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050 4 $aBT83.593$b.L37 2013
082 04 $a253.096$223
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aLartey, Emmanuel Yartekwei,$eauthor.
245 10 $aPostcolonializing God :$ban African practical theology /$cEmmanuel Yartekwei Amugi Lartey.
264 1 $aLondon :$bSCM Press,$c2013.
300 $axxii, 138 pages :$billustration ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 131-133) and index.
505 0 $aGod postcolonializes -- Postcolonializing God in the USA -- Postcolonializing liturgical practice : rituals of remembrance, cleansing, healing and re-connection -- Transcending colonial religion : Brother Ishmael Tetteh and the Etherean mission -- Postcolonializing pastoral care -- Postcolonializing God : a theological imperative.
520 $aPostcolonializing God examines how African Christianity especially as a practical spirituality can be truly a postcolonial reality. The book offers thoughts as to how African Christians and by that token others who were colonial subjects, may practice a spirituality that bears the hallmarks of their authentic cultural heritage, even if that makes them distinctly different from Christians from the colonizing nations. There are themes in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures in which God's activities result in shattering hegemony, overthrowing the powerful, diversifying communities and affirming pluralism. These have by and large been ignored or downplayed in the formation of Christian communities by western and westernized Christians in Africa. The effect of this is that much of the practice of African Christians imitates that of a European Christianity of bygone times. Postcolonializing God charts a different course uplifting these ignored readings of scripture and identifying how they are expressed again by Africans who courageously seek through the practices of mysticism and African culture to portray a God whose actions liberate and diversify human experience. Postcolonializing God seeks to express the human diversity that seems to be the Creator's ongoing desire for the world and thereby to continue to manifest the manifold and diverse nature and wisdom of God. It is only as humans refuse to be created in the image of any other human beings, that the richness and complexity of the divine image will be more closely viewed throughout the world.
590 $bArchive
650 0 $aPostcolonial theology.
650 0 $aPostcolonial theology$zAfrica.
650 7 $aPostcolonial theology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01762430
651 7 $aAfrica.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01239509
655 4 $aProf's picks$y2014$y06 (June)$xHeaney.
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