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Author: Hans Burgman
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: Hans Burgman
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: Paolo Tablino
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN: 9966217843
Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Author: John Baur
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Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Lawrence M. Njoroge
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ISBN: 9789966602589
Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Paul Gifford
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ISBN: 9781850659341
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also said to be 80 percent Christian. Under the bland label 'Kenyan Christianity', several different overlapping realities can be distinguished, and it is these which Gifford investigates in this book, relating them to the country's politics and public life. The politically engaged form that challenged the dysfunctional one-party state in the early 1990s is given due prominence, but Gifford contends that today the mainline churches, both Catholic and Protestant, are marked less by such political engagement than by their involvement in development, in which foreign missionaries and global networks play a huge role. The theology of Kenya's mainline churches is consciously focused on African culture, as a non-negotiable foundation, and the Catholic church has an additional agenda - to Africanise its religious congregations. Kenya is also noted for its rich variety of African indigenous Churches, all originating in a defence of Kenyan cultures, while in recent decades countless Pentecostal churches have also sprung up. They range from affluent middle class churches to refuges for the poor, but nearly all are characterised by a stress on power, success, achievement and prosperity that prioritises modernity rather than traditional culture. Gifford discusses their deployment of the media, crusades, organisation, theology and use of the Bible, and above all the economics that has made this phenomenon possible. Yet another distinct form is an enchanted Christianity in which demons or spiritual forces are deemed responsible for almost everything
Author: John Baur (sac.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Gilbert E. M. Ogutu
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Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: Seamus N. Clements
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Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Author: Christine Bodewes
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443855200
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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This book examines the efforts of one particular civil society organization, the human rights ministry of a Catholic parish located in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, to determine the extent to which it was able to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law. It concludes from an analysis of the social, economic and political environment of Kibera as well as church structures, that parishioners demonstrated an observable improvement in their democratic values and behavior at a localized level, but they did not increase their involvement in advocacy and lobbying efforts. Parishioners were inhibited from holding government officials to account for their abuse of power primarily due to fears of retaliation; other factors such as apathy, ethnic divisions, limited resources and restrictive church protocols further curtailed their actions. The findings of this book are important for scholars and students active in the fields of political science, African Christianity, development studies, international law and human rights. This book is also an important resource for practitioners who are addressing the social, legal, political challenges facing the urban poor in Africa.
Author: Alexander Lucie-Smith
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN: 9966082328
Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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