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Markos, Antonius. "Developments in Coptic Orthodox Missiology." Missiology: An International Review 17, no. 2 (April 1989): 203–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968901700206.

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“The Church of Alexandria,” the Coptic Church of Egypt, is the ancient African church established in apostolic times around A.D. 42 by Saint Mark, the Gospel writer. In the ensuing two thousand years Coptic Christians practiced their faith fervently. The Coptic Church, a missionary church since its earliest times, was known to be the first carrier of Christian faith to Ireland, Switzerland, Ethiopia, Nubia, and North Africa. Since geographically and ethnically the Egyptians belong to Africa, the Coptic Church found fellowship with Christian movements in Africa. Two historical meetings of leaders of such churches led to the formation of the Organization of African Independent Churches.

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Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena. "United Over Meals Divided at the Lord’s Table: Christianity and the Unity of the Church in Africa." Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 27, no. 1 (January 2010): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265378809351452.

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Christianity in Africa owes its massive growth of the last 50 years to the Independent and Pentecostal/ charismatic churches. The relationships between these churches and the older mission-founded churches are strained. Ethnic and social factors contribute to the divisions. Christian unity in Africa will require conversion to Christ. The strong African tradition of communal life is destroyed by external forces and inter-African conflicts in which members of the same churches have fought one another. Healing is only possible through reconciliation, which calls for conversion from the sin of breaking the community and neglecting the sanctity of human life. The Global Christian Forum offers a new model of working towards Christian unity, which may be particularly meaningful for Africa.

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Mapala, Cogitator Wilton. "A CRITICAL REFLECTION AND MALAWIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE COMMEMORATION OF THE EDINBURGH 1910 INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY CONFERENCE." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 41, no. 3 (April 19, 2016): 63–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/478.

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This paper interrogates why the Edinburgh 1910 International Missionary Conference needs to be remembered in Malawi. In 2010 Malawian Christian churches joined the Christian community across the globe, celebrating the International Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. Christian churches across the country wanted to conduct services of worship in major cities in memory of this conference. Often we celebrate something that has a direct impact on our lives. However, considering the fact that the conference was disproportionately represented by Western churches, the intriguing question is why it should be remembered in Malawi and in Africa. What impact does it have on the Christian churches in Malawi? While church historians have written on the impact of the Edinburgh 1910 International Missionary Conference in perspective of its ecumenical contribution to the Christendom, there is a scarcity of literature to explain whether the Christians in Malawi see the value of celebrating this historic conference held thousands of kilometres away from them. From the methodological perspective, the paper relies on archives, interviews and church records available in Malawi.

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Borchardt, C. F. A. "Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk en die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad van Kerke." Verbum et Ecclesia 8, no. 1 (July 17, 1987): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v8i1.960.

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The Dutch Reformed Church and the South African Council of Churches The General Missionary Conference which was founded in 1904 became the Christian Council of South Africa in 1936. In 1940 a founder member, viz. the Transvaal Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church withdrew from the council. In 1968 a change of name to the South African Council of Churches reflected a deeper involvement in social and political matters and it gradually also became more representative of the black Christian point of view. Despite various invitations, the Dutch Reformed Church has not rejoined the Council and relations have been very strained, but at its last synod in 1986 the Dutch Reformed Church decided that informal discussions could be held.

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Kollman, Paul. "Classifying African Christianities: Past, Present, and Future: Part One." Journal of Religion in Africa 40, no. 1 (2010): 3–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006610x493107.

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AbstractThis two-part article examines the practice of classifying African Christianities, looking at past and current approaches in order to make suggestions for the future. Noting advances in such classification from the disciplines of African church history and the anthropology of Christianity, it proposes a generational approach to African Christian communities. After reviewing past approaches and identifying their shortcomings, part one shows how Pentecostalism has disrupted such classifications further, prompting the late church historian Ogbu Kalu’s assertion of continuity within African Christianities through a longstanding pattern of revivalism. Kalu helpfully emphasizes African initiatives in Christian creativity and detects similarities over time in Christianity’s appeal to Africans. Yet he also relies on a problematic essentialist approach to Africa and, by foregrounding Pentecostals and African Independent (or Initiated) Churches, continues a trend that overlooks other African Christians. The challenge lies in developing classifications that include all African Christians, using concepts that generate insight-producing comparisons.

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Adebayo, Rufus, and Sylvia Zulu. "Christian Communication, Forms, Secularity, and Dimensions of Language in a Multifaceted Cultural Setting." African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies 3, no. 1 (2021): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v3i1.914.

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Christian communication and the various dimensions of language are profoundly connected and interchangeably used in a multifaceted cultural setting. Christian churches in South Africa, similar to any other African countries, profess their philosophies, passions, and beliefs to multi-cultural congregations through the use of sacred languages and communication. This study posits that the uprising of Pentecostal churches has paved the way for nonspiritual dialectic languages and has also greatly lessened spiritual communication. As a result, the study highlights the relationship between language and religious communication among Pentecostal churches in a culturally diverse environment. This study employs a qualitative approach, through the gathering and categorisation of information between 20 churches located in Durban, South Africa to recognise Christian communication and the influence of secular linguistic features and their relationships with spirituality. This study has found that there are different forms and secular dimensions of language which differ from spiritual language and Christian communication. The study reveals that as modern Christian churches emerge, a revolutionised communication has evolved as compared to the language of orthodox churches. The study recommends that the use of language for religious communication and discourse should necessitate expounding spiritual values and courses of action.

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Houle, Robert. "Mbiya Kuzwayo's Christianity: Revival, Reformation and the Surprising Viability of Mainline Churches in South Africa." Journal of Religion in Africa 38, no. 2 (2008): 141–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006608x289666.

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AbstractMuch of the credit for the vitality of Christianity in southern Africa has gone to the African Initiated Churches that date their birth to earlier 'Ethiopian' and 'Zionist' movements. Yet far from being compromised, as they are often portrayed, those African Christians remaining in the mission churches often played a critical role in the naturalization of the faith. In the churches of the American Zulu Mission, the largest mission body in colonial Natal, one of the most important moments in this process occurred at the end of the nineteenth century when participants in a revival, led in part by a young Zulu Christian named Mbiya Kuzwayo, employed the theology of Holiness to dramatically alter the nature of their lived Christianity and bring about an internal revolution that gave them effective control of their churches.

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Quayesi-Amakye, Joseph. "A YEAST IN THE FLOUR: PENTECOSTALISM AS THE AFRICAN REALISATION OF THE GOSPEL." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 42, no. 3 (February 23, 2017): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/1591.

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The paper discusses the contributions of Pentecostalism to the development of the Christian faith in Ghana and Africa. It argues that Pentecostalism is what fulfils the aspirations and quest of Ghanaian (African) Christians in their search for authentic Christian life. Christianity came to West Africa as a Western contextualised religion impinged by the nineteenth-century rationalisation, the product of the Enlightenment. This paper contends that Pentecostals influence the ethos and praxis of older mission churches in Ghana. It describes, analyses and assesses the various ways Pentecostals are helping to integrate the Christian faith into the religio-social contexts of Ghanaians. This is a complete paradigm shift from their earlier posture to social matters.

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de Gruchy, John W. "From Resistance to National Reconciliation: The Response and Role of the Ecumenical Church in South Africa." Studies in Church History 40 (2004): 369–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400002990.

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Scattered through the history of the Christian Church are seminal moments that have shaped the future course of Christianity whether for good or ill. When later historians of Christianity will write about the twentieth century, I anticipate that they will refer to the role of the Churches in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa as paradigmatic both in terms of success and failure. They might also refer to the role of the Christian Church in the transition to democracy in both countries in similar terms. In what follows I will offer some reflections on the South African side of the story, briefly tracing the response and role of what I have termed the ‘Ecumenical Church’ in South Africa to African resistance, democratic transition and national reconciliation.

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Gruchy, John W. De. "The Church and the Struggle for South Africa." Theology Today 43, no. 2 (July 1986): 229–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004057368604300208.

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“The church struggle in South Africa is being redefined as a struggle within the churches related to the political struggle for the future of South Africa. Christian participation in and reflection on the political struggle has re-written the agenda for the church struggle.”

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Africa; Christian churches"

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Claffey, Patrick. "Hope or Dope: Christian Churches and Socio-Political Development in Africa." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 2008. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,3136.

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Majam, Iliya Ben. "Characteristics, causes and cures of nominality in Africa a case study of faith mission churches /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Nwosu, Vincent. "The contribution of the laity to the growth of the Catholic Church in the Onitsha Province of Eastern Nigeria 1905-1983." Thesis, University of London, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309959.

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Pewa, Sibusiso Emmanuel. "Song, dance, and worship in the Zionist Christian Churches: an ethnomusicological study of African music and religion." Thesis, University of Zululand, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1304.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in the Department of Music at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 1997.
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between music and worship in contemporary African society. Since there are various forms of activities that constitute the African society, the study will focus on the Zionists' Church music and worship from an ethnomusicological point of view.

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Karianjahi, Muhia M. "Constructing Christian rites of passage that enhance community in East African churches." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Tait, Philip. "Characteristics of church leadership that mobilizes lay people a case study of ECWA churches in Nigeria /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Boyd, H. Glenn. "A model program for primary health care delivery in Ghana, West Africa, for the African Christian Hospitals Foundation (Churches of Christ)." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Silva, José Antunes da. "The development of new religious movements in an African context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Matshiga, Dumile Johannes. "Christian education in the Baptist convention of South Africa with special reference to churches in the Transvaal a practical theological investigation /." Access to E-Thesis, 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12052005-141657/.

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Meyer, G. G. "Towards a contextually relevant catechetical model for South African churches: a critical evaluation of John H. Westerhoff III's model of catechesis." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This research was an evaluation of Westerhoff's model of catechesis in order to determine whether a new model of religious education relevant to the present context in South Africa may be developed from his views on catechesis. The research also highlighted key contributions from other writers with regard to Westerhoff's work on catechesis.

