Cultural Diversity and Its Challenges to Evangelization in Cameroon: A Multidisciplinary Approach with Pastoral Focus of a Church in a Multicultural A

ISBN-13: 9783631643747 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 235 str.

Augustine N. Nkwain

Opis

Living in a multicultural society offers many advantages but also poses many challenges not only in the political but also in the religious, social domains. With Cameroon as a point of departure, the author examines the advantages and challenges that accrue from living in a multicultural African society, both for the society and for the Catholic Church, and offers refreshing reflections, suggestions and methods for facilitating interaction and functioning in a multicultural society. Drawing inspiration from theological and human sciences the author delves into ways of working and evangelizing in a Multicultural African Context. Ruth Cohn s Theme-Centred Interaction is a leitmotiv in the search for a method that can facilitate interaction in a multicultural society. Its introduction and application to the Cameroonian context is a genuine contribution to the blending of Western and traditional values that determine political, social, cultural and religious interaction in most African societies."

Spis treści

Contents: Multicultural - Language - Evangelization - Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue - Authentic African Ecclesiology - European and African Cultural Values - Cultural Distance - Search for Identity - Conflict between Civil Authorities and Traditional Rulers - Cultural Relations in the Old Testament - The Early Church and Cultural Diversity - The Essentials of Theme-Centred Interaction - Theme-Centred Interaction and Intercultural Relations - Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue.

O autorze

Augustine N. Nkwain, born in Njinikom, hails from Fundong Sub-division in the Boyo Division (Cameroon). He is a priest of the Archdiocese of Bamenda. He studied Philosophy and Theology in St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary in Bambui (Cameroon), and obtained a Licentiate in 2010 and a Doctorate Degree in Sacred Theology in 2013 from the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).