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Exploring Religious and Global Identity in Africa
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Humanities
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to be an introduction to African Studies within a global context. As a result, it will cover the growth of African intellectual culture, which emerged in the 1980s, and both evolved and developed the continent. In the course, you will explore how Africans have grappled with both their religious and cultural identity. It will consist of three core modules:
1. African Indigenous Theology; this module will highlight the development of indigenous theology in Africa, which was formed as a response to God in African indigenous religion. The content will focus on the primal African world-view, as well as the philosophical and theological methods employed by the African indigenous people. Theological themes will revolve around the concepts of God, spirits, and African spiritual cosmology.
2. African Christian Theology; the content of this module will deal with the rise of African indigenous churches and the contextualisation project. The main topic of study will be the religious practices of African Pentecostal prophets and founders.
3. African Pentecostalism. This last unit will focus on the transnationalism of Africanism. Both through the 'Africanisation' of Pentecostalism, and the migration of Africans. It will also explore the effect of global flows and Pentecostalism?s appropriation of global commodities.
This course aims to explore African religion, philosophy and culture, and how it has assimilated or resisted the rise of an increasingly globalised world. It will provide a different perspective of Africa, one which defies the negative stereotype that has defined the continent's past.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course. CEA's recommended credits are based on the contact hours assigned by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam): 15 contact hours equals 1 U.S. credit
1. African Indigenous Theology; this module will highlight the development of indigenous theology in Africa, which was formed as a response to God in African indigenous religion. The content will focus on the primal African world-view, as well as the philosophical and theological methods employed by the African indigenous people. Theological themes will revolve around the concepts of God, spirits, and African spiritual cosmology.
2. African Christian Theology; the content of this module will deal with the rise of African indigenous churches and the contextualisation project. The main topic of study will be the religious practices of African Pentecostal prophets and founders.
3. African Pentecostalism. This last unit will focus on the transnationalism of Africanism. Both through the 'Africanisation' of Pentecostalism, and the migration of Africans. It will also explore the effect of global flows and Pentecostalism?s appropriation of global commodities.
This course aims to explore African religion, philosophy and culture, and how it has assimilated or resisted the rise of an increasingly globalised world. It will provide a different perspective of Africa, one which defies the negative stereotype that has defined the continent's past.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course. CEA's recommended credits are based on the contact hours assigned by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam): 15 contact hours equals 1 U.S. credit
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