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Conference: African Lived Christianity – Faith, Ritual and Power

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When 2016-03-16 09:45 to
2016-03-18 09:45
Where Lund University
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Information about an upcoming conference on African Christianity in Lund University in March 2016.

The thematic focus of this conference is on the lived experiences of African Christianity, on how religion and religious experience are part of the understanding and explanation of social reality in Africa. By taking this thematic focus, we wish to overcome the dividing lines in the study of African Christianity between theology and the social sciences. We seek to engage with an emerging literature that combines the analysis of religious experience and faith with an analysis of how African Christianity feeds into constellations of power hierarchies and social relationships of dependency, reciprocity and mutuality. One of the aims is to build interpretative bridges between African enchanted worldviews and Western academic interpretations and to add to an emerging dialogue between anthropology and theology.

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Contributed by:

Hans Olsson

Malmö, Sweden
Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen
last modified 2015-12-09 02:49