Temu, Aloys Highlife (2003) Spirituality and Sickness: A Tanzanian Christian Experience. PhD thesis, Catholic Theological Union at Chicago.
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Abstract
As a Tanzanian Christian and a Catholic priest, part of my experience has been ministering and living with people influenced by African Traditional Religion (ATR). Before the coming of Christian Missionaries in the mid-18th century, the Africans had their own religion. Depending on how much they valued their former religion, some have kept it even after embracing Christianity and others have rejected Christianity outright. The Christian missionaries encounter with the adherents of ATR was with mixed views. Lukas Malishi, a Catholic priest and a Church historian, writes: Some few missionaries of the last and early part of this century set out to destroy the culture of the people to be evangelized; many tampered with it and some adopted a negative attitude. When there was no open-minded attempt at objective investigation or observation, it led occasionally to bitter controversies between the missionaries and the Africans. Nevertheless, ATR has prevailed and it still influences the lives of many Tanzanians. On the distribution of religion in Tanzania as of 1996, Kilaini estimated that 34% were Christians, 32% Moslems and the rest adherents of ATR, with the exception of a few Hindus and Buddhists. The indigenous people who join Christianity or Islam after the age of reason are converts from ATR. The statistics do not suggest clear boundaries between the ways of life of adherents of ATR and that of other religions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | experience of caring in bmc, the meaning and care of the sick and suffering in atr, the meaning and care of the sick and suffering in catholic church tradition, atr and catholic church tradition withthe experience of caring for the sickand suffering in dialogue, pastoral response, |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion |
| Divisions: | Afro-Christiana |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2014 10:45 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2018 12:58 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/54 |
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