiji and Ignatius Swart.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword / by Esther Acolatse -- Introduction: The search for abundant life in African Christian religion: historical reinterpretation of Christian mission in Africa / Stan Chu Ilo -- African Christian religion: its scope in the global context / Caleb O. Oladipo -- In quest of wholeness: African Christians in the new Christianity / David Tonghou Ngong -- Searching for healing in a miraculous stream: the fate of God's people in Africa / Stan Chu Ilo -- Eradicating evil in the search for practices of hope in Africa: witchcraft beliefs and accusations in contemporary Ghanaian Christianity / Cyril G. K. Fayose -- Pentecostal and charismatic renewal as a socio-religious phenomenon for transformation in Africa / Clement Majawa -- Taking Africa out of the African: eco-community, the Christian heritage of empire and neo-pentecostalism in Africa / Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo -- The African peoples and money: yesterday, today and tomorrow / Nathanaël Soede -- The place of money in mission between Africa and the West: a personal narrative / Jim Harries -- Nigeria, Europe and Christian mission: models of economic collaboration in the 21st century / Felix Enegho -- The African church and the impact of contemporary fundraising and sustainability / Levi Nkwocha -- To recycle or not to recycle: an ethical question in Africa's relation with the West / Aloysius Ochasi, Peter Clark, and Michael Barkowski -- In the wake of overt religiosity: a critical and appreciative perspective on religion as a force for social transformation and development in African society / Obaji M. Agbiji and Ignatius Swart.

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