Communities of Faith in Africa and the African Diaspora: In Honor of Dr. Tite Tienou with Additional Essays on World Christianity

Marc Notes: A bibliography of the works of Tite Tienou: pages 381-384.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Foreword / Joel Carpenter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part 1. Africa and the African Diaspora -- 1. The Journey of Tite Tienou: Friends, Colleagues, and Former Students -- 2. Enlarging Christian Coasts: Pentecostalism and Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- 3. Wesleyan Camp Meeting History and the Revitalization of Ghanaian Methodism / Paul Kwabena Boafo -- 4. African Immigrant Religions in the Diaspora / Elias K. Bongmba -- 5. Go Ye into All the West: Models of Mission among Ghanaian Methodists in the Diaspora / Casely B. Essamuah -- 6. New Angles on African Christianity / Paul Kollman -- 7. The Multifaceted Genesis of the 2007-2008 Postelection Violence in Kenya / David K. Ngaruiya -- 8. How Indigenous Traders Brought Christianity to Northern Nigeria / Caleb O. Oladipo -- 9. Sickness and Witches in Northwestern Tanzania: Listening to Pentecostal Ministers / Steven D. H. Rasmussen -- 10. Gender Roles and Recruitment in Southern African Churches, 1996-2001 / Dana L. Robert -- 11. The Role of Personal Friendships in Effective Cross-Cultural Christian Mission / Kenneth R. Ross -- 12. Ethiopian Orthodox Christology: Interacting with an Ancient African Perspective / Stephen Strauss -- 13. Alone and Frightened in Uganda: Living in the Shadow of HIV / Angela M. Wakhweya-Essamuah -- 14. African Evangelists: The Case of Apolo Kivebulaya / Emma Wild-Wood -- Part 2. Other Selected Essays -- 15. The Medium and the Message / Miriam Adeney -- 16. Inculturation and the Church's Mission: Theological and Trinitarian Foundations / Stephen B. Bevans -- 17. Pre-Christendom Faith in a Post-Christendom World / Jonathan J. Bonk -- 18. World Christianity and the New Ecumenical Frontier / William R. Burrows -- 19. Funerary Rites and Ancestral Roles in Japan: Reassessing Their (Non-) Religious Character / How Chuang Chua -- 20. The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Great Commission / J. Nelson Jennings -- 21. Researching Contextualization in Churches Influenced by Missionaries / Robert J. Priest -- 22. Please Be Extra Vigilant: On Being Attentive to World Christianity / Cathy Ross -- 23. Global Evangelical Theology: Luke Theology and the Dialogue of the Deaf / Mark Shaw -- 24. The 1860 Liverpool Conference on Missions / Andrew F. Walls -- 25. Asia and Latin America: Taking the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth / Allen Yeh -- A Bibliography of the Works of Tite Tienou."Publisher Marketing: Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora. The essays span history, theology, anthropology, ecumenism, and missiology. Readers will be treated to fresh perspectives on African Pentecostal higher education, Pentecostalism and witchcraft in East Africa, Methodist camp meetings in Ghana, Ghanaian diaspora missions in Europe and North America, gender roles in South African Christian communities, HIV/AIDS ministries in Uganda, Japanese funerary rites, enculturation and contextualization principles of mission, and many other aspects of the Christian world mission. With essays from well-known scholars as well as young and emerging men and women in academia, Communities of Faith illuminates current realities of world Christianity and contributes to the scholarship of today's worldwide Christian witness. "The great assumption of this volume is that Africans, either residing on that great continent or in diaspora around the world, are now the vibrant new voices of a robust Christian faith which has finally left behind the swaddling clothes of Christendom and found the strength and vigor of its own voice. This volume is a masterful introduction to these new voices precisely because of its diversity. Here we find theological, contextual, anthropological, and missiological reflections . . . revealing how nuanced and textured the African contribution to world Christianity has already become. I can think of no greater tribute to Tite Tienou than these essays written by his students and friends." --Timothy C. Tennent, Asbury Theological Seminary "This brilliant volume of twenty-five essays on many aspects of global Christianity, with special attention to Africa and the African diaspora, is a worthy tribute to one of our most distinguished missiologists, Tite Tienou, whose career has spanned three continents." --Gerald H. Anderson, Overseas Ministries Study Center J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Paul Kwabena Boafo Elias K. Bongmba Casely B. Essamuah Paul Kollman David K. Ngaruiya Caleb O. Oladipo Steven D. H. Rasmussen Dana L. Robert Kenneth R. Ross Stephen Strauss Angela M. Wakhweya Emma Wild-Wood Miriam Adeney Stephen B. Bevans, SVD Jonathan J. Bonk William R. Burrows How Chuang Chua J. Nelson Jennings Robert J. Priest Cathy Ross Mark Shaw Andrew F. Walls Allen Yeh Casely B. Essamuah, ThD, is Global Missions Pastor at Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the author of Genuinely Ghanaian: A History of the Methodist Church, Ghana, 1961-2000 (2010). David K. Ngaruiya, PhD, is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Deputy Vice Chancellor: Finance, Administration, and Planning at the International Leadership University, Nairobi, Kenya. Contributor Bio:  Essamuah, Casely B Casely B. Essamuah, ThD, is Global Missions Pastor at Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the author of Genuinely Ghanaian: A History of the Methodist Church, Ghana, 1961-2000 (2010). David K. Ngaruiya, PhD, is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Deputy Vice Chancellor: Finance, Administration, and Planning at the International Leadership University, Nairobi, Kenya. Contributor Bio:  Ngaruiya, David K Casely B. Essamuah, ThD, is Global Missions Pastor at Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the author of Genuinely Ghanaian: A History of the Methodist Church, Ghana, 1961-2000 (2010). David K. Ngaruiya, PhD, is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Deputy Vice Chancellor: Finance, Administration, and Planning at the International Leadership University, Nairobi, Kenya. Contributor Bio:  Asamoah-Gyadu, J Kwabena Dela Quampah is a full-time pastor of the Church of Pentecost, the largest Pentecostal denomination in Ghana, as well as a lecturer in Christian Ethics at Pentecost Theological Seminary. He earned his bachelor's and doctorate degrees at the University of Ghana, Legon, and in between these two degrees, he studied at Regents Theology College, UK, for his masters in theology. Dela has also authored a book on the Beatitudes. Contributor Bio:  Bongmba, Elias K Elias K. Bongmba is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University.