Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity
Contributors: Njoku, Akuma-Kalu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781443863902; 9781443870344
Subjects: Igbo (African people); Religion; Christianity and other religions; African; Religious life and customs; Christianity and culture; Doctrines; Christianity; Doctrinal Theology; Catholic Church
Description: Interface between Igbo Theology and Christianity is a timely book that provides new scholarly thinking concerning the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion taking place in the Igbo culture area. This book, a fruit of multidisciplinary conversation among Igbo scholars and Igbophiles, offers concepts, themes, issues, and case studies with deep ethnographic details, some of which do not exist anywhere else in print. It is a major statement of how modern Igbo scholars, social ...
Table of contents: title: Table of contents; introduction; part one; christianity meets igbotraditional religion; the interface of igbo theologyand christianity; ofo na-ogu and mmanwu; the dialectics of igbo and christianreligion in contemporary nigeria; motifs from igbo sacred textsas primary indicators of igbo theologyand religion; part two; distance-nearness, absence-presence; women's religious culturein etcheland; part three; expressions of personal identityin igbo religious languageand the biblical hebrew equivalents; truly igbo and truly christian; "shadows of the good things to come."