Ogbu U Kalu
Biographic Data
| ID | 215320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ogbu U Kalu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ogbu U |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalu |
| SIGNATURE | KALU O U |
| AFFILIATIONS | McCormick Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Missionaries, Colonial Government and Secret Societies in South-Eastern Igboland, 1920–1950
In recent historiography a critical and nationalist approach has replaced the hagiographical celebration of the triumph of christianity by missionary writers. Missionaries were the path-finders of British influence; their propaganda not only prepared the way for the government and exploiters but ensured the smooth and peaceful occupation of colonialist forces. The more interesting relationship was that which existed between missions and the colon…
Holy Praiseco
In post-colonial Africa, Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity has slowly emerged as an influential shaper of culture and identity through its use of music, media, and dance. This article gives an overview of the transitions that have occurred in African politics, identity awareness, and culture, especially as it relates to the indigenous village public and it’s interface with the external Western public, and how the emergent cultural public has b…
Christ Holy Church International
Ask and You Shall be Given
African Pentecostalism
The Bible and African Christianity
Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe
Pentecostalism and Mission in Africa, 1970–2000 Le pentecôtisme et la mission en Afrique, 1970–2000 Pentekostalismus und Mission in Afrika, 1970–2000 Pentecostalismo y misión en África, 1970–2000
Pentecostalism is growing rapidly in Africa driven by a passion for mission. This paper argues that the contemporary Pentecostal movement has its roots in a youthful charismatic movement that arose among mainline churches in the 1970s. The profile of the origins is explored with two case studies from Nigeria and Kenya. The character of the movement and the strategies for mission changed in every decade. This paper explores the increased use of me…
Sharia and Islam in Nigerian Pentecostal Rhetoric, 1970–2003
Pentecostal and Charismatic Reshaping of the African Religious Landscape in the 1990s
In this arcticle, Nigerian Ogbu Kalu utilizes two broad models that emphasize how religion reinvents daily life and culture, and how it does so by utilizing signals of transcendence in the sphere of human existence. Kalu argues that religion needs to be examined as a central category of cultural practice in which lived lives embody an evolving religious understanding of the ultimate meaning of life. Sociologists of religion may miss the driving f…
Safiyya and Adamah
In the year 2000, a new phase of the dysfunctional power of religion exploded into the modern public space in Nigeria. Some regional states in the north of the country exploited a loophole in the 1999 constitution to declare themselves as sharia states. Debate on the constitutional legality, political, socio‐economic and gender implications of this development became complicated by ethnicity and regionalism. Soon, a vast array of human rights org…
Preserving a Worldview
Articles Preserving a Worldview: Pentecostalism in the African Maps of the Universe Ogbu U. Kalu Leading Questions The recent explosion of Pentecostalism in Africa has attracted some measure of scholarly attention as an aspect of the shift of the center of Christianity from the North to the South. Two ancillary questions con- cern the reasons and nature of the shift and the implications for the global character of Christianity. Some have explaine…
Violence in Nigeria
Gospel, culture and mission
Gospel, culture and mission: Revisiting an enduring problem This article reflects on the 1996 Conference on World Mission and Evangelism. The relation between gospel, culture and mission is considered, especially from an Africa perspective, but not reserved to it in application. Apart from considering the problem of appropriate terminology to express the intricacies concerning the subject, a deeper search is conducted into the complex relationshi…
The Dilemma of Grassroot Inculturation of the Gospel
Le probleme de l'inculturation est bien illustre par le conflit entre la communaute Aku (Nord Igboland) et l'Eglise catholique romaine a travers la celebration du culte ancestral Odo. L'orage menacait des 1983 et a eclate au milieu de l'annee 1989 desorganisant l'unite de la communaute et les relations avec la hierarchie ecclesiastique. Le christianisme est percu comme un instrument capable d'assurer une tâche educative et economique, susceptible…
The Dilemma of Grassroot Inculturation of the Gospel
Black Christians and White Missionaries
Color and Conversion
Patterns of conversion to Christianity in Nigeria indicate that paganism collapsed more rapidly among the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria than among the Yorubas of the southwest. Early missionary accounts, dubbed as “missionary historiography,” have explained this phenomenon by the presence and labors of white missionaries. This is the white factor in the missionary enterprise. “Nationalist historiography,” however, has challenged “missionary histor…
