African Christianity: Its Public RolePaul Gifford examines African Christianity in the mid-1990s against the back ground of the continent's current social, economic, and political circumstances. Gifford sheds light on the dynamics of African churches and churchgoers, and assesses their different contributions to political developments since 1989. He also evaluates the churches' role in promoting a civil society in Africa. Detailed analyses of the state of the churches in Ghana, Uganda, Zambia, and Cameroon suggest more general patterns operating widely across sub-Saharan Africa. |
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... Social energies denied outlet in public life were released in sanctified emotional onanism ' , and ' Energies were not so much inhibited as displaced from expression in personal and in social life , and confiscated for the service of ...
... Social energies denied outlet in public life were released in sanctified emotional onanism ' , and ' Energies were not so much inhibited as displaced from expression in personal and in social life , and confiscated for the service of ...
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... social sciences at any rate , if we forgive too much we understand nothing . ' Universal conceptual charity ' cannot deal with social change . [ ... ] It precludes us from making sense of those social changes which arise at least in ...
... social sciences at any rate , if we forgive too much we understand nothing . ' Universal conceptual charity ' cannot deal with social change . [ ... ] It precludes us from making sense of those social changes which arise at least in ...
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... social rehab- ilitation " . Social transformation is inevitable because of " wide diffusion of better principles " which leaven society.'34 Likewise , he writes that in the nineteenth chapter of Leviticus ' all the basic virtues ...
... social rehab- ilitation " . Social transformation is inevitable because of " wide diffusion of better principles " which leaven society.'34 Likewise , he writes that in the nineteenth chapter of Leviticus ' all the basic virtues ...
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Accra African Christianity AICs American Angley Anglican anglophone Apostolic Archbishop Baganda Bamenda Bamileke Bamwoze Baptist Biya blessing born-again Busoga Cameroon Catholic bishops Catholic Church centre Chiluba Christ Christian Council Christian Zionism church leaders Church of Uganda civil society claimed clergy colonial committee conference congregations considerable constitution corruption crusades cultural deliverance Democracy demons Derek Prince diocese Douala Duncan-Williams economic elections élite established Evangelical evangelist example expatriate Faith Gospel Full Gospel funds Ghana Ghanaian groups Ibid important independence International involvement Jesus Kampala Kaunda Kumasi leadership London Lusaka mainline churches ministry Mirror Mission missionaries movement Museveni Muslim nation Ndongmo Nevers Mumba Nigeria Nkongsamba Obote organisations Otabil pastor Pentecostal Pentecostal churches political preaching Presbyterian President priests programme Protestant Rawlings Religion religious role Rwanda social spirit structures Synod theology traditional University Press Western World Yaoundé Zaïre Zambia