Inculturation and Postcolonial Discourse in African Theology: v. 14 (Society & Politics in Africa) - Tapa dura

What is inculturation? How is it practiced and what is its relationship to colonial and postcolonial discourses? In what ways, if any, does inculturation represent the decolonization of Christianity in Africa? This book explores these questions and argues that inculturation is a species of postcolonial discourse by placing it in the larger context of what has now come to be known as Africanism and by showing how the latter - and through it inculturation itself - fully participates in the history of postcolonial struggles for indigenous self-definition in Africa. The thirteen contributors to this volume represent a group of young scholars from the southern, eastern, and western regions of Africa. They come from different disciplines: theology, philosophy, and biblical studies. Although they take different approaches to the question of inculturation, the fact that they engage it at all is illustrative of the methodological significance of inculturation in African theology.

The Editor: Edward P. Antonio is Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory at The Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in theology from Cambridge University in England. Antonio has published several articles on various topics such as Black and African theologies, ecology in African traditional thought, homosexuality in Africa, and the problem of proselytization in Southern Africa.