Jim Harries

Broschiertes Buch

Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager

Beschreibung

Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager While sitting reflectively watching the smoke emerging from his wife's kitchen, this African villager recounts his thoughts and observations on just three days of village life. On Friday, his boss tries to deal with a fall in profit margins of the company he works for. Saturday's account explains some of the intrigues surrounding just another village funeral. Village Christianity becomes the focus of Sunday. Read this intriguing little diary, a close literal translation from an original in Dholuo (of western Kenya), to begin to acquire fascinating insights into contemporary village life as an African Christian man. This book is suitable to be used as a part of courses on missions, African Christianity and culture, development and intercultural communication at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Autor

From 1988 to date, missionary Jim Harries has perceived a gap between what outsiders suppose and the reality he observes in sub-Saharan Africa. He has moved from agricultural teaching, to development, to Bible teaching--often using African languages. Jim has forged deep relationships with indigenous African churches. He lives in an African village using his own stipend to rear local orphan children using their mother tongue. Jim has a PhD in theology from the University of Birmingham (UK) and has published widely.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Seitenzahl: 54
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 82g
• ISBN-13: 9781532677892
• ISBN-10: 1532677898
• Artikelnr.: 55782796