The Power of Interpretation
Conflicting Discourses on New Forms of African Christianity
edited by Klaus Hock
The papers presented in this volume inspect new forms (and the analysis of new forms) of African Christian life. These forms are the result of interactions between European and African Christianities in a realm both “beyond” or “trans” and very “amidst” their specific contexts due to processes of glocalisation and transnational migration. Taken as a whole, the contributions point out that the analysis of new forms of Christian life can no longer successfully claim the power of interpretation by simply holding on to hitherto established hegemonic discourses emphasising the advancement of “African” traditions or of plain Africanisation processes – or of the rejection of “European” traditions in combination with a revitalisation of “African” religious practices, institutions, beliefs, etc. Rather, this analysis may achieve a new power of interpretation by taking into account the impact of new hermeneutic orders as a result of a complex transconfiguration. Thereby, new forms of Christian life in Africa are created in the image of a new African vision beyond essentialist and dichotomic culturalist discourses.
- Edited by Klaus Hock
Other Titles in this Series
Reformation in the Context of World Christianity
Theological, political and social interactions between Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe
Volume 33
Within three years the East and the West have met each other
Die Genese einer missionsunabhangigen schwarzen Kirche im transatlantischen Dreieck USA-Sudafrika-Ostafrika (1921-1950)
Volume 27
Konversion zur Moderne?
Die britische Indianermission in der atlantischen Welt des 18. Jahrhunderts
Volume 13
Zwischen kirchlicher Reform und Kulturimperialismus
Die Bulle Reversurus (1867) und das armenisch-katholische Schisma in seinen transnationalen Auswirkungen
Volume 35
Pandita Ramabai und die Erfindung der Pfingstbewegung
Postkoloniale Religionsgeschichtsschreibung am Beispiel des 'Mukti Revival'
Volume 23
Falling Walls. The Year 1989/90 as a Turning Point in the History of World Christianity
Einsturzende Mauern. Das Jahr 1989/90 als Epochenjahr in der Geschichte des Weltchristentums
Volume 15
Die argentinische Bischofskonferenz und das Drama der nationalen Versohnung
Geschichte und theologische Wurdigung eines ambivalenten Vorschlages
Volume 28
Mission und Okonomie der Jesuiten in Indien
Intermediares Handeln am Beispiel der Malabar-Provinz im 18. Jahrhundert
Volume 14
Auf getrennten Wegen
Lutherische Missions- und Siedlergemeinden in Sudafrika im Spannungsfeld der Rassentrennung (1652-1910)
Volume 16
Deutsche evangelische Kirche im kolonialen sudlichen Afrika
Die Rolle der Auslandsarbeit von den Anfangen bis in die 1920er Jahre
Volume 18
True Catholicism’ in Colonial South Asia
The Independent Catholics in Ceylon and India in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Volume 37
Die Zeit der Reformation aus anderem Blickwinkel
Eine lateinamerikanisch-okumenische Perspektive
Volume 36
The German Protestant Church in Colonial Southern Africa
the Impact of Overseas Work from the Beginnings until the 1920s On behalf of the Sponsors and the Academic Advisory Council of the Study Process on the Role of the German Protestant Work Overseas in Colonial Southern Africa
Volume 21
To give publicity to our thoughts
Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Offentlichkeit / Journals of Asian and African Christians Around 1900 and the Making of a Transregional Indigenous-Christian Public
Volume 31
Pastorale Diplomatie
Die Rolle der Katholischen Kirche und des Erzbischofs Arturo Rivera y Damas im Friedensprozess in El Salvador (1980-1992)
Volume 22
The Bible and Apartheid
Contested Interpretations in the History of Christianity in South Africa and Beyond
Volume 32
Religiose Grenzuberschreitungen / Crossing Religious Borders
Studien zu Bekehrung, Konfessions- und Religionswechsel / Studies on Conversion and Religious Belonging
Volume 20
Owned and Conducted entirely by the Native Christian Community
Der 'Christian Patriot' und die indigen-christliche Presse im kolonialen Indien um 1900
Volume 34
Umstrittene Beziehungen / Contested Relations
Protestantismus zwischen dem sudlichen Afrika und Deutschland von den 1930er Jahren bis in die Apartheidzeit / Protestantism between Southern Africa and Germany from the 1930s to the Apartheid Era
Volume 26
Changing Relations between Churches in Europe and Africa
The Internationalization of Christianity and Politics in the 20th Century
Volume 11
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