Missionary Practice and Cultural Sensitivity: Exploring African Catholic Missionaries’ Encounter with African Indigenous Religions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Early Western missionaries to Africa have been criticised for lacking cultural sensitivity to African indigenous religion(s) (AIR). This interpretive phenomenological study examines how the presence of Indigenous African Catholic missionaries in modern sub-Saharan Africa may have shifted the narrat...
| Published in: | Diligentia: Journal of Theology and Christian Education |
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| Main Author: | Chanda Armstrong |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Pelita Harapan
2025-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.uph.edu/index.php/DIL/article/view/10239 |
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