Creativity and Change in Nigerian Christianity.
Title:
Creativity and Change in Nigerian Christianity.
Author:
Ogungbile, O.
ISBN:
9789788422891
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction. Musings on the Ebb and Flow of World Christianity -- Theoretical Issues in Christianity and Change -- 1. Creativity and Change in Nigerian Christianity -- 2. A Bizarre Exodus Typology in Lk 11: 20 -- 3. Daughters of Ethiopia -- Practising Pentecostalism and Revivalism -- 4. Authority in Pentecostalism -- 5. Interrogating the Form and the Spirit -- 6. Noise, fire and flame -- 7. Reinhard Bonnke's crusades in Nigeria -- 8. Youths and Pentecostalism -- 9. Nigeria women and the politics of change -- 10. Women empowerment in Pentecostal experience -- 11. Charasmatic Prophet-Heaers and their healing activities in Yorubaland -- 12. Privatization and commercialization of Christian Message -- Performing and representing Christianity in arts and popular culture -- 13. Prosperity Gospel and social morality -- 14. Forms and Functions of interrogation in Charismatic Christian pulpit discource -- 15. Musical revolution in contemporary Christianity -- 16. Evolutionary Trends in Nigerian Christian Drama -- Encountering the Other -- 17. The turning tides of religious intolerances in Nigeria -- 18. A history of Christian-Muslim Relations in Nigeria -- 19. Interreligious diaogue in Nigeria -- Nigerian Christianity in othe Lands -- 20. Faith without Borders -- 21. God @ eBay: Nigerian churches in South Africa -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
This work provides an overview of Nigerian Christianity. it covers issues such as Pentecostalism, Charismatism, gender dynamics, Muslim-Christian relations, and the arts and performance in Christian traditions as they are transforming contemporary Nigerian society. While focussing on contemporary Christianity, these essays also reflect on Nigeria's history and cultural traditions. Understanding and interpreting the events covered in the essays will enable us to envision the nation's future.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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