The Paradox of the Margins

The Story of American-Based Seventh-day Adventism in Africa

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ID4898030
AuthorsGabriel Masfa (Department of Religious Studies, Babcock University Ogun State Nigeria, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume52
Issue3-4
Pages292-316
Publication date2022-09-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700666-12340232
OpenAlexW4296271066
LanguageEN
References cited15

The early growth prospects of the American-Based Seventh-day Adventist Church in Africa were blurry because of challenges that early missionaries encountered. However, against all odds, the denomination on this continent shook off setbacks related to its difficult beginnings in the 1900s. Through the investigation of familiar and unfamiliar themes, this article seeks to raise awareness about new dynamics in the context of global Seventh-day Adventism. Adventism would not cease to be a thing of Western origin, but its future can be decisively determined by the hands of its non-Western adherents, who naturally share little of Western culture. The change in the Adventist landscape is not simply a matter of new names of Black origin being added to the church records, but of imposing new realities that necessitate a new way of life, a new vision of leadership, new strategies for mission, and new thinking accommodative of cultural shifts

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · History of religions · Odds · Sociology · Christian Theology and Mission · History · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development

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