Kizito Chinedu Nweke
Biographic Data
| ID | 2221136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kizito Chinedu Nweke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kizito Chinedu |
| FAMILY NAME | Nweke |
| SIGNATURE | NWEKE K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Dialogue |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7304-9337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christomatric Mission: A Pastoral-Theological Model for Christian Witness in Pluralistic Societies
This study explores how African Christians in Germany navigate the tension between maintaining their confessional identity and engaging in increasingly pluralistic and secular societies. Recognising the pastoral and theological challenges posed by epistemological relativism and interreligious equality, the research introduces the Christomatric Model as a relational framework for Christian missions. Employing a qualitative methodology with a refle…
Traditional, Church or white Wedding? Conflicting mindsets and the need for synculturation in Igbo Weddings
The issue of wedding is of immense socio-cultural and pastoral concern for the Igbo people. The challenge revolves around the question of which wedding(s) the intending couple should choose. Which wedding is cost effective or more socially acceptable? Which wedding incorporates the extended families or alienates them? These choices are often so interconnected that to choose one is to reject the other. As a result, many young people have started c…
Christianity and The Indigenous Spiritualties of The Igbo People: From Multi-Religiousness to Synculturation
The Igbo people of Nigeria have historically maintained a rich and dynamic spiritual tradition. The advent of Christianity introduced new dimensions to their spiritual landscape, leading to significant shifts in religious beliefs and practices. This study aims to explore the complexities and transformations in the Igbo spiritual landscape following the encounter with Christianity. It seeks to understand how the Igbo people navigate the coexistenc…
On Denominationalism and Inter-Denominationality: Discerning the Signs of the Times in Nigerian Christianity
At this stage of Christianity in Nigeria, the question: “why do we fight with each other?” is not just relevant but cogent. Since the 1880s when Christianity arrived the southern part of Nigeria, there has been rivalry among the Christian denominations – from the struggle for territorial and numerical dominance, to antagonism in educational, political and social spheres. Sadly, this disunity has weakened Christianity as a force to check the exces…
Responding to new Imageries in African indigenous Spiritualties
As a result of rash and incorrect assumptions, African spiritualities have been adulterated, bastardized, and multiplied. Academic studies in African spiritualities "were mostly conducted by Europeans and Americans who were extremely biased and primarily focused their scholarship on comparing African religion with Christianity and Islam. I will approach the new images of African spiritualities from two perspectives: the conflict between religion …
Sieving out the Relevance of African Spiritualities in a Globalised Contemporary World
The re-emergence of African spiritualities is a part of the religious vs spirituality development debate that is ongoing and is sometimes more emphatic outside of the African continent. Africa is said to be domesticating the future of humanity. This is not entirely wrong. A good way to indulge in this view would be to understand the spirit of Africa, embedded in the traditional spiritualities that constructed the cultures, societies, habits, orie…
Multiple Religious Belonging (MRB): Addressing the Tension between African Spiritualities and Christianity
The question of religious pluralism has attracted many responses from the fields of interreligious dialogue and theology of religions. These responses, like inculturation, dialogue, and so on, have been concerned with “how” religions/spiritualities should be inclusive and imbue each other. However, the contemporary challenges of religious pluralism, ranging from the clamor for cultural identity to the structural and ontological differences among …
The Renaissance of African Spiritualities vis-à-vis Christianity: Adopting the Model of Mutual Enrichment
Christianity has been dominant in many parts of Africa especially since its colonial contact. Recently, however, there is a surge of interest in reviving indigenous spiritualities among Africans, both in Africa and in the diaspora. In Lagos, Nigeria, for example, shrines compete with churches and mosques for adherents and positions. Among the Igbos, a form of convenient interreligiousness has been developed in the society. When issues of practica…
Contextualization as a Critical Transformative Agent in Christianity
There is an increasing acceptance that every theology is contextual. There is an equally commensurate rising concerns whether contextualization in theology is not undermining Christianity and devaluing the concept of ‘the Truth’. Among the reasons for this problem are the consequence of a blemished Christian history, the eternal truth of God in an ephemeral world, and the upsurge of pluralistic theologies with the ‘de-westernization’ of Christian…
Between Religiosity and Spirituality: Christianity and the Reemergence of the Immanentist Spiritualities
The reemergence of immanentist spiritualities, from New Age spirituality to African traditional spiritualities, has been indicative of the twenty-first century. The influx of these spiritualities in the West has ripples of implications to Christianity. At the least, spirituality has been separated from religiosity, with some people identifying themselves as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR). This work explores the triangular formulae of new sp…
Dialogues and Conflicts among Religious People: Addressing the Relevance of Interreligious Dialogue to the Common Public
The Necessities and Limitations of Inter-Religious Dialogue
Inter-religious dialogue has been conceived as an antidote to all the problems of religious tensions, attracting resources and expectations.1 However, it has come short of these expectations. In fact, religious tensions are on the increase, despite increased inter-religious encounters.2 Hence, the research question: what exactly are our expectations of inter-religious dialogue and what are its limits? This work distilled out in two areas the nece…
Is syncretism really harmful to Christianity: The Igbos of West Africa as a case study
What culture or society is pure? Which religion has not been influenced by another or other religions? Yet, why is the fusion of some elements of one religion into other religions met with distrust and disapproval? Why is there little or no theological support for the union and assimilation of qualities from one religion into another? Why does it seem that Christianity in particular is exceptionally anti-syncretistic? This work reconsiders under …
The Renaissance of African Spiritualities vis-à-vis Christianity: Adopting the Model of Mutual Enrichment
