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This comprehensive volume gathers the work of 50 scholars, specialists, and practitioners to provide a cross-disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today. Here, these experts engage the most pressing and pertinent issues, data, themes, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism.
Handbook of African Catholicism is arranged in five sections: History and Mission; Formation, Education, and Communications; Church and Society; The Body, Health, and Healing; and Catholic Theological and Philosophical Traditions in Africa. Among the topics covered are African liturgical inculturation; the global context of African Catholicism; the growth of small Christian communities; encounters between African Catholicism and Islam; Catholic sexual morality and social ethics in Africa; and many more.
With its wealth of insights into the development of African Christianity and the methodological approaches being employed in understanding the Christian movement as it crosses different cultural, religious, and social frontiers across the continent, Handbook of African Catholicism will be a vital reference and resource for years to come.
Stan Chu Ilo is research professor of world Christianity and African Studies at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University, Chicago. He is editor of the African Christian Studies Series and author of A Poor and Merciful Church.
