[PDF] Ecclesiastical Conversion As A Social Process eBook

Author : Ulrich Luig
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 375349299X

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Conversion as a Social Process presents a detailed and multi-facetted account of the genesis of an African mission church in Southern Zambia. Its main theme is the transformation of European missionary Christianity into an important medium for Africans to negotiate creatively the challenges of the modern world. The first part of this case study scrutinizes the contextual conditions, and the consequences, of the translation process of the European missionary message into the forms of African culture and modes of thought. The second part analyses the developments of post-colonial and post-missionary African Christianity in a rural setting. It argues that Christian ethics and world view offer new means of self-identification in a complex world. Drawing on local oral sources, archival material and ethnographic literature the book represents a new genre of intercultural Church history.

Author : Donald L. Gelpi
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809137961

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Using reflections, exercises, and suggestions for prayer and group sharing, this practical book explores five forms of conversion, the seven dynamics that structure the process and the significance for conversion of sacramental worship.

Author : Giuseppe Giordan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047444949

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This book's chapters assess the nature of conversion and present data on specific convertion types, experiences, and theories including such topics as heroes, semiotics, new towns, pilgrimages, the New Age, relations among Catholics, Afro-Brazilians, and Protestants in Brazil, re-conversionist movements, Soka Gakkai, and the LDS church.

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Christian converts
ISBN : 0195320921

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Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Author : Colleen Campbell
Publisher : Catholic Apostolate Center
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1733734074

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The Art of Accompaniment: Theological, Spiritual, and Practical Elements of Building a More Relational Church, is a resource from the Catholic Apostolate Center which assists in the development of true accompaniment within the Church Today. Building on the Church's rich history of accompaniment, The Art of Accompaniment makes theological and practical elements come to life and easily attainable.

Author : Thomas Pickles
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0198818777

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A study of social organization, political power, conversion to Christianity, and church building in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire in 400-1066 AD, Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the decision of local kin-groups to convert to Christianity transformed kingship, society, and even the physical landscape.