Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction Among the Akan of Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa)

Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction Among the Akan of Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa)

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Asante Catholicism focuses on the interaction between post-conciliar Roman Catholicism and Asante religion of Ghana, with its implications for self-definition and cultural renewal. It begins by exploring Asante cultural history, and depicting how their religo-political institutions were affected during contact with European traders, missionaries, and colonial authorities. It further highlights the mutual shaping between Catholicism and the indigenous Asante worldview. The fusion between Christianity and Asante ways creates conflict, innovation, and modification as the Church reinterprets Christian values and figures along Asante notions. For example, Jesus Christ is reconfigured as kurotwiamansa (leopard). Sections on the interface between Catholic beliefs and Asante socio-political institutions are particularly important for missiologists. Finally, the book discusses religious vocabulary, spirituality, theology, and the role of community during social and religious change.

Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction Among the Akan of Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa),J. Pashington Obeng,Pashington Obeng,Brill Academic Publishers,9004106316,Akan (African people),Ashanti (African people),Catholic Church,Christianity - Catholicism,Christianity and culture,Ghana,Interior Design - General,Religion,Religion - Classic Works,Roman Catholic Church,Cultural studies,Ethnic or tribal religions,Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church

Book Contents:

1. Bemba-Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change - 1892-1992 (1892-1992)
2. Building Jewish In The Roman East (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
3. Christianity and African Culture: Conservative German Protestant Missionaries in Tanzania, 1900-1940 (Studies of Religion in Africa)
4. Christmas Window Decorations : 5 Punch-Out Designs
5. Counterexamples in Optimal Control Theory (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems)
6. Critical Theory After Habermas: Encounters and Departures (Social and Critical Theory)
7. Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology
8. Das Selbstverstandnis Der Judischen Diaspora in Der Hellenistisch-Romischen Zeit: Aus Dem Nachalab Herausgegeben Und Bearbeitet Von P.W. Van Der Horst ... Des Antiken Judentums Und Des, 17)
9. Decayed Gods: Origin and Development of Georges Dumezil's "Ideologie Tripartie" (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion)
10. Decorating: Technique and Style

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