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050	0	4	_aBT30.B713.K836 2018
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100	1		_aFretheim, Sara J., _e1
245	1	0	_aKwame Bediako and African Christian scholarship : _bemerging religious discourse in twentieth-century Ghana / _cSara J. Fretheim ; foreword by Elias K. Bongmba. _hPR
260			_aEugene, Oregon : _bPickwick Publications, _c(c)2018.
300			_axviii, 234 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAfrican Christian studies series ; _v13
500			_aRevision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Liverpool, 2015.
505	0	0	_aKwame Bediako in perspective ; -- _tThe African Christian study of African religions: an emerging discourse ; -- _tReading, writing, 'rithmetic, and religion: nineteenth- and twentieth-century mission and colonial contributions to the African Christian study of religions in Ghana ; -- _tSeeking first the political kingdom: politics and the study of religion in Ghana ; -- _t"Down from what tree?": the unexpected influence of Négritude poetry on Bediako's Christian thought ; -- _tReading the Akrofi-Christaller Institute as text: Bediako's magnum opus ; -- _tTheir past, our present: Bediako's abiding significance for African Christian scholarship.
520	0		_aIn 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Bediako within this complex twentieth-century matrix, this intellectual history draws upon his published and key unpublished works, including his first masters and doctoral dissertations on Négritude literature, an abiding influence on his later Christian thought and an essential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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650		0	_aTheology _xStudy and teaching _zGhana _yTwentieth century.
650		0	_aTheology _zAfrica.
700	1		_aBongmba, Elias Kifon,
700	1		_d1953- _eaui
830		0	_aAfrican Christian studies series ; _v13.
942			_2lcc _cBK _hBT _m2018 _01 _O112-8252010-7088257 _eAMAZON _i2020-10-12 _k30.00 _nILLL
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell