African Church History, African Christian Theology, The Study of New Religious Movements in Africa

The Emergence of Buddhism in Africa [Thai Version]

by Patra 黄博 Suwanwatthana

กําเนิดพทุ ธศําสนําในแอฟริกํา(ฉบับปรับปรุงล่ําสุด) ตอนที่ 1 กําเนิดพทุ ธศําสนําในแอฟริกํา(ฉบับปรับปรุงล่ําสุด) ตอนที่ 1

Review: Augustine Okwu, Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions: Conversion in Theory and Practice.

by Jason Bruner

Published in African Studies Quarterly 12:3 (2011), pp 139-140.

Ritual Schism, Instability, and Form: Agency and Its Effect on the Ritual Systems of New and Schismatic Religious Movements

by Justin E. Lane

The draft version of my Masters thesis on cults and ritual instability, sections are being edited for publication, do not quote without permission.
It focuses on the psychological and traditional approaches to "suicide cults" "UFO cults" "new age religion" and the role of the leaders in these religions.

Keywords: Flower of Life, Heaven's Gate, Jonestown, Cult leaders, 2012, millenial / apocolyptic cult, African Initiated Churches, Spiritualism, Cognitive psychology, religious ritual theory, agency.

This thesis concerns the theoretical implications of the instantiation of religious leaders with minimally... more This thesis concerns the theoretical implications of the instantiation of religious leaders with minimally counterintuitive properties in new religious movements. An introduction and review of how new religions and charismatic leadership has been studied in the past is presented followed by a review of Whitehouse’s modes theory and Lawson & McCauley’s ritual competency theory insofar as they can address the subject of leadership within new religious ritual systems. Given the ethnographic and historical record of new religious movements throughout the world, both contemporary and historical, it is defended that ritual competence theory is a more useful tool to study agency in new religious movements. A proposal for a cross cultural empirical investigation of the phenomenon is made in the final sections.

Christ Holy Church International: 1947-2002

by Thomas Oduro

Christ's Holy Church International: The Story of an African Independent Church

by Thomas Oduro

History and Pedagogy of Good News Training Institute” In Ministry in Partnership with African Independent Churches; David Shank, ed. Elkhart, IN; Mennonite Board of Mission, 1991.

by Thomas Oduro

Christ Holy Church International: An African Independent Church in Transition.” Trinity Journal of Church and Theology, Volume XV, Number 2, (July 2005).

by Thomas Oduro

“Water Baptism in African Independent Churches: the Paradigm of Christ Holy Church International” In Baptism Today: Understanding, Practice, Ecumenical Implications. Thomas F. Best, Editor, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2008.

by Thomas Oduro

Biography of Solomon Owusu Krow, 1937-2003 (Published, Dictionary of African Christian Biography, www.dacb)

by Thomas Oduro

Biography of Solomon Owusu Krow, 1937-2003 (Published, Dictionary of African Christian Biography, www.dacb)

by Thomas Oduro

Biography of Agnes Okoh, 1905-1995 (Published, Dictionary of African Christian Biography, www.dacb.org

by Thomas Oduro

Biography of Marius Okoh, 1927-1980 (Published, Dictionary of African Christian Biography, www.dacb.org

by Thomas Oduro

St. Joachim as a Model of Catholic Manhood in Times of AIDS: A Case Study on Masculinity in an African Christian Context

by Adriaan van Klinken

Published in CrossCurrents 61/4 (December 2011), special issue on Embattled Masculinities in Religious Traditions, p. 467-479.

Theology, Gender Ideology and Masculinity Politics: A discussion on the transformation of masculinities as envisioned by African theologians and a local Pentecostal church

by Adriaan van Klinken

Published in the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa no. 138 (2010), 2-18.

As a result of the HIV epidemic, masculinities in sub-Saharan Africa have become problematised. There is called for a... more As a result of the HIV epidemic, masculinities in sub-Saharan Africa have become problematised. There is called for a transformation of masculinities. But what is the vision of such a transformation? This article explores the different visions and strategies proposed by on the one hand some African theologians and on the other hand a local Pentecostal church. The fundamental difference is that the church seeks to transform masculinity within a patriarchal framework while the theologians envision a transformation of masculinity beyond patriarchy, towards a reality called “gender justice”. The article critically analyses and discusses the different masculinity politics and makes a constructive contribution to the debate by providing an eschatological perspective to the transformation of masculinities.