AFRICAN THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE:

AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND

CHAPTER 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN THEOLOGY

1: First Phase: "Adaptation"
2: Second Phase: "Incarnation"
3: The Third Phase

CHAPTER 2: SOCIAL CONTEXT OF AFRICAN THEOLOGY

1: Socio-Historical Survey
2: Socio-Economic Analysis - The Voice of Grassroots Africans
3: Socio-Economic Analysis - The Voice of Academic Sociology

CHAPTER 3: CREATION IN AFRICAN THOUGHT

1: Nature and Humanity in African Religions
2: African Views of Creation
3: African Environment and Theological Ethics Today

CHAPTER 4: HEALTH, DISEASE and WHOLENESS

1: Ethnocentrism and African Healing
2: African Lifeworld: the Unity of Religion and Medicine
3: Witchcraft
4: African Theological Response

CHAPTER 5: THE SHIFTING SENSORIUM AND AFRICAN ORALITY

1: African Oral Lifeworld
2: Olfactory Language
3: Gustation and Transition
4: Tactility
5: Sight
6: Implications of the African Sensorium for World Theology and Anthropology
7: To Restore the Balance?

PART II: CHALLENGE and RESPONSE in the 1980s and '90s

CHAPTER 6: CHRISTOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

1: Christ and the Ancestors
2: Christ the Healer
3: Christ As The Ng'anga
4: Other Christologies
5: Christ the Liberator
6: Where From Here?

CHAPTER 7: PLURALISM AND INTERFAITH DIALOGUE

1: Social Context
2: Theological Response
3: Summary

CHAPTER 8: AFRICAN FAMILY IN TRANSITION

1: The Role of Women
2: Polygyny
3: Summary

CHAPTER 9: JUSTICE, PEACE and the INTEGRITY of CREATION in AFRICAN THEOLOGY

1: Justice
2: Peace
3: The Integrity of Creation

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY Part I: "A" to "N"

BIBLIOGRAPHY Part II: "N to "Z"

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