African Culture and Emergent Church Forms in Ghana

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" African Culture and Emergent Church Forms in Ghana "
Elom Dovlo

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1066685
Doc. No	:	LA110314
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1572543041172639‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Elom Dovlo
Title & Author	:	African Culture and Emergent Church Forms in Ghana [Article]\ Elom Dovlo
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2004
Volume/ Issue Number	:	33/1
Page No	:	28–53
Abstract	:	The author gives a review of the African Independent Churches, African Initiated Churches or Spiritual Churches, as he prefers to call them, in West Africa. He also pays attention to the relationship of these churches to the so-called mainline churches. He shows the charismatic renewal that took place in the Spiritual Churches. Furthermore Dovlo turns his eyes to the relationship between the Western mainline churches and the African mainline churches and he makes clear that between all these diff erent types of churches an intra-cultural dialogue is going on. So Dovlo concludes omit that in spite of all tensions between them all churches need each other to communicate the hope of a God who is coming. The author gives a review of the African Independent Churches, African Initiated Churches or Spiritual Churches, as he prefers to call them, in West Africa. He also pays attention to the relationship of these churches to the so-called mainline churches. He shows the charismatic renewal that took place in the Spiritual Churches. Furthermore Dovlo turns his eyes to the relationship between the Western mainline churches and the African mainline churches and he makes clear that between all these diff erent types of churches an intra-cultural dialogue is going on. So Dovlo concludes omit that in spite of all tensions between them all churches need each other to communicate the hope of a God who is coming.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1572543041172639‬