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Pauw, Christoff M. "Traditional African Economies in Conflict With Western Capitalism." Mission Studies 14, no. 1 (1997): 203–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338397x00121.

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AbstractThis article analyzes some of the fundamental differences between the two economic systems which have come into conflict with one another in sub-Saharan Africa: traditional African economies, based on community and communitarian ownership, and Western, capitalist-oriented economics, based on individual identity and individual rights. While the dire economic conditions prevailing in Africa have elicited various strategies and programs, a unique coping mechanism is developing within African Independent Churches. This not only poses a challenge to other churches, but may also provide alte

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Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena. "'Broken Calabashes and Covenants of Fruitfulness': Cursing Barrenness in Contemporary African Christianity." Journal of Religion in Africa 37, no. 4 (2007): 437–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006607x230535.

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AbstractChildlessness is an issue of deep religious concern in Africa. Men, women and couples with problems of sexuality and childlessness make use not only of the resources of traditional African religions but also of the many Pentecostal/charismatic churches and movements that have burgeoned throughout sub-Saharan Africa in the last three decades. Initially this was the domain of the older African independent churches, as far as the Christian response to childlessness is concerned; the new Pentecostals have taken on the challenge too. Based on the same biblical and traditional worldviews tha

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Mildnerová, Kateřina. "African Independent Churches in Zambia (Lusaka)." Ethnologia Actualis 14, no. 2 (2014): 8–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eas-2015-0001.

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ABSTRACT The African Independent churches (AICs) in Zambia, as elsewhere in Africa, from their very beginning formed a protest movement against the cultural imperialism undertaken by the missionary representatives of the historic mission churches and also played an important role in the anti-colonial political struggles. In Zambia, the early AICs were closely related to witchcraft eradication movements such as the Mchape, or socially and politically oriented prophet-healing churches such as The Lumpa church of Alice Lenshina. Since the 1970s and in particular in the 1990s the Christianity in Z

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Sabar, Galia. "African Christianity in the Jewish State: Adaptation, Accommodation and Legitimization of Migrant Workers' Churches, 1990-2003." Journal of Religion in Africa 34, no. 4 (2004): 407–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570066042564400.

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AbstractThis paper examines the role of African Initiated Churches (AICs) in the lives of African migrant laborers in Israel. Its aim is to attain a deeper understanding of religion and church affiliation among African migrant laborers in Israel from the perspective of the Africans themselves. It traces the creation and development of the AICs in Israel, including the various services and activities that the churches provided for their members in the social, economic and political arenas. It argues that the African churches in Israel occupied a particularly large and central place in their mem

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Pauw, C. M. "Traditional African economies in conflict with western capitalism." Verbum et Ecclesia 17, no. 2 (1996): 373–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v17i2.525.

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Traditional Mrican economies in conflict with western capitalism Some of the fundamental differences between two economic systems which, by and large, have come into conflict with one another in Africa south of the Sahara are analised, i e traditional African economies and western, capitalist oriented economies. The dire economic conditions prevailing in Africa are the result, to a large extent, of a long history of exploitation and economic disempowerment particularly by western powers. Not all the strategies and programs to counter this poverty are equally appropriate or acceptable. In the m

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Ireland, Jerry M. "African Traditional Religion and Pentecostal Churches in Lusaka, Zambia: An Assessment." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 21, no. 2 (2012): 260–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455251-02102006.

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This study seeks to discover how African Traditional Religion (ATR) is viewed by Pentecostal church leaders in Lusaka, Zambia. The convenience sample focused on fourteen Pentecostal churches of various denominational affiliations within the city of Lusaka, Zambia. A thirty-one-item survey tool, the Assessment of Traditional Religious Practices (ATRP), was developed and administered to 128 leaders regarding the prevalence of traditional religious practices among their congregants. The ATRP also assessed how these leaders typically respond to concerns related to ATR within their ministerial cont

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Clarke, Clifton. "Old Wine and New Wine Skins: West Indian and the New West African Pentecostal Churches in Britain and the Challenge of Renewal." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19, no. 1 (2010): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552510x489937.

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AbstractThis article is about the black Pentecostal churches of West Indian and West African origin in the Britain. It explores the challenges and opportunities for renewal and reappropriation that confront transmigration black Pentecostal churches beyond the first and second generation. It looks at the older West Indian Pentecostal churches (New Testament Church of God) and the new West African churches (Redeemed Christian Church of God) and asks, what are the lessons of continuity and renewal that they can mutually teach each other at a time of steady decline of traditional black Pentecostal

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Vengeyi, Obvious. "Mapositori Churches and Politics in Zimbabwe: Political Dramas to Win the Support of Mapositori Churches." Exchange 40, no. 4 (2011): 351–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254311x600753.

