African Women S Theology Gender Relations And Family Systems Theory

Author : Mpyana Fulgence Nyengele
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820467774

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African Women's Theology, Gender Relations, and Family Systems Theory by Mpyana Fulgence Nyengele Pdf

African women theologians have written extensively about problems in gender relations in African contexts, identifying oppressive elements and their effects on women's self-concept and status in the church, family, and society. This book provides much-needed pastoral theological attention and a response to the psychospiritual, relational, and sociocultural effects of gender injustice and marginalization of women. It critically examines concepts, methods, and principles of family systems theory, analyzes gender relations in African families and churches, and develops a theology of pastoral care (based on the Trinitarian concept of perichoresis) that offers pastoral guidelines for effective pastoral counseling with women and men, as well as recommendations for corrective and preventative care grounded in educational strategies. The paradigm of pastoral care that emerges attends both to women affected by gender injustice and to the sociocultural norms that cause distress and perpetuate gender oppression.

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793618030

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Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa by Chammah J. Kaunda Pdf

Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa argues that, in many African societies, ideas and practices of wellbeing and gender relations continue to be informed and shaped by religious epistemologies. The contributors affirm that for many Africans, it is through religio-spiritual frameworks that daily experiences, interactions, and gender relations are understood and interpreted. However, for many African women, religions have functioned as a double-edged-sword. Although they have contributed to the struggle against issues such as colonialism, gender justice, climate justice, and human rights, they have also endorsed and perpetuated sexism, heterosexism, homophobia, and the denial of human rights for a wide variety of people on the margins. The chapters within this collection demonstrate that most religions and religious formations in Africa have not yet positioned themselves as forces for wellbeing, gender justice, and security for African women and children. The contributors challenge simplistic and superficial readings and interpretations of religio-spirituality in Africa and call for deeper engagements of the interplay between Africa’s religio-spiritual realities and the wellbeing of women, particularly around issues of gender justice, reproductive health, and human rights.

Author : Simone Lindorfer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Abused women
ISBN : 9783825890384

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Sharing the Pain of the Bitter Hearts by Simone Lindorfer Pdf

This book reflects the fruitful dialogue between two regional contexts, including the encounter of different methodologies, namely the context of Latin American liberation psychology as inspired by liberation theology and specifically developed in El Salvador by the Jesuit Ignacio Martin-Baro, and the context of Eastern African women. The book evaluates in four case studies the contribution of liberation psychology in overcoming various forms of gender-related violence in Eastern Africa where the author has worked since 1998 as consultant in trauma work. The book encourages the critical reflection of current trauma psychology as well as the conceptualisation of a globally oriented practical theology.

Author : Maseno, Loreen ,Mombo, Esther,Muke, Nagaju ,Kahindo, Veronica
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863099763

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Queen of Sheba by Maseno, Loreen ,Mombo, Esther,Muke, Nagaju ,Kahindo, Veronica Pdf

Author : Andrew Eugene Barnes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031482700

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The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present by Andrew Eugene Barnes Pdf

Author : Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793642059

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Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu Pdf

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa.

Author : Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780268205256

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The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye by Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein Pdf

This illuminating study explores African theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye’s constructive initiative to include African women’s experiences and voices within Christian theological discourse. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, a renowned Ghanaian Methodist theologian, has worked for decades to address issues of poverty, women’s rights, and global unrest. She is one of the founders of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, a pan-African ecumenical organization that mentors the next generation of African women theologians to counter the dearth of academic theological literature written by African women. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Oduyoye’s life and work, providing a much-needed corrective to Eurocentric, colonial, and patriarchal theologies by centering the experiences of African women as a starting point from which theological reflection might begin. Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein’s study begins by narrating the story of Mercy Oduyoye’s life, focusing on her early years, which led to her eventual interest in women’s equality and African women’s theology. At the heart of the book is a close analysis of Oduyoye’s theological thought, exploring her unique approach to four issues: the doctrine of God, Christology, theological anthropology, and ecclesiology. Through the course of these examinations, Oredein shows how Oduyoye’s life story and theological output are intimately intertwined. Stories of gender formation, racial ideas, and cultural foundations teem throughout Oduyoye’s construction of a Christian theological story. Oduyoye shows that one’s theology does not leave particularity behind but rather becomes the locus in which the fullness of divinity might be known.

Author : Tapiwa N. Mucherera,Emmanuel Y. Lartey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498221894

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Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts by Tapiwa N. Mucherera,Emmanuel Y. Lartey Pdf

Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today. Drawing on biblical, theological, social scientific, and cultural contextual perspectives, these African Christians offer much needed insights to assist in the care and counseling of persons towards healing, health, and well-being.

Author : Felicity Kelcourse,K. Brynolf Lyon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498208956

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Transforming Wisdom by Felicity Kelcourse,K. Brynolf Lyon Pdf

Transforming Wisdom offers an extensive, multidisciplinary introduction to pastoral psychotherapy from some of the most respected practitioners in the field. With special attention to theological perspectives on the practice of psychotherapy, this collection of essays will be useful to students seeking an orientation to the art and science of pastoral psychotherapy as well as to seasoned professionals looking to refresh and renew their practice. As the subtitle, Pastoral Psychotherapy in Theological Perspective, suggests, this book is intended to represent the field of pastoral psychotherapy as a mental-health discipline that maintains intentional dialogue with its theological roots. Even as pastoral psychotherapy has developed from the ancient notion of the cure of souls to the current search for a psychology of happiness, therapists grounded in faith communities seek a practice that is respectful of all persons, mindful of the deep wisdom that emanates from the true self, or soul. While many contributors write from a psychoanalytic or psychodynamic perspective grounded in Christian theological idioms, diverse theoretical perspectives, including Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Buddhist Mindfulness, and Jungian understanding of individuation, are represented.

