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Domesticating a religious import : the Jesuits and the inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980 by Nicholas M Creary; Project Muse is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Annotation Catholic theologians have developed the relatively new term "inculturation" to discuss the old problem of adapting the church universal to specific local cultures. Europeans needed a thousand years to inculturate Christianity from its Judaic roots. Africans' efforts to make the church their own followed a similar process but in less than a century. Until now, there has been no book-length examination of the Catholic church's pastoral mission in Zimbabwe or of African Christians' efforts toinculturate the church. Ranging over the century after Jesuit missionaries first settled in what is now Zimbabwe, this enlightening book reveals two simultaneous and intersecting processes: the Africanization of the Catholic Church by African Christians and the discourse of inculturation promulgated by the Church. With great attention to detail, it places the history of African Christianity within the broader context of the history of religion in Africa. This illuminating work will contributeto current debates about the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe and throughout Africa

Author

Nicholas M Creary; Project Muse

Publisher

Fordham University Press New York University Press [distributor

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823248803

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Humanities