Overview
Preface Introduction PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS African Indigenous Churches The Church of the Lord (Aladura) The Cherubim and Seraphim Church The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire) Zionist Churches in South Africa Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya) Ingigenous Elements of Worship Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches Haitian Voodoo Cuban Santeria Trinidadian Shango Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions Native Baptists Myalism Kumina Jamaican Revivalism Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures South Africa's Apartheid Culture South African Liberation Theology Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism) PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH Christian Theology and Afro Cultures Culture and the Grammer of Faith Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures God: Traditional Motifs God in African Traditional Religion Attributes of God Divine Ubiquity Divine Creator Divine Pastoral Care The Religious Worldview of Africans Christ: A Son Out of Egypt Boundaries of Christology Christ as the Anointment One Christ as Lord of the Heavens Christ as Healer The Liberator and the Liberated Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures The Biblical Tradition The Dogmatic Tradition The African Tradition Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures The Spirit and Black American Religion Spirits in Black Culture Ancestors and Saints Hagiolatry and the Ancestors Ancestorship in the Caribbean Ancestors and Black American Religion Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors Epilogue Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
- | Author: Robert E. Hood
- | Publisher: Fortress Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 01, 1990
- | Number of Pages: 273 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0800624491
- | ISBN-13: 9780800624491
