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Nidan: International Journal for the Study of Hinduism


IAHR 20th Quinquennial World Congress, Toronto, Canada, 15-21 August 2010


International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, & Culture: Newsletter 0, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3; elections


Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity


AIDS in Africa (book announcement)


Bayreuth International School of African Studies has been rated as Excellent by DFG


Book announcement: Deidre Helen Crumbley 2008. Spirit, Structure and Flesh: Gendered Experiences in African Initiated Churches among the Yoruba. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.


IAHR Women Scholars Network


Society for Theory of Religion and Theology


Society for Theory of Religion and Theology: Membership Form


'Bridging the North Sub-Saharan Divide'; Seminar by Rawia Tawfik (Cairo University) and Issaka Souare, Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria; Africa Institute of South Africa, 25 February 2010, 9-12 a.m., at Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa


Summer School 'Digital Religion: Research in Virtual 3D Environments?', July 30 - August 9, 2010, Bremen, Germany. Deadline for application: 15 May 2010. Number of participants: 20.


Ezigbo, Victor Ifeany, 2010, Re-imagining African Christologies: Conversing with the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus in Contemporary African Christianity. Eugene [OR]: Pickwick Publications/Wipf and Stock Publishers, 356 pp., ISBN 13: 978-1-60608-822-7 pbk), $39.00 (= Princeton Theological Monograph Series)
"Who do you say that I am" (Mark 8:29) is the question of Christology. By asking this question, Jesus invites his followers to interpret him from within their own contexts-history, experience, and social location. Therefore, all responses to Jesus's invitation are contextual. But for too long, many theologians particularly in the West have continued to see Christology as a universal endeavor that is devoid of any contextual influences. This understanding of Christology undermines Jesus's expectations from us to imagine and appropriate him from within our own contexts. In Re-imagining African Christologies, Victor I. Ezigbo presents a constructive exposition of the unique ways that many African theologians and lay Christians from various church denominations have interpreted and appropriated Jesus Christ in their own contexts. He also articulates the constructive contributions that these African Christologies can make to the development of Christological discourse in non-African Christian communities.


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