Chammah J Kaunda
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 219422 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chammah J Kaunda |
| PRENOMES | Chammah J |
| SOBRENOME | Kaunda |
| ASSINATURA | KAUNDA C J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6879-6330 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Björkander, Martina. ‘Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology
BJÖRKANDER, Martina. Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology: A Rhythm That Connects Our Hearts with God. Leiden: Brill, 2024. xvi + 488pp. Pbk. ISBN: 789004682429. €69
Kwame Bediako
This article contends that Kwame Bediako’s theology promotes a decolonial approach to theological education, aimed at restoring an African sense of life’s wholeness. This perspective emphasizes integrating a transformative spirituality centered on the fullness of life by fostering global networks of decolonial friendships and empowering local communities to embrace their cultural identities within the Christian faith. Consequently, Bediako provid…
The Symbolistic Christology in Frantz Fanon's Existentialist Thought
This article attempts to answer a provocative question: Can existentialist thought provide insights into the nature of Christ? Specifically, what might we learn about Christ from existentialist such as Frantz Fanon, even if only implicitly? In offering a response to the question, I propose a symbolistic Christology through an examination of Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks , focusing on his triadic motif: “A Black is not a man” (the nonbeing or de…
‘The Blood That Speaks a Better Word’
How do Pentecostals conceive and understand the notions of the altar and the blood of Jesus in relation to humanity and other created things? How can these notions be expanded to include flourishing by integrating elements of prophetic justice, critical solidarity, and ecological lifestyle within a wounded world? In response to these questions, this article utilizes a withness-hermeneutical realist approach to construct a robust pentecostal theol…
Through Valley of the Shadow of Death
This article engages the concept of death as a revolutionary transformation within the contexts of mind uploading (MU) and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theology of the Omega Point. The focus is not on the Omega Point itself as a conceptual endpoint, nor on what becomes of consciousness once it has been successfully uploaded into a digital substrate. To grasp the meaning of "death" within the context of MU, the article employs the notion of limina…
“Always-Already-Created”
This article suggests the idea of everything is “always-already-created” as a metaphysical framework for making sense of and constructing an African Pentecostal theology of creation in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It argues that everything is always-already-created either as active and continued actualized or as active potential perpetually possibilized and anticipated to be actualized through God's mission of continuous creation.…
Towards a Truly Catholic and a Truly Asian Church, written by Jukka Helle
‘Rivers of Living Water’
Reconstructing Love for God vis-à-vis Religious Intolerance in Nigeria through the Philosophy of Samae Spirit
This article addresses the question of how the spirit of love, as articulated in the Samae spirit (three loves – divine, humanity and environment), can offer a concrete approach to translating divine-love into actionable expressions in a volatile religious pluralistic context, such as Nigeria. Drawing lessons from the theory of the Samae Spirit, we argue that love for God should not be considered in isolation from divine-love for the world and th…
Missional Masculinities in Pentecostalism in Africa
The article argues for missional masculinities from an incarnational framework as the foundation for imitatio Christi among Pentecostal men in Africa. It suggests that since masculinities are defined by societal ideals that men are expected to embody, Pentecostal men should reclaim the divine vision of the new ‘manity’ in Christ. Here, Christ serves not only as the epitome of new humanity but also as the exemplar, setting the standard and modelin…
The Holy Spirit as “the Gift” in Charles Nyamiti's Trinitarian Theology
This article starts from the theology of the Tanzanian-born Charles Nyamiti (1931–2020), as one of the most creative in his generation of African theologians. Nyamiti proposed that ancestral veneration is a foundational human relationship which reflects divine realities. Thus, he proposed an understanding of the Trinity where the Father is the Ancestor, the Son is the Descendant, and the Holy Spirit is the mutual Oblation connecting the two. Beca…
Minding the pentecostal paradox
Employing the pentecostal paradox motif, this survey engages the literature on African Pentecostalism across a spectrum of disciplines in both humanities and social sciences. Utilising a thematic cluster as analytical approach, the study posits that African Pentecostalism represents a decolonial shift from an era of mere beliefs to the era of the dispensation of the Spirit. African Pentecostalism emphasises post-indigenous and transrational appro…
Religion and Inequality in Africa
Visualising the iconography of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid heroes and heroines in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa
Commercialisation of Religion in South Africa
This book gathers scholarly contributions which offer valuable insights into the basics of what is meant by the commercialization of religion
Sawubona. A theo-ethic for everyday decolonial gestures
This article takes a pentecostalicity engagement with the Zulu notion of Sawubona to construct a theo-ethics of everyday decolonial gestures of life-giving, affirmation and enhancing in the context of global coloniality and cultures of death that define and determine life in modern capitalist societies. Pentecostalicity is grounded in the Spirit’s freedom to greet (Sawubona) creation as happened on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2) with pneumatic ges…
