The book offers a critical-trans-contextual analysis from theological and philosophical perspectives. It constructs the poetics of mysticality and materiasticity (materiality and plasticity) as a postindigenous turn in philosophy and theological inquiry for advancing an African Pentecostal discourse of new (post)humanity in Christ which resonates with planetary turn and emerging cultural and religious materialisms. This approach is significant as African Pentecostalism is increasingly becoming life zones for reinterpretations and remediation of African cultural ideas of Muntu as a metaphor for planetarizing the Christian idea of the new humanity in Christ. The book engages some of the major themes, approaches, and contemporary issues that dominate debate grounded on the history of metaphorical death within Western intellectual traditions, the fundamental meaning of the Bemba ritual epistemology with its divine liminality, critiques the postcolonial notions of Muntu, and reclaims rituality to expand the account of kenotic incarnation as the condition of all creation for flourishing-becoming. Therefore, the book charts a new path on engaging the model of kenotic incarnate Christ from ritual epistemology not only as a template of new creation and new (post)humanity but a paradigmatic reality for flourishing becoming of all things.

Chammah J. Kaunda obtained a PhD in African theology and Christianity from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He is currently Assistant Professor of World Christianity and Mission Studies at the United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, Korean Republic. He is also Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His current research interests focus on Afri-Pentecostalisticity in its critical engagement with decoloniality, poetics of mysticality and materiality, and the intellectual history of African theological ideas. Kaunda draws on various theoretical approaches including critical Africana theories, African philosophy and theology, decolonial theology, black liberation theology, missiology, ecumenism anthropology, and political, gender, and ecological theologies. He has authored over 100 (and counting) peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters for internationally renowned journals and book publishers. He also co-edited over six volumes, authored one book, and co-authored one book. He has been a guest editor for various academic journals. In 2018 he was recognized in the list of the top 10 most published researchers under 40 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.