TY - BOOK AU - Orobator,A.E. TI - Religion and faith in Africa: confessions of an animist SN - 9781608337422 AV - BR1360 .O76 2018 U1 - 276 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Maryknoll, New York PB - Orbis Books KW - Christianity KW - Africa KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Religions KW - Relations KW - Christianisme KW - Afrique KW - RELIGION / Christianity / History KW - bisacsh KW - Interfaith relations KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction -- Faith of my father, spirit of my mother -- Africa, my Africa -- The medicine room -- Inside the mind of an animist -- Animism embodied -- Some guiding instructions for the road -- The miracle of a century -- So, once upon a time. . . . -- The apostle and the queen -- The missionaries are coming -- Let the scramble begin -- Reading between the lines -- Beware of gifts -- The mode of the receiver -- Numbers don't lie? -- A marketplace of faiths -- What's in a name? -- What about Islam? -- Sowers and reapers of wrath -- Religion and politics -- Below the surface -- The dark side of light -- The spirit of African religion -- Pathological performance and prophetic practice -- The ghost and the darkness -- A religion of underdevelopment -- Religion works -- Pathological performance -- Prophetic practice -- Healing the earth, healing humanity -- Tears of a woman -- The enemy is us -- Creative animism -- Ecological gratitude -- Ecology as fullness of life -- Ecology as covenant -- The backbone of the church or gender rhetoric -- Numbers, words, and beyond -- Evolution and revolution -- An inventory of inequality -- Untapped leadership potential -- African women changing the face of theology -- Backbone of the church; The flourishing of religions -- Things are happening everywhere in Africa -- Christians are talking, singing, preaching, writing, arguing, discussing -- The root of all evil? -- Religion of the people, by the people, and for the people -- Conclusion -- Could this be an empty show? -- Suggested readings -- African religious and spiritual traditions in contemporary scholarship -- African Christianity and mission in history -- African women in theological discourse -- African theology, ethics, and church UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1788749 ER -