Afro-Christianity at the Grassroots, Its Dynamics and Strategies

The spontaneous and rapid growth of indigenous African Christianity, especially in South Africa, has undermined the appropriateness of the term mainline for the traditional, denominational churches in the area. Some of these churches lost more than twenty-five percent of their membership in the period 1980-1990, while membership of the indigenous churches increased by a similar percentage in the same period. The contributions to this volume are based on grassroots research and each one treats some significant aspect within the life and work of this vast, self-motivating movement, a movement largely ignored for over a century by western-oriented Christianity. The work of these researchers clearly indicates how it is that African Indigenous Churches, with their holistic approach to religion - a feature of traditional African religion - serve as such a dynamic vehicle in effectively addressing the needs of their flocks. A further focus of the essays is on issues faced by these churches within their own church context

Anthropology of religion · Christianity · Dynamics (music) · Grassroots · History of religions · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies

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