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Books on the topic "Africa; Christian churches"

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1959-, Kleidt Brigitte, ed. Ethiopia, christian Africa: Art, churches and culture. Ratingen: Melina-Verlag, 1999.

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Oosthuizen, G. C. The birth of Christian Zionism in South Africa. KwaDlangezwa, South Africa: University of Zululand, 1987.

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Historiography and historical sources regarding African indigenous churches in South Africa: Writing indigenous church history. Lewiston, N.Y: E. Mellen Press, 1995.

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Christians and churches of Africa: Salvation in Christ and building a new African society. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.

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Trapped in apartheid: A socio-theological history of the English-speaking churches. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1988.

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Professional women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic churches. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

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Naudé, Piet. The Zionist Christian Church in South Africa: A case-study in oral theology. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.

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Frahm-Arp, Maria. Professional women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic churches. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

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Frahm-Arp, Maria. Professional women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic churches. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

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African pilgrimage: Ritual travel in South Africa's Christianity of Zion. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Africa; Christian churches"

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Aderibigbe, Ibigbolade. "African Initiated Churches and African Immigrants in the United States: A Model in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America (RCCGNA)." In Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora, 241–58. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137498052_19.

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Bethke, Andrew-John. "Sounds of localisation in South African Anglican church music." In Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide, 161–78. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Congregational music studies series: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315142432-8.

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Aechtner, Thomas. "One in Worship: Recapitulation, Transnational Identities, and Christian Pan-Africanism." In Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada, 40–59. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137485496_3.

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Aihiokhai, Simon Mary Asese. "African Migrant Christians Changing the Landscape of Christianity in the West: Reading the Signs of the Times." In The Church, Migration, and Global (In)Difference, 289–307. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54226-9_16.

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Whelan, Robin. "African Churches." In Being Christian in Vandal Africa. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295957.003.0002.

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This chapter sets the stakes for Vandal Africa’s ecclesiastical controversy. Taking its cue from the anxieties of contemporary Nicene bishops, it suggests that the Nicene and Homoian churches were not so dissimilar from one another, whether in size, personnel, language use, or ecclesiastical culture. It also presents the (surprisingly scanty) information on the careers of key Nicene clerics and argues that pseudepigraphic texts must be integrated into any analysis of this period, not least since the works of better-known figures were often transmitted under assumed names in the early Middle Ages.

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Henama, Unathi Sonwabile, and Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo. "Religious Tourism in South Africa." In Global Perspectives on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 104–28. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2796-1.ch007.

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The growth of tourism in South Africa after the end of apartheid can be associated with the growth of various forms of special interest tourism. Religious tourism as a form of special interest tourism is possibly the most important contributor of tourism geographical dispersion in South Africa. South Africa's religious tourism is dominated by Christian religious pilgrimage. Religious pilgrimages produce positive spin off for many destinations in South Africa, which may not be regarded as traditional tourism destinations. Religious-linked domestic travel continues to dominate domestic tourism expenditure. The existence of several African Initiated Churches such as the Zion Christian Church and the Nazareth Baptist Church attract several million worshippers during their religious pilgrimages, attracting worshippers beyond South Africa. Robben Island, which is a shrine for the anti-apartheid struggle, has a glorious Muslim resistance history, which is yet to be exploited by the Robben Island Museum. This chapter adds to the academic literature on religious tourism.

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"Appendix 9b. Extracts From The Socio-Political Chapters Of Ecclesia In Africa." In Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin, 299–304. BRILL, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004155725.i-328.67.

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Joseph, Richard. "The Christian Churches and Democracy in Contemporary Africa." In Christianity and Democracy in Global Context, 231–47. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429037689-14.

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"Appendix 7. Some Of The Most Important Nineteenth-Century Catholic Orders Or Institutes Dedicated To Mission In Africa." In Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin, 294. BRILL, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004155725.i-328.64.

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Kling, David W. "The East African Revival (1930–2000)." In A History of Christian Conversion, 605–32. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320923.003.0023.

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The focus of this chapter is on the East African Revival, one of the most powerful and enduring African conversionary movements of the twentieth century. From the mid-1940s through the late 1970s, the revival expanded well beyond East Africa as teams of missionaries and African leaders carried the message to an international audience, from Brazil to the Far East. The revival represented a recovery of the indigenous structure of the Church. As the revival spread under African impetus and leadership, it creatively melded with African tradition. Under lay, independent initiative within the mission churches, the Balokole (“saved ones”) formed communities of prayer and fellowship that emphasized repentance, public confession, testimony, and restitution. The revival broke down tribal and political barriers and provided new opportunities for women. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the revival in relation to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

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Conference papers on the topic "Africa; Christian churches"

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"The Influence of Women in the New Testament on Christian Women in Pentecostal Churches Towards Evangelism in Kano State." In Nov. 19-20 2018 Cape Town (South Africa). Eminent Association of Pioneers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.17758/eares4.eap1118407.

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