Tradition and Transformation in Eastern Nigeria. A Sociopolitical History of Owerri and Its Hinterland, 1902-1947
Myth in Africa
Preface 1. Africa and the oral narrative theory: a critical survey 2. What is myth? 3. Mythmaking in Africa 4. Myth and social reality: the poetic imperative 5. Myth and contemporary African literature 6. Myth, mind and culture: a review of prejudices 7. Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
Primitive Methodists on the Railroad Junctions of Igboland, 1910-1931
PRIMITIVE METHODISTS ON THE RAILROAD JUNCTIONS OF IGBOLAND, 1910-1931 BY OGBU U. KALU (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) The Primitive Methodists declared 1931 a Jubilee Year with a book aptly entitled, Ak,uko Oke Onu (A Story of Great joy). The in- domitable missionary, Fred William Dodds, painted a picture of a missionary enterprise in Igboland which had proved to be a huge success. He illustrated it with the story of Uzuakoli. Apparently, the fir…
The History of Christianity in West Africa
Divided People of God
Continuity in Change
A significant aspect of the religious scene in the early Stuart period was the survival of vibrant religious nonconformity in spite of Bancroft's “reconstruction of the English Church.” Historians have recently concentrated on the periods of excited religious politics under Elizabeth and the latter part of Charles I's reign and have tended to accept Hacket's Restoration apology that there was no serious opposition to official religious policy in …
Bishops and Puritans in Early Jacobean England
King James I's reign was a landmark in the history of the Anglican Church. His religious settlement included the codification of the canons which gave definition and cohesion to the church and reformed her adminstrative machinery. But this touched off a pamphlet war as puritan propaganda sought to force a reappraisal of the settlement. They alleged that bishops harassed and deprived hard-working, conscientious, loyal clergymen who merely rejected…
Holy Praiseco
In post-colonial Africa, Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity has slowly emerged as an influential shaper of culture and identity through its use of music, media, and dance. This article gives an overview of the transitions that have occurred in African politics, identity awareness, and culture, especially as it relates to the indigenous village public and it’s interface with the external Western public, and how the emergent cultural public has b…
Pentecostal and Charismatic Reshaping of the African Religious Landscape in the 1990s
In this arcticle, Nigerian Ogbu Kalu utilizes two broad models that emphasize how religion reinvents daily life and culture, and how it does so by utilizing signals of transcendence in the sphere of human existence. Kalu argues that religion needs to be examined as a central category of cultural practice in which lived lives embody an evolving religious understanding of the ultimate meaning of life. Sociologists of religion may miss the driving f…
Safiyya and Adamah
In the year 2000, a new phase of the dysfunctional power of religion exploded into the modern public space in Nigeria. Some regional states in the north of the country exploited a loophole in the 1999 constitution to declare themselves as sharia states. Debate on the constitutional legality, political, socio‐economic and gender implications of this development became complicated by ethnicity and regionalism. Soon, a vast array of human rights org…
Bishops and Puritans in Early Jacobean England
King James I's reign was a landmark in the history of the Anglican Church. His religious settlement included the codification of the canons which gave definition and cohesion to the church and reformed her adminstrative machinery. But this touched off a pamphlet war as puritan propaganda sought to force a reappraisal of the settlement. They alleged that bishops harassed and deprived hard-working, conscientious, loyal clergymen who merely rejected…
Continuity in Change
A significant aspect of the religious scene in the early Stuart period was the survival of vibrant religious nonconformity in spite of Bancroft's “reconstruction of the English Church.” Historians have recently concentrated on the periods of excited religious politics under Elizabeth and the latter part of Charles I's reign and have tended to accept Hacket's Restoration apology that there was no serious opposition to official religious policy in …
Divided People of God
The History of Christianity in West Africa
Primitive Methodists on the Railroad Junctions of Igboland, 1910-1931
PRIMITIVE METHODISTS ON THE RAILROAD JUNCTIONS OF IGBOLAND, 1910-1931 BY OGBU U. KALU (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) The Primitive Methodists declared 1931 a Jubilee Year with a book aptly entitled, Ak,uko Oke Onu (A Story of Great joy). The in- domitable missionary, Fred William Dodds, painted a picture of a missionary enterprise in Igboland which had proved to be a huge success. He illustrated it with the story of Uzuakoli. Apparently, the fir…
Myth in Africa
Preface 1. Africa and the oral narrative theory: a critical survey 2. What is myth? 3. Mythmaking in Africa 4. Myth and social reality: the poetic imperative 5. Myth and contemporary African literature 6. Myth, mind and culture: a review of prejudices 7. Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
Color and Conversion
