A study of some Asian converts to christianity in Kenya With particular reference to their response to christian evangelistic efforts: a case study of those residing in Nairobi
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1997Author
Moywaywa, Charles K
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This study set out to establish the extent to which Christian evangelisation has influenced the
Asian community in Kenya. The Asian community has for long remained largely unpenetrated
by Christian evangelisation, not only in Kenya but also throughout the world where there is an
Asian community. In Kenya most of the evangelistic efforts are concentrated on the indigenous
Afiican communities, most of whom already practise some form of Christianity. It was felt that
there is need to find out why the Asians in Kenya have not been evangelised to the same
extent as the indigenous Kenyans.
The study had four objectives, which are:
(1) To find out the extent to which the Asian immigrants in Kenya have responded to
Christian evangelisation.
(2) To find out the extent to which the Asian converts have been integrated into the larger
Kenyan christian community.
(3) To determine- the methods used in Christian evangelisation, especially among the Asian
immigrants in Kenya.
(4) To determine the views of the Asian converts on the evangelisation of Asians in Kenya.The study had four hypotheses. It was assumed that the poor response among the Asians in
Kenya can be explained by various factors which were broadly categorised as socio-political,
economic and religio-cultural factors; that the Asian converts to Christianity in Kenya have not
been integrated into the larger Kenyan Christian community, that the methods used in Christian
evangelisation in Kenya are not appropriate to the Asian immigrants and that the converts have
various views which can be utilized to make Christian evangelisation more appealing to the
Asian non-Christians.
The methods this study applied in the collection of data included literary research whereby
books and journals relevant to this study were reviewed in depth. This formed the secondary
data. Other methods included interviews, whereby informants were given an opportunity to
express their views freely, the questionnaire method and participant observation method. All
these methods assisted in the collection of the desired information which formed the primary
data.
After a critical appraisal of the data collected, the stufly confirmed that the Asian community
still remains largely.unpenetrated by Christian evangelisarion. In total only about 0.2% of the
Asian immigrants in Kenya have converted to Christianity from the different Asian religions in
Kenya.
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University of NairobiPublisher
Department of religious studies