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Theology in Africa is a free resource, offering hundreds of articles, research papers, bibliographies, conference papers and much more with the aim of furthering conversation about the very exciting third wave of Christianity in Africa. We hope to make this site the largest online data base on African theology, philosophy, and African Christianity. We hope that you will enjoy the rich materials here and recommend further materials to us. You can forward your written (published or unpublished) papers to us. We will review them and if they meet our standard of academic excellence, original thinking, and creativity we will upload them in our articles data base. This web resource was founded by Louis Krog in 2006. In the Fall of 2009 Stan Chu Ilo took over as publisher and editor. Stan Chu Ilo is an enthusiast for creative and transformative religious thinking informed by Africa’s deep religiosity. Stan Chu Ilo is also involved in ongoing inter-cultural and cross-cultural academic border-crossing with fellow Africans and non-Africans on how to advance Christian thoughts as the Christian faith crosses different cultural frontiers. He is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Education at St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto and has a number of titles to his name and several refereed articles and conference papers as well. He is also actively involved in charitable work with the Canadian Samaritans for Africa and the Engineers Without Borders-USA. Some of his published books include: The Face of Africa: Looking Beyond the Shadows (2008); co-editor, The Church as Salt and Light: Path to African Ecclesiology of Abundant Life (2011); The Church and African Development: Aid and Development from the Perspectives of Catholic Social Ethics (2011); Towards a Transformative African Theological Praxis of Hope: A Missional Historical Approach (forthcoming). His doctoral thesis is being reworked into a two volume work: (1) Cross-Cultural Currents in Sub-Saharan African Christianity: Methodological Questions; (2) Method in the Study of African Christianity: A Missional Cultural Hermeneutical Approach.
African Christian Studies Series.
The only thing harder to find than articles on African religions and Christian theology, are books which offer a transformative, creative, critical and constructive thinking on African social context using the categories of African religious (Christian and indigenous) traditions. This is mainly due to the fact that most publishers of books by African academics are working from the African continent. Many traditional publishers in the West are reluctant to publish books on Africa except those books that are apocalyptic about Africa and paint the continent as a dark continent. In order to meet this growing need for African reflections on African Christianity, Wipf and Stock publishers have recently introduced the African Christian Studies Series. This series which is being edited by Stan Chu Ilo, Philomena Njeri Mwaura, and Afe Adogame will publish six books every year in the areas of African Christianity, African theology, African philosophy, African Mission and Cultural Studies, and Social Justice and Ecological Ethics, as well as African Christian writings on the condition of African Women, Human Rights, and the role of Social Capitals in African Development. Authors that will be published in these areas must be at the cutting edge of scholarship and must have religiously informed and inter-disciplinary approaches to their writings using the categories of African thinking as well as Christian religious traditions appropriated through an African identity and consciousness. They must also have a doctorate and significant demonstrable research or publications credit in the area for which they are seeking a book deal. We recommend that you do not submit a complete manuscript, but an initial book query or proposal sent directly to Wipf and Stock publishers indicating that you wish the work to be considered under the African Christian Studies Series. As soon as your work is received, it will be sent to two of the three series editors for blind review. For more details about the submission of book proposal visit the following website: http://wipfandstock.com/resources/submitting_a_book_proposal.
Stan Chu Ilo, publisher