Patterns of conversion to Christianity in Nigeria indicate that paganism collapsed more rapidly among the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria than among the Yorubas of the southwest. Early missionary accounts, dubbed as “missionary historiography,” have explained this phenomenon by the presence and labors of white missionaries. This is the white factor in the missionary enterprise. “Nationalist historiography,” however, has challenged “missionary histor…
Tradition and Transformation in Eastern Nigeria. A Sociopolitical History of Owerri and Its Hinterland, 1902-1947
Black Christians and White Missionaries
The Dilemma of Grassroot Inculturation of the Gospel
Le probleme de l'inculturation est bien illustre par le conflit entre la communaute Aku (Nord Igboland) et l'Eglise catholique romaine a travers la celebration du culte ancestral Odo. L'orage menacait des 1983 et a eclate au milieu de l'annee 1989 desorganisant l'unite de la communaute et les relations avec la hierarchie ecclesiastique. Le christianisme est percu comme un instrument capable d'assurer une tâche educative et economique, susceptible…
The Dilemma of Grassroot Inculturation of the Gospel
Gospel, culture and mission
Gospel, culture and mission: Revisiting an enduring problem This article reflects on the 1996 Conference on World Mission and Evangelism. The relation between gospel, culture and mission is considered, especially from an Africa perspective, but not reserved to it in application. Apart from considering the problem of appropriate terminology to express the intricacies concerning the subject, a deeper search is conducted into the complex relationshi…
Violence in Nigeria
Preserving a Worldview
Articles Preserving a Worldview: Pentecostalism in the African Maps of the Universe Ogbu U. Kalu Leading Questions The recent explosion of Pentecostalism in Africa has attracted some measure of scholarly attention as an aspect of the shift of the center of Christianity from the North to the South. Two ancillary questions con- cern the reasons and nature of the shift and the implications for the global character of Christianity. Some have explaine…
Pentecostal and Charismatic Reshaping of the African Religious Landscape in the 1990s
In this arcticle, Nigerian Ogbu Kalu utilizes two broad models that emphasize how religion reinvents daily life and culture, and how it does so by utilizing signals of transcendence in the sphere of human existence. Kalu argues that religion needs to be examined as a central category of cultural practice in which lived lives embody an evolving religious understanding of the ultimate meaning of life. Sociologists of religion may miss the driving f…
Safiyya and Adamah
In the year 2000, a new phase of the dysfunctional power of religion exploded into the modern public space in Nigeria. Some regional states in the north of the country exploited a loophole in the 1999 constitution to declare themselves as sharia states. Debate on the constitutional legality, political, socio‐economic and gender implications of this development became complicated by ethnicity and regionalism. Soon, a vast array of human rights org…
Sharia and Islam in Nigerian Pentecostal Rhetoric, 1970–2003
Pentecostalism and Mission in Africa, 1970–2000 Le pentecôtisme et la mission en Afrique, 1970–2000 Pentekostalismus und Mission in Afrika, 1970–2000 Pentecostalismo y misión en África, 1970–2000
Pentecostalism is growing rapidly in Africa driven by a passion for mission. This paper argues that the contemporary Pentecostal movement has its roots in a youthful charismatic movement that arose among mainline churches in the 1970s. The profile of the origins is explored with two case studies from Nigeria and Kenya. The character of the movement and the strategies for mission changed in every decade. This paper explores the increased use of me…
African Pentecostalism
The Bible and African Christianity
Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe
Christ Holy Church International
Ask and You Shall be Given
Holy Praiseco
In post-colonial Africa, Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity has slowly emerged as an influential shaper of culture and identity through its use of music, media, and dance. This article gives an overview of the transitions that have occurred in African politics, identity awareness, and culture, especially as it relates to the indigenous village public and it’s interface with the external Western public, and how the emergent cultural public has b…
Missionaries, Colonial Government and Secret Societies in South-Eastern Igboland, 1920–1950
In recent historiography a critical and nationalist approach has replaced the hagiographical celebration of the triumph of christianity by missionary writers. Missionaries were the path-finders of British influence; their propaganda not only prepared the way for the government and exploiters but ensured the smooth and peaceful occupation of colonialist forces. The more interesting relationship was that which existed between missions and the colon…
History (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Religious studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (10 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (9 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (9 works) · History of religions (8 works)