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This review of pastoral and practical theologian Dr. Emmanuel Lartey’s 2013 Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology summarizes the book’s specific contribution to African pastoral and practical theology as well as to the broader fields of pastoral and practical theology. The reviewer outlines Lartey’s three movements of reversal, recovery, and transcendence intertwined in the active process of postcolonializing. She raises questions about developmental theories of postcolonial change and commends Lartey for locating postcolonializing in pastoral practice rather than developmental achievement.
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Sharp, M.A.M. A Review of Emmanuel Y. Lartey’s Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology. Pastoral Psychol 66, 143–145 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-016-0721-5
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