Re-Imaging Modernity
Subtitle: A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity witin Akamba Christianity in Kenya
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
Published: Oct 03, 2012
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781610977418
Description: This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya. It walks into churches, listens to sermons, dances to music, and interviews the people sitting in the pews, all with the aim of understanding how spiritual power enables these churches to function as agents within their contemporary society. Ecclesiastical communities in Africa draw upon divine power in order to engage in modernity-related topics. Humans are not unresponsive to global flows of meaning; they are integrative agents who fashion their world by living in it. The kind of modernity arising from these churches does not blindly follow Western forms, but flows from its own internal logic in which spiritual power occupies central hermeneutical function. Theological resources contribute to the formation of sociological expressions. Divine power pertains directly to human constructs, which then allows the churches to actively "image" God for the development of unique forms of modernity arising on the continent. (Publisher).
Notes: Source title: Re-Imaging Modernity: A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity witin Akamba Christianity in Kenya (American Society of Missiology)