A Pentecostal theology of radical sharing
The article argues that although Pentecostal churches in Africa have the potential to challenge and transform the reality of inequalities in Africa, instead, they are reproducing and perpetuating these inequalities by creating an inequality gap among themselves, especially, between the pastors and their fellow congregants. A closer look at some of these churches reveals that some of them are propagating social, political, and economic inequalitie…
Flood this Nation with the Bible’
Ever since the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation in 1991, the Bible has become foundational in the public of life, and often cited in public debates. This article employs symbolic power as an analytical tool to examine Sumaili’s state theology of the Bible which politicized and reduced the Bible in the public into a state apparatus for defining, shaping, and determining the meaning and content for governing Zambia. It proposes a Penteco…
Decolonising the Cultural Landscape
The post-apartheid South African cultural landscape is characterised by complex and contradictory dynamics. On one hand, it is a space where ongoing contestations, anti-racist struggles, and resistance against dominant ideologies persist, challenging the prevailing ways of thinking and perceiving the public sphere. On the other hand, this landscape is also susceptible to political manipulation and serves as a battleground for various class intere…
‘Samae Spirit’ Assist toward ‘Ubuntu Spirit’ Model for Rural Adult Christian Education in Zambia
This article argues that in the ongoing effort to promote ubuntu spirit as an instrument for decolonization, the church in Zambia can learn lessons from how Rev Pai Min-soo deployed the indigenous model of samae spirit to construct adult Christian education for Korean rural development. The samae spirit is utilized to underline the necessity for the affirmation of the ubuntu spirit for the critical consciousness of the rural dwellers in Zambia. I…
“Drinking from Our Own Wells”
This article is written in honor of Tongshik Ryu (Tong‐sik Yu), a thinker who has greatly contributed and influenced the shaping of Korean indigenous theology. It takes an appreciative historical reconstruction of his Korean cultural theology of P'ungryudo. It argues that to fully appreciate and understand Ryu, we must give attention to his personal experiences and the cultural crisis of his time. Ryu was born and raised in the context of Japanes…
Jaulung Wismar Saragih
This study explores the theological significance of Jaulung Wismar Saragih (1888-1968), the first-generation Christian, ordained pastor and theologian from the Simalungun ethnic group. He was also the first local person to translate the Bible into his local language in the Indonesian context. Saragih’s theological thinking foregrounded Indonesian postcolonial contextual theology regarding the identity and role of the church for social transformat…
The Queer Faith Tensions
Pentecostal Rationality
Context, Plurality, and Truth
Mika Vähäkangas. Context, Plurality, and Truth: Theology in World Christianities. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick, 2020. Pp. x + 216. $26.00.This book, filled with rich insights and timeless wisdom, attempts to map out the landscape for theology in the context of pluralism and globalization. Within this framework, the study underlines religious plurality both within and outside Christianity. It identifies plurality as a positive impact rather than a thr…
The Altars Are Holding the Nation in Captivity
The study draws on ontocracy political theory to investigate Zambian Pentecostal interpretations of politics as a sacred realm of contestations between forces of good and evil. It argues that Zambian Pentecostal theology of nationality is a continuation of traditional African religio-cultural ethnonational heritage. It demonstrates how Zambian Pentecostal theology of nationality is based on socio-historically constructed conceptions that drew the…
Mobilising Religious Assets for Social Transformation
The article argues for a theology of decolonial reconstruction to aid the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs (MNGRA) in its search for a new political vision for Zambian society. The MNGRA was established in 2017 by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to strengthen the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation. The second republican President Frederick JT Chiluba declared Zambia a Christian nation (hereafter, the Declaration) on 29 De…
Bemba Mystico‐relationality and the Possibility of Artificial General Intelligence (Agi) Participation in Imago Dei
This article interrogates the challenge artificial general intelligence (AGI) poses to religion and human societies, in general. More specifically, it seeks to respond to “Singularity”—when machines reach a level of intelligence that would put into question the privileged position humanity enjoys as imago Dei. Employing the Bemba notion of mystico‐relationality in dialogue with the concepts of the “created co‐creator” and Christ the Key, it argue…
Reconstituting Ndembu traditional eco-masculinities
This article engages with the notion of Ndembu traditional eco-masculinities which was conceptualised in a framework of sacrifice as ground for manliness. I utilised this view as hermeneutical point of departure for reconceptualising African Christian masculinities that are ecologically sensitive. Framed within theodecolonial imagination, the article suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of Christian sacrifice in dialogue with Ndembu notion a…
Spirit Name ( Ishina Lya Mupashi ) and Strong Artificial Intelligence (Strong AI)
This article probes the prospects of personhood in strong artificial intelligence (Strong AI) from a Bemba theo-cosmological perspective. Employing an interdisciplinary perspective, it argues that the Bemba concept of spirit name ( ishina lya mupashi) can make a constructive contribution to a theo-cosmology of the possibility of the personhood of strong AI. This article shifts the discussion from individualized superhuman-intelligence informed to…
