Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church
Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far -- the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations. The first part of the book looks at Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism in turn -- including case studies of specific congregations -- showing how each tradition's use of the visual arts reveals an underlying ecclesiology. DeBoer then focuses on six themes that emerge when Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant uses of the visual arts are examined together -- the arts as expressions of the church's local and universal character, the meanings attributed to particular styles of art for the church, the role of the arts in enculturating the gospel, and more. DeBoer's Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church will focus and deepen the thinking of pastors, worship leaders, artists, students, and laypeople regarding what the arts might do in the midst of their congregations.
Born from Lament
There is no more urgent theological task than to provide an account of hope in Africa, given its endless cycles of violence, war, poverty, and displacement. So claims Emmanuel Katongole, an innovative theological voice from Africa. In the midst of suffering, Katongole says, hope takes the form of "arguing" and "wrestling" with God. Such lament is not merely a cry of pain--it is a way of mourning, protesting, and appealing to God. As he unpacks the rich theological and social dimensions of the practice of lament in Africa, Katongole tells the stories of courageous Christian activists working for change in East Africa and invites readers to enter into lament along with them.
Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa
The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African continent and throughout a long historical span. The volume offers historical and thematic essays tracing the introduction of Christianity in Africa, as well as its growth, developments, and effects, including the lived experience of African Christians. Individual chapters address the themes of Christianity and gender, the development of African-initiated churches, the growth of Pentecostalism, and the influence of Christianity on issues of sexuality, music, and public health. This comprehensive volume will serve as a valuable overview and reference work for students and researchers worldwide.
Conflict Transformation and Religion
Writing from a variety of contexts, the contributors to this volume describe the ways that conflict and their efforts to engage it constructively shape their work in classrooms and communities. Each chapter begins with a different experience of conflict—a physical confrontation, shooting and killing, ethnic violence, a hate crime, overt and covert racism, structural violence, interpersonal conflict in a family, and the marginalization of youth. The authors employ a variety of theoretical and practical responses to conflict, highlighting the role that faith, power, and relationships play in processes of transformation. As these teachers and ministers engage conflict constructively, they put forward novel approaches toward teaching, training, care, solidarity, and advocacy. Their stories demonstrate how conflict can serve as a site for positive change and transformation.
Les langues africaines
Cet ouvrage offre une introduction complète aux langues africaines et à leur étude. Ses douze chapitres ont été rédigés par les meilleurs spécalistes africanistes. Ils abordent les quatre grands regroupements de langues opérés par la classification moderne (Niger-Congo, Nilo-saharien, Afroasiatique et Khoisan) ainsi que les domaines centraux de la linguistique théorique (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe), la typologie, la sociolinguistique, la linguistique comparative et les relations entre langue, histoire et société. Les concepts de base et la terminologie spécialisée sont expliqués pour le lecteur non spécialiste.
Dieu au plus près de l'homme
On a tant parlé de Dieu que certains croient « connaître », et nul ne les arrachera à leur certitude. Ils ont trop besoin de Lui pour imaginer un instant que leur chemin ne soit pas le bon. Plus, nombreux, ceux qui ont abandonné la recherche parce qu’ils n’entendent plus le langage qu’on leur tient et que nul ne se soucie vraiment de les rejoindre avec les mots qui sont les leurs. Le Dieu dont on leur parle leur apparaît étranger et inaccessible. Enfermé dans les pages d’un livre, ce Dieu sait-Il vraiment ce qu’eux-mêmes vivent, aiment, souffrent ? N’est-il que le Dieu d’un livre et ne peut-on pas le chercher dans ce qui fait le quotidien de nos vies ? La naissance dâ...
Burundi 1972. Au bord des génocides
La crise de 1972, appelée ikiza -le fléau- par les Barundi, est la plus grave vécue par ce pays avant la guerre civile qui l'a déchiré entre 1993 et 2003. Aucune étude approfondie de cette crise majeure n'existait. Les nombreux documents et témoignages livrés par les auteurs sur ce génocide des élites hutu aideront aussi à réfléchir sur le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994. Les analyses portent aussi sur la construction des propagandes contradictoires et sur le jeu, souvent ambigu, des puissances étrangères.
