The Oberi Okaime Christian Mission
Towards a history of an Ibibio independent church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2511025 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monday B Abasiattai (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 496-516 |
| Publication date | 1989-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1159944 |
| OpenAlex | W1976896586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
Opening ParagraphThe Oberi Okaime Christian Mission has for long attracted the attention of scholars because of the way it developed a special script and even a language of its own. As early as 1937 the International African Institute was encouraging study of it. Today there is again a revival of interest in both the script and the language, and specimens of both as used in 1986 are included below, so as to put them once again on record some fifty years after they were invented. But these are not the primary focus of this article, the purpose oi which is to outline a history of the church, and by doing so to call attention to the wider phenomenon of Christianity in the context of Ibibio culture. The way Ibibio so readily took up Christianity after about 1910 has yet to be understood in detail, while the Spirit Movement in the region needs to be differentiated from such superficially similar movements as the contemporary Aladura or the earlier Garrick Braide movements
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Christian Church · Christianity · Church History · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Movement (music · Paragraph · Phenomenon · Political science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Christian Theology and Mission · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2020 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |