The Paradox of Becoming
Pentecostalicity, Planetarity, and Africanity
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Beschreibung
The book is a significant new analysis of African Pentecostal theology of humanity. In particular, it offers a new, more comprehensive interpretation of African Pentecostal theology of humanity ‘in Christ’, which author Chammah J. Kaunda views in terms of becoming, transcending and flourishing. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, fostering dialogue with African studies and Pentecostal studies, but also with a broad spectrum of disciplines and approaches: post-colonial studies, theology, religious studies, cultural anthropology, and philosophy. The aim is to construct a new conceptual metaphor, the poetics of mysticality, materiality and plasticity. In the Bemba (Zambian) notion of Muntu, the author identifies not only a metaphor but also a local African resource for excavating and understanding the deeper roots of African Pentecostal theology of humanism.
Anyone interested in African Pentecostalism, World Christianity, Christian spirituality, African theology, and the sociology of religion will find in this book a wide range of interesting and fresh perspectives.
Autor*in
Chammah J. Kaunda
Themen in »The Paradox of Becoming«
Africanity Pentecostalicity Kairosity Poeticality Mysticality Materiasticity Kenoticity Rituality New (Post)Humanity Paradoxical ontology Muntu Becoming Chammah J. Kaunda The Paradox of Becoming Pentecostalicity, Planetarity, and Africanity