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Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this volume analyses the phenomenon of deliverance - which is promoted both in charismatic churches and in Islam as a weapon against witchcraft - in order to clarify the political dimensions of spiritual warfare in contemporary African societies.Deliverance from evil is part and parcel of the contemporary discourse on the struggle against witchcraft in most African contexts. However, contributors show how its importance extends beyond this, highlighting a pluralism of approaches to deliverance in geographically distant religious movements, which coexist in Africa. Against this background, the book reflects on the responsibilities of Pentecostal deliverance politics within the condition of 'epistemic anxiety' of contemporary African societies - to shed light on complex relational dimensions in which individual deliverance is part of a wider social and spiritual struggle.Spanning across the study of religion, healing and politics, this book contributes to ongoing debates about witchcraft and deliverance in Africa.

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This book traces the development of the Scottish Presbyterian mission from 1824 until the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa in 1923 as the first South African outcome of the three-self movement. It considers the development of this autonomous church, supported by the Free Church of Scotland until 1929, and the Church of Scotland thereafter in the light of its ongoing missionary purpose until its union with the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa in 1999. Drawing from archival sources, Graham A. Duncan documents the history of South African Christianity in the context of racial segregation and apartheid. The book foregrounds the distinguished history of Scottish Presbyterianism in South Africa. It also presents a significant part of the church history of Scotland, beyond its borders, highlighting the important role played by indigenous Christians in the growth of global Christianity.

Presbyterian Church --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. --- Missions --- History. --- Christian sects --- Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa. --- Free Church of Scotland Mission. --- Free Church of Scotland

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With few exceptions, the field of Eastern Christian studies has primarily been concerned with historical-critical analysis, hermeneutics, and sociology. For the most part it has not attempted to bring Eastern Christian philosophy into serious engagement with contemporary thought. This volume seeks to redress the matter by bringing the Eastern Christian tradition into a meaningful dialogue with contemporary philosophy. It boasts a diverse group of scholars—specialists in ancient philosophy, analytic philosophy, and continental philosophy—who engage with a wide range of pressing issues. Among other things, it addresses such topics as contemporary atheism, the metaphysics of action, religious epistemology, the philosophy of language, bioethics, the philosophy of race, and human rights. In so doing, it aims to introduce contemporary readers to unique perspectives and novel arguments often overlooked by mainstream anglophone philosophy. .

Christian philosophy. --- Eastern churches. --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Analysis, Linguistic (Philosophy) --- Analysis, Logical --- Analysis, Philosophical --- Analytic philosophy --- Analytical philosophy --- Linguistic analysis (Philosophy) --- Logical analysis --- Philosophical analysis --- Philosophy, Analytical --- Language and languages --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Logical positivism --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Christian sects --- Philosophy, Christian --- Religion --- Theology. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Christian Theology. --- History of Philosophy. --- Christian Philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Christian theology --- Theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity

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The Society of Oriental Liturgy (SOL) is an international academic society dedicated to the scholarly study of the various Eastern Christian liturgical traditions and related fields in all its aspects and phases, including allied disciplines, and its multiple methodologies. This volume brings together a selection of contributions from society members that germinated from papers delivered at the SOL congress gathered in Etchmiadzin, Armenia in September 2016. The chapters reveal new and original research on a variety of topics pertaining to Eastern liturgical rites, including, inter alia, methodological reflections on the field of liturgiology, analysis of unedited Syriac and Ge'ez liturgical texts, investigations on the development of the liturgical calendar in late antiquity, a study of medieval Byzantine hymnography, and a discussion of liturgical renewal for the Armenian Apostolic Church. These and the many other original topics explored herein show the dynamism that characterizes the study of Eastern liturgy today while also calling attention to the many questions that have yet to be explored.

Eastern churches --- Oriental Orthodox churches --- 264.01 --- 264.01 Liturgie van het Oosterse christendom --- Liturgie van het Oosterse christendom --- Ancient Oriental churches --- Ante-Chalcedonian Orthodox churches --- Lesser Eastern Orthodox churches --- Orthodox Oriental churches --- Pre-Chalcedonian Orthodox churches --- Monophysites --- Christian sects --- Liturgy

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Dès sa prise de pouvoir, Louis XIV cible les protestants et organise leur invisibilité par le biais de la loi et de son interprétation par les juges. La révocation de l'édit de Nantes (1685) parachève ce processus. Plus de culte public, les derniers temples sont détruits, les pasteurs pourchassés, l'état-civil protestant, dont le mariage, doit disparaître, remplacé par les cérémonies catholiques. Malgré tout, pendant le siècle qui mène à la Révolution, les protestants pratiquent une forme de désobéissance civile qui leur vaut peines de galères, d'enfermement, d'amendes collectives et, parfois, d'exécutions. A partir de 1760, des avocats, des juristes et des intellectuels s'engagent à leur côté et transforment un droit d'oppression en droit de reconnaissance. Leur combat en faveur des familles Calas et Sirven, et pour la reconnaissance des mariages protestants marque l'histoire de France. Avec eux, Voltaire mène de grandes batailles contre le fanatisme et pour la tolérance. Jack Thomas analyse cette histoire vue du Languedoc et du ressort du parlement de Toulouse, où vivaient de nombreux protestants. Il esquisse une riche galerie de portraits d'hommes et de femmes pris dans l'étau d'une justice longtemps partiale et de leurs défenseurs qui dénoncent son intolérance.

Protestants --- Justice, Administration of --- France --- Church history --- Huguenots --- 27 <44 LANGUEDOC> --- 284 <44> --- 27 <44 LANGUEDOC> Histoire de l'Eglise--Frankrijk--LANGUEDOC --- 27 <44 LANGUEDOC> Kerkgeschiedenis--Frankrijk--LANGUEDOC --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Frankrijk--LANGUEDOC --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Frankrijk--LANGUEDOC --- Christians --- Huguenots in France --- Christian sects --- 284 <44> Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten--Frankrijk --- 284 <44> Protestantisme. Sectes protestantes--Frankrijk --- Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten--Frankrijk --- Protestantisme. Sectes protestantes--Frankrijk --- Legal status, laws, etc --- History --- Persecutions --- Justice --- Histoire religieuse --- Administration