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AbstractThis article confirms the validity of the well known observation by scholars regarding the intrinsic interconnectedness of religion and politics in Africa. This truism is affirmed by demonstrating how Zimbabwe’s main political parties, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (zanu-pf) and Movement for Democratic Change (mdc), contrary to their public statements appeal to religious leaders and groups for political survival. Special focus is on ‘white garment churches’ otherwise commonly known as Mapositori the biggest brand of African Initiated Churches. As such, mainline church

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Nweke, Kizito Chinedu, and Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke. "The Re-emergence of African Spiritualities: Prospects and Challenges." Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 36, no. 4 (2019): 246–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265378819866215.

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Indigenous spiritualities among Africans, both in Africa and in the diaspora, are flourishing. In Lagos, Nigeria, for example, shrines compete with churches and mosques in adherents and positions. Beyond Africa, the rise of African spiritualities has become conspicuous. Reasons range from Afrocentrism to anti-religious tendencies to the popular religions, from racial animosity to politico-economic ideologies, yet insufficient attention is being paid to this new Afro-spiritualities. Can this renaissance in African spirituality bring forth or support a renaissance in Africa? Africa arguably dome

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Statham, Todd. "Teetotalism in Malawian Protestantism: Missionary Origins, African Appropriation." Studies in World Christianity 21, no. 2 (2015): 161–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2015.0116.

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Although beer had a profound cultural, economic and religious significance among traditional societies in central Africa, teetotalism – in other words, abstinence from alcohol – has become widespread in Malawian Protestantism (as elsewhere in African Christianity), and in many churches it is regarded as a mark of true faith. This article examines the origins of the antipathy to alcohol in the Presbyterian missionaries who evangelised Malawi in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who drew a parallel between the ‘problem of drink’ among the working poor in their home culture and c

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African traditional churches"

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Mdaka, Tintswalo Sophie. "A comparative analysis of Western and African traditional churches among Vatsonga : a sociolinguistic study." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1126.

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Bell, Tenolian Rodney. "Factors that influence African-American church goers to seek help from their churches as opposed to traditional social service agencies /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu14879457445735.

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Glover, David Edward. "Developing a model for changing the traditional pattern of evangelism in the black church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Park, Jinho. "The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46160.

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The history of African Independent Churches (AICs) in Southern Africa goes back for more than a hundred years. They have proliferated geographically and demographically in Africa more than the mainline churches could ever have imagined. They have grown to be as widespread and as influential as the African mainline churches. The reason for this growth is that the AICs are the churches of African indigenous people. They are launched by Africans from a background of an African traditional and cultural frame of reference. The most significant reason is that the founders of these churches ar

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Holmgren, E. Henry. "Signs and wonders in Africa a biblical perspective in interaction with western missions, African independent churches and African traditional religion, with particular reference to Zambia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Bell, Tenolian Rodney Sr. "Factors that influence African American church goers to seek help from their churches as opposed to traditional social service agencies." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1277924360.

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Ondego, Joseph Odongo. "African Luo ethnic traditional religion and Bible translation mission, education and theology." Berlin Viademica-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2841177&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Shange, Nombulelo Tholithemba. "Shembe religion's integration of African traditional religion and Christianity : a sociological case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011819.

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The Shembe Church's integration of African Traditional Religion and Christianity has been met by many challenges. This merger has been rejected by both African traditionalists and Christians. The Shembe Church has been met by intolerance even though the movement in some ways creates multiculturalism between different people and cultures. This thesis documents the Shembe Church's ideas and practices; it discusses how the Shembe Church combines two ideologies that appear to be at odds with each other. In looking at Shembe ideas and practices, the thesis discusses African religion-inspired ritual

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Nyuyki, Peter Siysi. "A missional approach to the traditional social associations of the NSO’ people of Cameroon." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59094.

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This research deals with Christian missions and African cultures. It focuses on the traditional social associations of the Nso’ people of Cameroon. The main problem the research addresses is that missionaries who came to Nso’ mostly imposed their culture on the Nso’ and by extension Africa in the name of Christianity. What this research refers to as traditional social associations is what the missionaries prejudicially termed secret societies. The research argues that these traditional social associations are not secret societies. They are rather custodians and preservers of Nso’ cultur

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Munyai, Alidzulwi Simon. "Understanding the Christian message in Venda a study of the traditional concepts of God and of life hereafter among the Venda, with reference to the impact of these concepts on the Christian churches /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01082009-161905/.