Christianity has been dominant in many parts of Africa especially since its colonial contact. Recently, however, there is a surge of interest in reviving indigenous spiritualities among Africans, both in Africa and in the diaspora. In Lagos, Nigeria, for example, shrines compete with churches and mosques for adherents and positions. Among the Igbos, a form of convenient interreligiousness has been developed in the society. When issues of practica…
Dialogues and Conflicts among Religious People: Addressing the Relevance of Interreligious Dialogue to the Common Public
The Necessities and Limitations of Inter-Religious Dialogue
Inter-religious dialogue has been conceived as an antidote to all the problems of religious tensions, attracting resources and expectations.1 However, it has come short of these expectations. In fact, religious tensions are on the increase, despite increased inter-religious encounters.2 Hence, the research question: what exactly are our expectations of inter-religious dialogue and what are its limits? This work distilled out in two areas the nece…
Is syncretism really harmful to Christianity: The Igbos of West Africa as a case study
What culture or society is pure? Which religion has not been influenced by another or other religions? Yet, why is the fusion of some elements of one religion into other religions met with distrust and disapproval? Why is there little or no theological support for the union and assimilation of qualities from one religion into another? Why does it seem that Christianity in particular is exceptionally anti-syncretistic? This work reconsiders under …
Contextualization as a Critical Transformative Agent in Christianity
There is an increasing acceptance that every theology is contextual. There is an equally commensurate rising concerns whether contextualization in theology is not undermining Christianity and devaluing the concept of ‘the Truth’. Among the reasons for this problem are the consequence of a blemished Christian history, the eternal truth of God in an ephemeral world, and the upsurge of pluralistic theologies with the ‘de-westernization’ of Christian…
Between Religiosity and Spirituality: Christianity and the Reemergence of the Immanentist Spiritualities
The reemergence of immanentist spiritualities, from New Age spirituality to African traditional spiritualities, has been indicative of the twenty-first century. The influx of these spiritualities in the West has ripples of implications to Christianity. At the least, spirituality has been separated from religiosity, with some people identifying themselves as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR). This work explores the triangular formulae of new sp…
The Renaissance of African Spiritualities vis-à-vis Christianity: Adopting the Model of Mutual Enrichment
Christianity has been dominant in many parts of Africa especially since its colonial contact. Recently, however, there is a surge of interest in reviving indigenous spiritualities among Africans, both in Africa and in the diaspora. In Lagos, Nigeria, for example, shrines compete with churches and mosques for adherents and positions. Among the Igbos, a form of convenient interreligiousness has been developed in the society. When issues of practica…
Sieving out the Relevance of African Spiritualities in a Globalised Contemporary World
The re-emergence of African spiritualities is a part of the religious vs spirituality development debate that is ongoing and is sometimes more emphatic outside of the African continent. Africa is said to be domesticating the future of humanity. This is not entirely wrong. A good way to indulge in this view would be to understand the spirit of Africa, embedded in the traditional spiritualities that constructed the cultures, societies, habits, orie…
Multiple Religious Belonging (MRB): Addressing the Tension between African Spiritualities and Christianity
The question of religious pluralism has attracted many responses from the fields of interreligious dialogue and theology of religions. These responses, like inculturation, dialogue, and so on, have been concerned with “how” religions/spiritualities should be inclusive and imbue each other. However, the contemporary challenges of religious pluralism, ranging from the clamor for cultural identity to the structural and ontological differences among …
Responding to new Imageries in African indigenous Spiritualties
As a result of rash and incorrect assumptions, African spiritualities have been adulterated, bastardized, and multiplied. Academic studies in African spiritualities "were mostly conducted by Europeans and Americans who were extremely biased and primarily focused their scholarship on comparing African religion with Christianity and Islam. I will approach the new images of African spiritualities from two perspectives: the conflict between religion …
Christianity and The Indigenous Spiritualties of The Igbo People: From Multi-Religiousness to Synculturation
The Igbo people of Nigeria have historically maintained a rich and dynamic spiritual tradition. The advent of Christianity introduced new dimensions to their spiritual landscape, leading to significant shifts in religious beliefs and practices. This study aims to explore the complexities and transformations in the Igbo spiritual landscape following the encounter with Christianity. It seeks to understand how the Igbo people navigate the coexistenc…
On Denominationalism and Inter-Denominationality: Discerning the Signs of the Times in Nigerian Christianity
At this stage of Christianity in Nigeria, the question: “why do we fight with each other?” is not just relevant but cogent. Since the 1880s when Christianity arrived the southern part of Nigeria, there has been rivalry among the Christian denominations – from the struggle for territorial and numerical dominance, to antagonism in educational, political and social spheres. Sadly, this disunity has weakened Christianity as a force to check the exces…
Christomatric Mission: A Pastoral-Theological Model for Christian Witness in Pluralistic Societies
This study explores how African Christians in Germany navigate the tension between maintaining their confessional identity and engaging in increasingly pluralistic and secular societies. Recognising the pastoral and theological challenges posed by epistemological relativism and interreligious equality, the research introduces the Christomatric Model as a relational framework for Christian missions. Employing a qualitative methodology with a refle…
Traditional, Church or white Wedding? Conflicting mindsets and the need for synculturation in Igbo Weddings
The issue of wedding is of immense socio-cultural and pastoral concern for the Igbo people. The challenge revolves around the question of which wedding(s) the intending couple should choose. Which wedding is cost effective or more socially acceptable? Which wedding incorporates the extended families or alienates them? These choices are often so interconnected that to choose one is to reject the other. As a result, many young people have started c…
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Religious studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (8 works) · Christianity (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Spiritualities (6 works) · Spirituality (6 works) · Theology (6 works)