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Impact of Christianity in Africa

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ID9767527
AuthorsEmory Ross (corresponding author)
Year1955
Volume298
Issue1
Pages161-169
Publication date1955-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271625529800117
OpenAlexW2120140884
LanguageEN

our day face a challenge not before put to so large a group of people. This challenge is for an unprecedentedly complex triple change: 1. Horizontal change, across the whole range of concepts and practices of life -in thought, language, religion, political and social organization, land, marriage, inheritance, occupations, economics, housing, disease causation and cure, recreation, communications of all kinds, and in nearly every other aspect of life. 2. Vertical change, from the most primal large society remaining on earth, the animistic communal primitivism of 160 million Africans, to something approaching the West's present society, the most individualistic, specialized, and technological society which the world has yet seen. 3. Speedy change, both horizontally and vertically, at a pace not before attempted by any such mass-change attempted by many thousands of Africans in a two or three generations instead of in the three or four milleniums nor

Archaeology · Causation · Christianity · Economics · Environmental ethics · Face (sociological concept · Geography · Individualism · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Pace · Political science · Politics · Recreation · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Technological change · African cultural and philosophical studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development

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