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African Luo ethnic traditional religion and Bible translation: Mission, education, and theology. Viademica, 2006.

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T'Ofori-Atta, Ndugu. ChristKwanza: An African American church liturgy, derived from traditional African communal celebration of the harvest of the first fruit : matunda ya kwanza. Strugglers' Community Press, 1990.

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Maboea, Sello Isaiah. The influence of life-giving power in the African traditional religion and the Zionist churches in Soweto: A comparative study. CB Powell Bible Centre, UNISA, 2002.

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Makwasha, Gift M. The repression, resistance, and revival of the ancestor cult in the Shona churches of Zimbabwe: A study of the persistence of a traditional religious belief. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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The repression, resistance, and revival of the ancestor cult in the Shona churches of Zimbabwe: A study of the persistence of a traditional religious belief. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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The healer-prophet in Afro-Christian churches. E.J. Brill, 1992.

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Ejizu, Christopher I. Issues in African traditional religion: Prayer. Regal Press, 1989.

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Priesthood in context: A study of Akan traditional priesthood in dialogical relation to the priest-Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and its implications for a relevant functional priesthood in selected churches among the Akan of Ghana. Lottbek, 1994.

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Stone, Robert L. Sacred steel: Inside an African American steel guitar tradition. University of Illinois Press, 2010.

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Sacred steel: Inside an African American steel guitar tradition. University of Illinois Press, 2010.

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Cook, Donelda A., and Christine Y. Wiley. "Psychotherapy with members of African American Churches and spiritual traditions." In Handbook of psychotherapy and religious diversity. American Psychological Association, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10347-015.

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"TRADITIONAL AFRICAN EXPLANATION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES." In The Healer-Prophet in Afro-Christian Churches. BRILL, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004319844_005.

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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. 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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Anderson, Allan Heaton. "Charismatic Churches and the Pentecostalization of African Christianity." In The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume IV. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199684045.003.0003.

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This chapter articulates how African Pentecostalism emerged as a form of dissent, and formed many different kinds of independent churches, new denominations, and movements of renewal within older churches. In particular it traces those characteristics of dissent that are found in the independent Charismatic churches since the 1970s, and how these have impacted African Christianity as a whole, including Catholic and Protestant churches. It gives examples in turn from West Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa, and critiques the ‘Prosperity Gospel’ that is often a central part of these churches’ appeal. It concludes with a summary of how these churches characterize new forms of dissent.

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"A Traditional African Church." In The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia. I.B.Tauris, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350989023.0009.

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Pimblott, Kerry. "On Jordan’s Banks." In Faith in Black Power. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813168821.003.0002.

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Chapter One provides a broad historical overview of African American community formation in Cairo, illuminating how the region’s economic instability and distinct blend of northern and southern racial practices combined to solidify the Black church’s emergence as the leading institution in local community-building and protest traditions. This chapter argues that the Black church’s preeminence was not inevitable. It was instead a creative and necessary response to broader patterns of Black political marginalization and an absence of alternative institutions due to the precarious economic position of Cairo’s Black working-class. The chapter also contends that the ability of Cairo’s Black churches to fill this organizational vacuum was made possible by the distinctive religious tradition harbored by African American communities across the borderland.

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Garrard, Virginia. "Dissenting Religion." In The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume IV. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199684045.003.0017.

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This chapter traces the trajectory of two major dissenting movements in Latin America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The first is the transition of the Anglican Church in the Caribbean from a colonial church closely linked to England to a denomination that is now mainly attended by African-descendant people; this section also explores Anglicanism’s breakaway churches that promote African and black identity and empowerment. The second half of the article examines the rise of Pentecostalism in Latin America, with particular attention to dynamic and dissenting characteristics, most notably its plastic theology, organic approach to church planting and leadership, and its obverse relationships with Catholic Liberation Theology.

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Kling, David W. "The East African Revival (1930–2000)." In A History of Christian Conversion. 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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"The Church." In Christian Theology and African Traditions. The Lutterworth Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1cg4mp2.16.

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Adamo, David Tuesday. "Psalm 29 in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria." In Psalm 29 through Time and Tradition. The Lutterworth Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1cgf5ms.16.

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