After the pope ended his Africa swing on Monday, my wife and I remained in Cameroon for most of this week, pondering the impact of the trip and taking stock of the African church. The experience ...

Recently a friend told me about an experience he and his wife had as students at a flagship evangelical seminary in the early 1980s. “The black church,” one of their professors explained, “is not ...

Boston College theology professor M. Shawn Copeland. (Credit: Boston College.) Listen ROME — The women of Africa need to claim their space in the field of theology. This was one of the conclusions as ...

Theologian Kwame Bediako, who died in 2008, explored the intersections of identity, culture, and gospel by challenging long-standing assumptions about how to write theology. He modeled an African ...

On Nov. 1, Pope Francis gave a new mandate to the Pontifical Academy of Theology to "develop" the theological discipline to embody "a culture of dialogue and encounter between different traditions and ...

Africa’s theological landscape is changing significantly and rapidly. The pace and scope of this transformation came into focus at the first regional conference of the global network of Catholic ...

“Resurrection,” by Engelbert Mveng, S.J., in the Jesuit chapel at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya. (Courtesy of author) Upon the death of the Rev. Bénézet Bujo last week in Switzerland, the ...

Journal of Africana Religions, Vol. 7, No. 2, Special Issue: James. H. Cone and Black Theology in Africana Perspective (2019), pp. 255-272 (18 pages) https://doi.org ...

The multidisciplinary work of new faculty members Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones and Kyrah Malika Daniels has brought to Boston College a unique expertise on religion and the African Diaspora. Their ...

The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. It is interested in all religious traditions and ...

Let me start with a declaration from start: I am a Pentecostal Christian who has often been curious about the trajectory of both mainstream Christianity (be it evangelical or Pentecostal) and African ...