عنوان

The Flow of African Spirituality into World Christianity

شماره

LA121193

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Flow of African Spirituality into World Christianity

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Amuluche-Greg Nnamani

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Much of the spirituality peculiar to African Christians bears traces of the influence of African Traditional Religions (atr). Prayer traditions like incantations, melodious choruses and appeal to spirits, typical of atr, have infiltrated the religious life of African Christians both at home and in Diaspora, amongst Christians in the mainline churches as well as in the African Independent Churches. Though the flow of African spiritual heritage into Christianity happened in the early history of Christianity, it accelerated in the lives of slaves in diaspora in the West Indies, the Americas and Europe. Today, the process continues amongst African migrants fleeing the unbearable political and economic strangulations in Africa; they migrate with their culture and spirituality and impact on Christianity worldwide. It is the intent of this paper therefore to explore how the African mystic sentiment, frenzied excitement and spirit-laden spirituality, which combine the sacred and the secular in practical life, influenced Christian worship and thought down the ages and, in recent times, contributed to the emergence of the Pentecostal and charismatic spirituality. Much of the spirituality peculiar to African Christians bears traces of the influence of African Traditional Religions (atr). Prayer traditions like incantations, melodious choruses and appeal to spirits, typical of atr, have infiltrated the religious life of African Christians both at home and in Diaspora, amongst Christians in the mainline churches as well as in the African Independent Churches. Though the flow of African spiritual heritage into Christianity happened in the early history of Christianity, it accelerated in the lives of slaves in diaspora in the West Indies, the Americas and Europe. Today, the process continues amongst African migrants fleeing the unbearable political and economic strangulations in Africa; they migrate with their culture and spirituality and impact on Christianity worldwide. It is the intent of this paper therefore to explore how the African mystic sentiment, frenzied excitement and spirit-laden spirituality, which combine the sacred and the secular in practical life, influenced Christian worship and thought down the ages and, in recent times, contributed to the emergence of the Pentecostal and charismatic spirituality.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

331-352

عنوان

Mission Studies

شماره جلد

32/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1573-3831

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Independent Churches

اصطلاح موضوعی

African spirituality and thought

اصطلاح موضوعی

ancestral worship

اصطلاح موضوعی

Christian antiquity

اصطلاح موضوعی

classical Pentecostalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

diaspora

اصطلاح موضوعی

migration

اصطلاح موضوعی

pneumatology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Amuluche-Greg Nnamani

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15733831-12341413

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y