Domesticating a Religious Import : The Jesuits and the Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980 / Nicholas M. Creary.
Creary, Nicholas M., author.
2022
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Title Domesticating a Religious Import : The Jesuits and the Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980 / Nicholas M. Creary.
Author Creary, Nicholas M., author.
ISBN 9780823291427
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291427
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (280 p.) : 24 Illustrations, black and white
Item Number 10.1515/9780823291427 doi
Summary Catholic theologians have developed the relatively new term "inculturation" to discuss the old problem of adapting the church universal to specific local cultures. Europeans needed a thousand years to inculturate Christianity from its Judaic roots. Africans' efforts to make the church their own followed a similar process but in less than a century. Until now, there has been no book-length examination of the Catholic church's pastoral mission in Zimbabwe or of African Christians' efforts to inculturate the church. Ranging over the century after Jesuit missionaries first settled in what is now Zimbabwe, this enlightening book reveals two simultaneous and intersecting processes: the Africanization of the Catholic Church by African Christians and the discourse of inculturation promulgated by the Church. With great attention to detail, it places the history of African Christianity within the broader context of the history of religion in Africa. This illuminating work will contribute to current debates about the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe and throughout Africa.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Failed Mission, Contesting Colonial Rule, and Ecclesiastical Developments
2. ''The Struggle Approximated to the Heroic'': African Catholic Women Becoming Nuns in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1922-1965
3. ''The Most Important Work on the Mission'': The Seminary of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, 1919-1979
4. A ''Do-Nothing'' Organization? The Catholic Association, 1934-1974
5. Until Death Do Us Part? African Marriage Practices and the Catholic Church, 1890-1979
6. ''Thou Shalt Not Take My Name in Vain'': The Mwari Controversy, 1911-1961
7. Bread and Wine, Beer and Meat: The Kurova Guva Controversy
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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