Cleaning up the Church
"Cleaning up the Church": African Neo-Pentecostalism, Language Ideology, and State Regulation of Religious Freedom Chammah J Kaunda Chammah J Kaunda CHAMMAH J. KAUNDA (BTh, Evangelical Seminary of Southern Africa, South Africa; BTh Honors, MTh (cum laude), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; MAS, Institut OEcménique de Bossey/Université de Genève– Faculté Autonome de Théologie Protestante, Switzerland; PhD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pie…
Religio-cultural heritage of libation, memory and Obang cultural history, Northwest Cameroon
This article argues that libation, often associated with the ancestors, artefacts, images and pre-Christian religious devotions, constitutes sources for articulating authentic African cultural history of Obang community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. It highlights that among traditional memory carriers, the ritual of libation remains trust worthy and pervasive, even among communities challenged by globalisation and colonising effects of Chr…
The Ngabwe Covenant' and the Search for an African Theology of Eco-Pneumato-Relational Way of Being in Zambia
This study explores the ways in which the born-again traditional leaders in Zambia are redefining neo-Pentecostal interaction with nonhuman creation. It demonstrates their attempts to rapture new religious imaginations in interstitial spaces between neo-Pentecostalism and Africa's old spiritual systems. Since eco-spirituality is foundational to most African traditional institutions, some born again traditional leaders are forced to search for con…
Baptising Zambia’s Edgar Chagwa Lungu’
This article employs a public theology approach from the perspective of a decolonial theory. It analyses how the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian Nation functioned as a nationalist neo-colonial ideology during the presidential campaign of 2016. It did so in a way that was designed to legitimize President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s political candidacy and moral authority within the Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector. The analysis seeks to demo…
Embodied ancestors
In African spirituality, ancestor engagement with the community is always mediated through material objects. This article argues that materiality gives meaning and validity to the ancestral system. Ancestral objects are an embodiment of the ancestors or ancestral meaning-making, which links the visible community to the world of the spirits. However, ancestral objects also draw meaning and validation from those who inherit them, such as kings or t…
The Day of Prayer and Its Potential for Engendering Public Ecclesiology Ecumenism in Zambia
This article argues that while the National Day of Prayer in Zambia has its inception in political context, it has obligated the institutional churches to break out of their religiously fixed spaces, forcing them to suspend their official doctrinal positions for that specific day, and embrace each other in enacting what could be classified as "public ecclesiology ecumenism". The article defines public ecclesiology ecumenism as the manifestation o…
The need for leadership in gender justice
Underpinned by missiological thinking, the article argues that, in a context searching for gender justice, the mission of God should begin with making sensitive the consciousness of Swazi church leaders who, in turn, would act as agents for transforming social consciousness.In this process, the leaders become critically aware that they are called to act as prophetic example by adopting a gender-sensibility posture and calling the local church to …
The Denial of African Agency
In this article, I argue for the recovery of a form of materio-spirituality-centred thought and wisdom for reconstructing an African theo-pedagogy for theological education for the decolonization of the mind. The aim of this work is to suggest how one can reclaim and reconstitute the core materio-spirituality features that are innovating and can provide the backbone for African theological education for the decolonization of the mind, without rom…
A Voice Shouting in the Wilderness’
The purpose of this article is to contribute to an on-going call for more life-giving public prophetic preaching in the context of multidimensional social injustice in Africa by evaluating some sermons of Desmond Tutu as an African model for public prophetic preaching. Tutu has been one of South Africa’s leading sociotheological praxis theologians esteemed for persistently calling for social justice, moral-ethical responsibility and social emanci…
Towards an African ecogender theology
The struggles for environmental and gender justice have challenged how theology is done in Africa. This article framed within the context of continuous search for life-giving African Christianity, argues that a radical relational solidarity that existed between African humanity and environment in some Zambian traditional societies was grounded on ecogender principle. Thus, it seeks to probe deeper into contemporary challenge of African men’s alie…
Reconstituting Ndembu traditional eco-masculinities
This article engages with the notion of Ndembu traditional eco-masculinities which was conceptualised in a framework of sacrifice as ground for manliness. I utilised this view as hermeneutical point of departure for reconceptualising African Christian masculinities that are ecologically sensitive. Framed within theodecolonial imagination, the article suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of Christian sacrifice in dialogue with Ndembu notion a…
“From Fools for Christ to Fools for Politicians”
This study analyzes how Zambian Pentecostals understand the meaning of the Declaration (i.e., a 1991 statement by President Chiluba that Zambia is a Christian nation) in relation to politics. Employing empirical missiological approach, the study demonstrates that Pentecostals hold to two diverging political perspectives—transforming politics from within and maintaining a subversive political imagination.
