Event Website

http://www.bates.edu/mt-david-summit.xml

Start Date

1-4-2011 1:45 PM

End Date

1-4-2011 3:00 PM

Description

African religion during the colonial era started to change when the European missionaries imposed their own traditions. In the words of one researcher, missionaries believed: "If you want to belong to Christ, you must speak and act like the white man." Many Africans have since fought for the "Africanization of the Christian message" with African Independent Churches (AIC) serving as one of the primary agents for pushing this ideal forward. An important desire among AICs is to affirm a Christ who identifies himself with the African. We demonstrate the measures taken to fulfill this desire by presenting aspects of one of these Christian movements, Kimbanguism, started by Simon Kimbangu in 1921 in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo).

 
Apr 1st, 1:45 PM Apr 1st, 3:00 PM

Our Country, Our Religion: The Africanization of Christianity

African religion during the colonial era started to change when the European missionaries imposed their own traditions. In the words of one researcher, missionaries believed: "If you want to belong to Christ, you must speak and act like the white man." Many Africans have since fought for the "Africanization of the Christian message" with African Independent Churches (AIC) serving as one of the primary agents for pushing this ideal forward. An important desire among AICs is to affirm a Christ who identifies himself with the African. We demonstrate the measures taken to fulfill this desire by presenting aspects of one of these Christian movements, Kimbanguism, started by Simon Kimbangu in 1921 in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo).

http://scarab.bates.edu/mt_david_summit/MDS2011/02Poster/22