Home Institution
Macalester College
Publication Date
Spring 2019
Abstract
Down a small side street in the heart of Yaoundé, Cameroon, St. Joseph’s Anglophone Parish houses worshippers from the Northwest and Southwest regions of the country. Its members bring their cultural traditions to the church in the process of enculturation, and mass is filled with clergy-sanctioned elements of traditional culture, but beyond its walls, people still carry out the traditional practices that are deemed as “non-Christian” by the Church. This study seeks to examine the ways that traditional culture manifests itself both inside and outside St. Joseph’s Anglophone Parish, exploring the ways in which tradition is translated in the church and reframed outside of it in order blend tradition and religion, make them compatible, and preserve culture in the face of modernity.
Au bout d’une petite rue au coeur de Yaoundé, au Cameroun, la paroisse anglophone St. Joseph’s accueille des fidèles du nord-ouest et du sud-ouest du pays. Ses membres apportent leurs traditions culturelles à l'église en train de s'enculturer, et la masse est remplie d'éléments de la culture anglophone sanctionnés par le clergé, mais au-delà de ses murs, les gens continuent à pratiquer les pratiques traditionnelles qui sont considérées comme «non chrétiennes». l'église. Cette étude cherche à examiner la manière dont la culture traditionnelle se manifeste à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la paroisse St. Joseph, en explorant la manière dont la tradition est traduite dans l'église et recadrée en dehors de celle-ci afin de mêler tradition et religion, de les rendre compatibles et préserver la culture anglophone face à la modernité.
Disciplines
African Languages and Societies | African Studies | Christianity | Other Religion | Religion | Sociology of Religion
Recommended Citation
Kaminski, Kayleigh, ""It Is Our Own Thing": The Expression of and Limits to Enculturation at St. Joseph's Anglophone Parish" (2019). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 3010.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/3010
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African Languages and Societies Commons, African Studies Commons, Christianity Commons, Other Religion Commons, Sociology of Religion Commons
Program Name
Cameroon: Development and Social Change