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Since the 1970s what can be described as a minor nonviolent revolution has been taking place in Germany. This revolution is faith based and has been occurring as a result of the tremendous upsurge in the numbers of Africans migrating to the country. This chapter explores this phenomenon and seeks to address what the implications of this migration are for Christian identity and ecumenical partnership in the German context.
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P. Reed-Anderson, Metropole, Menschen, Nahaufnahme. Afrikaner in Berlin (Berlin: Die Ausländerbeauftragte des Senats, 1997), p. 23. These numbers include only the officially registered, “tolerated” Africans.
For the Ruhr region, see the thorough researches by Claudia Währisch-Oblau, former representative of the UEM for foreign congregations: See Claudia Währisch-Oblau, “From Reverse Mission to Common Mission… We Hope,” International Review of Mission 354, (2000): 467–483.
Very helpful for a further understanding cf. Claudia Währisch-Oblau, The Missionary Self-Perception of Pentecostal/Charismatic Church Leaders from the Global South in Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
Harold W. Turner, Religious Innovation in Africa: Collected Essays on New Religious Movements (Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1979), p. 291.
In this context see also A. Adogame, “Betwixt Identity and Security: African Religious Movements and the Politics of Religious Networking in Europe,” Novo Religio 7, 2 (November 2003), pp. 24–41.
G. Ter Haar, “The African Diaspora in the Netherlands,” in P. B. Clarke (ed.), New Trends and Developments in African Religions (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 245–262.
Cf. B. Simon, From Migrants to Missionaries: Christians of African Origin in Germany (Frankfurt, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2010), pp. 39–50.
For a more in-depth description of the three phases, see B. Simon, “Christians of African Origin in the German Speaking Diaspora of Germany,” Exchange 31, 1 (2002): 23–35.
F. Wijsen, “Intercultural Theology and the Mission of the Church,” Exchange 30, 3 (2001): 218–228.
J. Matthey, “Mission und Macht—Damals und Heute,” Interkulturelle Theologie 4. (2009): 346–358.
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Simon, B. (2014). Identity and Ecumenical Partnership of Churches of African Origin in Germany. In: Smith, R.D., Ackah, W., Reddie, A.G. (eds) Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism. Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386380_10
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