Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"African Christians"”.
-
Reverse Mission: African Christians in Cambridge London and Lagos
… secularisation occasioned by non-white migrant Christians converting white non-migrant non-Christians. Instead, this study explores how mainly-Nigerian church members articulate and act upon their divinely-commissioned purpose in their country of residence, the UK. The observations emerge from …
-
Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise
My thesis is that early African Christians engaged in critical dialogue with their missionary counterparts in a variety of ways and forms which served to challenge and enrich the Christianization process in South Africa, eventually giving rise to the emergence of African Christianity and …
-
Tithes and offerings in the South African context: the bible and reality
… practice adopted by urban, middle-class, South African Christians in response to the Biblical approach to giving to God's work. This study surveys and interrogates traditionally held views about the Biblical approach to tithes, offerings and giving to God's work, and then compares them to the …
-
Intersecting religion and culture: A comparative study of circumcision rites in the Old Testament and Yorùbá culture
… does not eliminate its cultural relevance within African Christian life. The results make clear that the Old Testament's covenant theology provides the indispensable matrix for understanding the meaning of the ritual, which shapes both Jewish identity and how African Christians negotiate the …
-
Mission Churches and African Marriage in Zimbabwe 1890-1970: Contemporary African Christian Dilemmas Over Marriage in Historical and Theological Perspective
Chapter 1 reviews the relevant literature on African marriage and states the objectives of this study. Chapter 2 describes the main features of the African (Shona) customary marriage of Zimbabwe which are commonly practised among other African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. Missionary …
-
A theology of persecution and Christian endurance: Cain, Abel, and a ‘Black Book of Acts’ among the St. Thomas Moravians, 1732-1740
… St. Thomas Island Moravians, one of the first African-led, multicultural churches in the Americas. Enslaved African Christians have been overlooked among the historical narratives of those who endure faithfully under anti-Christian persecution, as scholarly focus on their ethnic suffering has …
-
The necessity of the second phase of Evangelization among Vambunza in the Bunya area of the northeastern parts of Namibia
… that the Vambunza should appreciate being Christians, while not rejecting their African religious and cultural roots. The study suggests that the Vambunza should own Christianity in such a way that it becomes a genuine answer to the totality of the way of their life. Therefore, there is an …
-
Unity negotiations between the Bantu Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa (1959-1971)
… But the history of colonisation and of African resistance to it has largely shaped attitudes against proposals for a united church. European missionaries were seen by many Africans as identical with the colonial powers, and the gospel was regarded as a weapon to disarm them. In a brief …
-
Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
… the period preceding British colonial rule, most Christians were mission employees (usually teachers) and their families. Being Christian was, in one sense, a livelihood. In this era before the British altered the political economy, education had only limited appeal, while the teaching profession …