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- Title
On Religious Synthesis in 16<sup>th</sup>-18<sup>th</sup> Afro-Kongolese Christianity.
- Authors
Ilunga, Christian Mukadi
- Abstract
To discuss religious synthesis or religious syncretism in Africa, we must first explain what we mean by the terms 'Africa,' 'religion,' and 'synthesis,' and then go on to apply the combined expression--'religious synthesis'--to the specific milieu that is Africa. These two steps will enable us to comprehend religious synthesis in Africa not as a nebulous or hazy conception, but as a process that incorporates a specific belief into African languages, rituals, and cosmogonies. This essay focuses on the Christian Kongo Kingdom, which covered a period extending from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Through utilizing a historical and critical approach and drawing on John K. Thornton and John Baur, I shall try to understand Afro-Kongolese Christianity during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as a typical case of religious synthesis in Christianity within the domain of Africa.
- Subjects
CHRISTIANITY; THORNTON, John K. (John Kelly), 1949-
- Publication
Japan Mission Journal, 2021, Vol 75, Issue 4, p242
- ISSN
1344-7297
- Publication type
Article