Beschreibung
This book sets out to explore the intersection between religion, identity and migration. It challenges static notions of diaspora, stable identities and Western-centred notions of Christianity and offers kaleidoscopic insights from Pentecostal, migrant and intercultural perspectives.
Autorenportrait
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Accra (Ghana).
Andrea Fröchtling is Professor for Practical Theology in Intercultural Perspective at the University of Applied Sciences, Hermannsburg (Germany).
Andreas Kunz-Lübcke is Professor for Biblical Hermeneutics in Intercultural Perspective at the University of Applied Sciences, Hermannsburg (Germany).
Inhalt
Contents: Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu/Andrea Fröchtling/Andreas Kunz-Lübcke: Babel is everywhere! Migrant readings from Africa, Europe, and Asia – Robert K. Aboagye-Mensah: Perspectives on Theological and Biblical Migration and Mission – Jione Havea: Casting Jonah across Seas and Tongues: A transnationalizing reading – Drea Fröchtling: Crossing the Waters of Babylon: Diasporas between Ecumenical Glob/calizations and Spiritual Homelands – Andreas Kunz-Lübcke: Daughters, Priest and Idolaters: Cross-cultural Marriages in the Hebrew Bible - about Ghetto-doors and (sometimes) an Open Society – Chinonyerem Chijioke Ekebuisi: Indigenous Prophetic Figures and Religious Innovation in Africa: The Story of Garrick Sokari Braide of the Niger Delta – Thomas A. Oduro: Socio-cultural Challenges of African Migrant Churches in Africa: A Case Study of the Church of the Lord (Aldura) in Ghana (1953-1974) – Sylvia Owusu-Ansah/J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu: Exporting Charismatic Anointing: Power-Packed Evangelistic Crusades and Ministry in African Diasporas – Emily Phuti Mogase: Migration of Ideas in the Rise of Nationalism: West Africa and the Black Atlantic World around the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries – Frieder Ludwig: West-Africans in Germany – J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu: African Christian Revitalization in Europe: Migration and the Mega-Church Phenomenon – Andrew Rogers: Walking Down the Old Kent Road: A Story of New Black Majority Churches in a London Borough – Michael P. K. Okyerefo: African Catholic Communities in Europe: A Nostalgic Lived Experience – Regina Jach: «You will never be the same again
»: Return Migration from Germany to Ghana and the Impact of Churches – Joseph Quayesi-Amakye: Contemporary Ghanaian Prophetism and Christian Mission in the Diaspora – Anne Kubai: «Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land»: Challenges and New Frontiers for African Churches in Sweden.