Kwame Bediako and African Christian scholarship : emerging religious discourse in twentieth-century Ghana / Sara J. Fretheim ; foreword by Elias K. Bongmba. [print]

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Fretheim, Sara J [Author]

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9781498299046
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BT30.B713.K836 2018
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The African Christian study of African religions: an emerging discourse ; -- Reading, writing, 'rithmetic, and religion: nineteenth- and twentieth-century mission and colonial contributions to the African Christian study of religions in Ghana ; -- Seeking first the political kingdom: politics and the study of religion in Ghana ; -- "Down from what tree?": the unexpected influence of Négritude poetry on Bediako's Christian thought ; -- Reading the Akrofi-Christaller Institute as text: Bediako's magnum opus ; -- Their past, our present: Bediako's abiding significance for African Christian scholarship.

Subject: In a departure from current theologically-focused scholarship on Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako, this book places him within the wider historical continuum of twentieth-century Ghana and reads him as a leading Christian scholar within the African study of African religions. The book traces a variety of influences and figures within this emerging African discourse in Ghana, including aspects of missions and colonial history and the voices of poets, politicians, prophets, and priests. Locating Bediako within this complex twentieth-century matrix, this intellectual history draws upon his published and key unpublished works, including his first masters and doctoral dissertations on Négritude literature, an abiding influence on his later Christian thought and an essential foundation for interpreting this scholar. This book also "reads" the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture as "text" by Bediako, revealing essential components of his intellectual and spiritual itinerary revealed in the Institute's community and curriculum. This approach challenges narrowly-focused theological scholarship on Bediako, while highlighting critical methodological divisions between African, Western, confessional, and non-confessional approaches to the study of religion in Africa. In doing so, it highlights the rich complexity of this emerging African discourse and identifies Bediako as a pioneering African Christian intellectual within this wider field. --

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	BT30.F748.K836 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	12/19/2024	31923002037626

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Liverpool, 2015.

Kwame Bediako in perspective ; -- The African Christian study of African religions: an emerging discourse ; -- Reading, writing, 'rithmetic, and religion: nineteenth- and twentieth-century mission and colonial contributions to the African Christian study of religions in Ghana ; -- Seeking first the political kingdom: politics and the study of religion in Ghana ; -- "Down from what tree?": the unexpected influence of Négritude poetry on Bediako's Christian thought ; -- Reading the Akrofi-Christaller Institute as text: Bediako's magnum opus ; -- Their past, our present: Bediako's abiding significance for African Christian scholarship.

In a departure from current theologically-focused scholarship on Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako, this book places him within the wider historical continuum of twentieth-century Ghana and reads him as a leading Christian scholar within the African study of African religions. The book traces a variety of influences and figures within this emerging African discourse in Ghana, including aspects of missions and colonial history and the voices of poets, politicians, prophets, and priests. Locating Bediako within this complex twentieth-century matrix, this intellectual history draws upon his published and key unpublished works, including his first masters and doctoral dissertations on Négritude literature, an abiding influence on his later Christian thought and an essential foundation for interpreting this scholar. This book also "reads" the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture as "text" by Bediako, revealing essential components of his intellectual and spiritual itinerary revealed in the Institute's community and curriculum. This approach challenges narrowly-focused theological scholarship on Bediako, while highlighting critical methodological divisions between African, Western, confessional, and non-confessional approaches to the study of religion in Africa. In doing so, it highlights the rich complexity of this emerging African discourse and identifies Bediako as a pioneering African Christian intellectual within this wider field. --

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