HIV & Aids in Africa
God’s Image and Global Cultures
Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu
This article investigates how the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation (hereafter the Declaration), presidential photography and social media intersected during Edgar Lungu’s political campaign in the general election of 2016. It is framed within a missio-political theory to analyse qualitative material collected from January 2016 to February 2018 in Zambia. The missio-ethnography approach as an empirical missiological research which sough…
Violent Conversion
The Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity
The Altars Are Holding the Nation in Captivity
The study draws on ontocracy political theory to investigate Zambian Pentecostal interpretations of politics as a sacred realm of contestations between forces of good and evil. It argues that Zambian Pentecostal theology of nationality is a continuation of traditional African religio-cultural ethnonational heritage. It demonstrates how Zambian Pentecostal theology of nationality is based on socio-historically constructed conceptions that drew the…
Mobilising Religious Assets for Social Transformation
The article argues for a theology of decolonial reconstruction to aid the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs (MNGRA) in its search for a new political vision for Zambian society. The MNGRA was established in 2017 by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to strengthen the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation. The second republican President Frederick JT Chiluba declared Zambia a Christian nation (hereafter, the Declaration) on 29 De…
The Day of Prayer and Its Potential for Engendering Public Ecclesiology Ecumenism in Zambia
This article argues that while the National Day of Prayer in Zambia has its inception in political context, it has obligated the institutional churches to break out of their religiously fixed spaces, forcing them to suspend their official doctrinal positions for that specific day, and embrace each other in enacting what could be classified as "public ecclesiology ecumenism". The article defines public ecclesiology ecumenism as the manifestation o…
Baptising Zambia’s Edgar Chagwa Lungu’
This article employs a public theology approach from the perspective of a decolonial theory. It analyses how the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian Nation functioned as a nationalist neo-colonial ideology during the presidential campaign of 2016. It did so in a way that was designed to legitimize President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s political candidacy and moral authority within the Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector. The analysis seeks to demo…
Faith in Flux
In Search of Decolonial Eschatology
Situated within relational spirituality, the article suggests a possibility of decolonizing the eschatological future from a Bemba futuristic perspective. It argues that in order to reorder social relations for life-giving of any former colonized group, their vision of the future must be decolonized and brought into dialogue with the missio Christi which encapsulates an eschato-decolonial vision. Eschato-decolonial future is proposed an option ar…
Embodied ancestors
In African spirituality, ancestor engagement with the community is always mediated through material objects. This article argues that materiality gives meaning and validity to the ancestral system. Ancestral objects are an embodiment of the ancestors or ancestral meaning-making, which links the visible community to the world of the spirits. However, ancestral objects also draw meaning and validation from those who inherit them, such as kings or t…
Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism
“The Emptied Authority”
This article argues that African Neo-Pentecostalism has adopted indigenous notions of sacred authority through the paradigm of modernisation. Employing Rev. Timothy Omotoso’s case study on sexualisation and gendered exploitation of women and girls in South Africa, the article illustrates that the impact of modernisation is more evident in the individualised, fragmented and fundamentalised way in which Neo-Pentecostalism has resourced indigenous s…
‘To Engage in God’s Mission of Struggle for Abundant Life’
Nyambura Jane Njoroge is one of the most courageous, impeccable and emancipatory African theological voices who have engaged in the unceasing search for transforming theological education in Africa. This article takes an appreciative inquiry in engaging Njoroge as a lens to conceptualize what is seen as her main concern in ecumenical theological education for African Christianity. The second aim is to investigate what she has perceived to be sign…
The Ecumenical Review
Your Neighbour Is Yourself Reflected in the Mirror of Life
This paper engages with the narrative of the Good Samaritan from a Naga perspective in the context of COVID‐19. It demonstrates how Naga Indigenous hospitality, as opposed to contemporary Christianized hospitality in Nagaland, has an affinity with the teaching of Jesus in the narrative. The pertinent question it raises is what the Good Samaritan hospitality would look like if articulated from an Indigenous context during a pandemic. The paper arg…
“A Mosaic Community Together in the Journey of Faith”
This article demonstrates how missional churches have emphasized accompaniment as missiological foundation in the COVID‐19 pandemic season. Employing ethnographical method, interviews, and virtual church visits as the primary approach, the paper explores how NextGen Church as the embodiment of Christ’s love has moved communities to solidarity and unity in the middle of global suffering. It concludes that God is on the mission of love and that the…
Christ’s Love amid Pandemic
In 2022, the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches is to take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, at a time when nations are searching for the strength to rise out of the ashes of COVID‐19. The assembly theme, “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity,” reflects God’s vision for creation. The focus on Christ’s love and its inherent power to move the world to reconciliation and solidarity is necessary, as the assembly will gathe…
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