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Title:Report on an interdisciplinary 'workshop on religious research'
Author:Daneel, M.L.
Year:1968
Periodical:Kroniek van Afrika
Issue:3
Pages:224-226
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:Christianity
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Abstract:The Workshop in Religious Research was held at the University College of Nairobi from December 28, 1967 to January 12, 1968. The papers submitted by participants covered subjects of the participants' choice, written from the standpoint of one of the major disciplines, as education, history, sociology, liturgy, missiology, methodology. This report gives information on the procedure of the conference and on the subjects presented and by whom. The A.'s own paper dealt with the kind of Syncretism found in the Ethiopian and Zionist type churches amongst the Shona in Rhodesia. Special attention is paid in this report to the most important conclusions and recommendations put forward the Workshop's four Working Committees for 1) history, 2) sociology, anthropology, psychology, theology, 4) missiology, ecclesiology. As a practical outcome of the Workshop the 'Association for Research on Religion in Africa' (A.R.R.A.) - P.O. Box 230, Nairobi - was set up.
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