TY  - BOOK
AU  - Awoh,Peter Acho
TI  - The dynamics and contradictions of evangelisation in Africa: an essay on the Kom experience 
SN  - 9789956579983
AV  - BV3625.C29 A9 2011eb
U1  - WC266 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon
PB  - Langaa Research & Pub.
KW  - Kom (African people)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Evangelistic work
KW  - Cameroon
KW  - History
KW  - Bekom (Peuple d'Afrique)
KW  - Évangélisation
KW  - Cameroun
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - Missions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-184); Introduction -- Missionary theology -- Motives and methods -- Present day challenges
N2  - This book critically discusses missionary Christianity and colonization in Africa as twin enterprises with a common ambition. While the colonialist set out to invest capital and reap profit, the missionary desire was to tend and turn African souls from damnation. It was this desire that drove the missionaries into the interior, propelled by the belief that no land was too remote to escape their attention and vigilance. It equally kept missionary zeal buoyant. The clarification of the concept of salvation within the Roman Catholic Church during the Vatican II Council set in motion the current lethargy that has in some places crippled the mission itself. In retrospect, one can begin to wonder why Africans became Christians. What reasons motivated the early adherents to cling to this foreign religion? Were there some internal deficiencies in African traditional religions, which the Africans hoped to remedy by joining the new religion? Or was it just part of the wholesale flirting with whatever was foreign and perceived to be modern? What baits were used by the missionaries to entice Africans? Christianity posed a danger to many of the time-honoured answers to African problems. These were the 'values' Africans converting to Christianity were expected to abandon. Why have Christians continually returned to their abandoned roots in time of crisis? This moving, well argued, richly documented and empirically substantiated study concludes by cautioning against the stubborn drive at radical conversion to Christianity with scant regard to the imperatives of enculturation
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