Author : Ibidun B. Daramola
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781643246253

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Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West by Ibidun B. Daramola Pdf

This is the first time an author has listened to pastors in Africa and compared her findings with pastoral counseling from a Western perspective. Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West presents a practical record of pastoral counseling in Africa. It accounts for the wide difference between pastoral counseling in Africa and the West considering that pastoral counselors in Africa received Western theological training. It presents a theological perspective of the pastoral counseling ministry in Africa and the West. It also presents both perspectives as professional partners in conversation with each other. “Thank God for providing trained experts like Dr. Daramola to enlighten His people. I have every confidence this publication is only the first installment. More GRACE to her elbows!” Emmanuel Oladipo Former International Secretary Scripture Union

Author : Edward Shizha,Ngoni Makuvaza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463009621

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Re-thinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century by Edward Shizha,Ngoni Makuvaza Pdf

What have postcolonial Sub-Saharan African countries achieved in their education policies and programmes? How far have they contributed to successful attainment of the targeted 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on education? What were the constraints and barriers for developing an education system that appeals to the needs of the sub-region? Re-thinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century: Post-Millennium Development Goals is an attempt to demonstrate that Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential and capability to provide solutions to challenges facing its desire and ability to provide sustainable education to its people. To that end, the contributors are academics with an African vision attempting to come up with African home-grown perspectives to fill the gap created by the lapse of the MDGs as the guiding vision and framework for educational provision in Africa and beyond. The book seeks to articulate and address African issues from an informed as well as objective African perspective. The book is also intended to provide insights to scholars who are interested in studying and understanding the nature of postcolonial education in the Sub-Saharan African region. Given the objectives and themes of this book, it is intended for academic scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, human rights scholars, curriculum developers, college and university academics, teachers, education policy makers, international organisations, and local and international non-governmental organisations that are interested in African education policies and programmes. “Rethinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century provides contemporary reflections from multiple perspectives and re-positions the issue of education at the forefront of the debates on African development.” – Lamine Diallo, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada “The book is a welcome addition to discourses and analyses on education in sub-Saharan Africa with reference to a postcolonial critique and the Millennium Development Goals framework on education in Africa.” – Michael Tonderai Kariwo, PhD, Instructor and Research Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada

Author : Linda Joelsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000930030

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Paul and Diversity by Linda Joelsson Pdf

This book investigates attitudes toward diversity as expressed in Paul’s letter to the Galatians and proposes a renewed understanding of the term σάρξ as used in this letter. Σάρξ (sarx) is usually translated as "flesh" and has often been perceived in theological studies as a complicated and highly polysemous term. It is also a word whose interpretations have had far-reaching social, political, and religious consequences throughout history. The author argues in this volume that for Paul the term σάρξ is commonly adopted with reference to the collective group, and in light of a sense of collective identity in particular. A key assertion is that Paul was and remained a Jew and also continued to be deeply concerned with the prospects for the peaceful co-existence of Jews and Gentiles in the assemblies of God. The chapters draw on perspectives from classical rhetoric, modern linguistics, and social systems theory in order to describe the communicative structure of the letter, the construct of collective identity as described within this setting, and the potential for resilience in this construct. Offering a more coherent reading of Galatians, the book contributes positively to current discussions in Pauline studies and will be of interest to scholars of biblical studies and theology. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 under Marie Skłodowska- Curie grant agreement 897430.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121649110

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004127319

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Pregnant Passion by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Pdf

This volume presents essays on biblical stories that explore the dynamics, intersection, and relatedness of gender, sexuality, and violence in the Bible, with themes spanning feasts and famines, betrayal and bloodshed, seduction and sensuality, power and politics, virtue and violence.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Sophia Chirongoma,Molly Manyonganise
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000730289

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Gendered Spaces, Religion and Migration in Zimbabwe by Ezra Chitando,Sophia Chirongoma,Molly Manyonganise Pdf

This book explores the intersections of gender, religion and migration within the context of post-independent Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on how gender disparities impact economic development. By demonstrating how these interconnections impact women’s and girls’ lived realities, the book addresses the need for gender equity, gender inclusion and gender mainstreaming in both religious and societal institutions. This book assesses the gender and migration nexus in Zimbabwe and examines the impact of religio-cultural ideologies on the status of women. In doing so, it assesses the transition of Zimbabwean women across spaces and provides insights into the practical strategies that can be utilised to improve their status both “at home” and “on the move.” Furthermore, chapters show how space continues to be genderised in ways that perpetuate structural inequality to challenge the exclusion of women from key social processes. Contributing to ongoing scholarly debates on gender in Africa, this book will be of interest to academics and students of Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, African Studies, Development Studies as well as advocators of human rights and gender activists.