Fabien Eboussi Boulaga's fight against fetishism

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Title:	Fabien Eboussi Boulaga's fight against fetishism
Author:	Heijke, Jan
Year:	2001
Periodical:	Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context
Volume:	30
Issue:	4
Pages:	300-327
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Africa Cameroon
Subjects:	African theology religious conversion Christianity African Independent Churches
About person:	Fabien Eboussi Boulaga (1934-2018)
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1163/157254301X00200
Abstract:	Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, born in 1934 in Cameroon, was for about two decades a member of the Society of Jesus and a Catholic priest and theologian. He returned in c. 1980 to his native village in order to rethink Christianity. He wrote a large number of articles and several books. His second book, 'Christianisme sans fétiche: révélation et domination' (1981), presents a fundamental theology. It is a plea for the conversion of the Christian faith by Africans. This paper examines Eboussi's writings from the period 1977-1991, when his work is concerned with theological reflection, related to society. A major theme is the critique of the supervision of African Christianity by well-meaning European missionizing. Notes, ref.