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Is Africa incurably religious? : secularization and discipleship in Africa / edited by Benno van den Toren, Joseph Bosco Bangura and Richard E. Seed.

Contributor(s): Toren, Bernard van den, 1966- [editor.] | Bangura, Joseph Bosco [editor.] | Seed, Richard E [editor.] | Evangelical Theological Seminary (Cairo, Egypt) [host institution.] | Université de Bangui. Faculté de théologie évangélique. Yaounde campus [host institution.] | Declining Religious Participation (Conference) (2014 : Cairo, Egypt) | Is Africa Incurably Religious? (Conference) (2016 : Yaoundé, Cameroon)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Regnum studies in mission: Publisher: Oxford, UK : Regnum Books International, an imprint of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1913363856; 9781506483696Subject(s): Africa -- Religion | Secularism -- Africa | Christian life -- AfricaBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215).
Contents:
Introduction Can God Die in Africa? / Benno van den Toren and Joseph Bosco Bangura -- Part I : Secularization and Africa's Cultural and Religious Traditions -- Religious Indifference and Critique in Traditional Africa / Eloi Messi-Metogo -- Factors Inherent in African Traditional Religions that Lead to the Secularization of Faith / Abel Ngarsoulede -- Western Secularization, African Worldviews and the Church / Richard E. Seed -- Part II : Secularization, Modernization & Globalization in Today's Africa -- What do we Mean by Secularization in Africa? Contributions and Limitations by the Western Secularization Discourse / Henk van den Bosch -- Do Science and Scientific Education Contribute to Secularization in Africa? An Exploration among Christian Academics and Students in Abidjan and Yaoundé / Klaas Bom -- At the Intersection of Worldviews: Secularism and the African Context of Theological Students in Kenya / Richard E. Seed -- African Neo-Pentecostalism in the Face of Secularization: Problems and Possibilities / Benno van den Toren -- Secularization among the Urban Poor in Nairobi, Kenya / Nancy Njagi and Colin Smith -- Signs of Secularization and Challenges for Discipleship among the Urban Elite in Yaoundé, Cameroon: A Personal Reflection / Epiemembong Louis Ebong -- Secularization Influences on Second Generation and Mixed-Race African Pentecostal Migrants in Flanders (Belgium) / Joseph Bosco Bangura -- Part III : Christian Discipleship in the Context of Modernity -- The Relationship between the Creation Mandate and the Mission Mandate: Intercultural Reflections on African Christian Discipleship in a Secularized World / Benno van den Toren -- Endangered Discipleship: Secular and Religious Resistance in Africa / David E. Bjork -- African Neo-Charismatic Discipleship in a Context of Secularization / Joseph Bosco Bangura.

"December 2014 ... Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt ... 'Declining religious participation : secularization and discipleship in Africa' ... November 2016 ... Yaoundé, Cameroon ... 'Is Africa incurably religious? Secularization and discipleship in Africa II.'"--Pages 4, 6.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215).

Introduction Can God Die in Africa? / Benno van den Toren and Joseph Bosco Bangura -- Part I : Secularization and Africa's Cultural and Religious Traditions -- Religious Indifference and Critique in Traditional Africa / Eloi Messi-Metogo -- Factors Inherent in African Traditional Religions that Lead to the Secularization of Faith / Abel Ngarsoulede -- Western Secularization, African Worldviews and the Church / Richard E. Seed -- Part II : Secularization, Modernization & Globalization in Today's Africa -- What do we Mean by Secularization in Africa? Contributions and Limitations by the Western Secularization Discourse / Henk van den Bosch -- Do Science and Scientific Education Contribute to Secularization in Africa? An Exploration among Christian Academics and Students in Abidjan and Yaoundé / Klaas Bom -- At the Intersection of Worldviews: Secularism and the African Context of Theological Students in Kenya / Richard E. Seed -- African Neo-Pentecostalism in the Face of Secularization: Problems and Possibilities / Benno van den Toren -- Secularization among the Urban Poor in Nairobi, Kenya / Nancy Njagi and Colin Smith -- Signs of Secularization and Challenges for Discipleship among the Urban Elite in Yaoundé, Cameroon: A Personal Reflection / Epiemembong Louis Ebong -- Secularization Influences on Second Generation and Mixed-Race African Pentecostal Migrants in Flanders (Belgium) / Joseph Bosco Bangura -- Part III : Christian Discipleship in the Context of Modernity -- The Relationship between the Creation Mandate and the Mission Mandate: Intercultural Reflections on African Christian Discipleship in a Secularized World / Benno van den Toren -- Endangered Discipleship: Secular and Religious Resistance in Africa / David E. Bjork -- African Neo-Charismatic Discipleship in a Context of Secularization / Joseph Bosco Bangura.

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