Gender And African Indigenous Religions

Author : Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003854852

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Gender and African Indigenous Religions by Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah Pdf

Focusing on the work of contemporary African women researchers, this volume explores feminist perspectives in relation to African Indigenous Religions (AIR). It evaluates what the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’ research has achieved and proposed since its launch in 1989, their contribution to the world of knowledge and liberation, and the potential application to nurturing a justice-oriented world. The book considers the methodologies used amongst the Circle to study African Indigenous Religions, the AIR sources of knowledge that are drawn on, and the way in which women are characterized. It reflects on how ideas drawn from African Indigenous Religions might address issues of patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, racism, tribalism, and sexual and disability-based discrimination. The chapters examine theologies of specific figures. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, gender studies, Indigenous studies, and African studies.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317184201

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African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa by Ezra Chitando Pdf

The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. The book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Religions; Indigenous Thought and Spirituality; and Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa. This book is to his honour and marks his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.

Author : Dr Afe Adogame,Dr Bolaji Bateye,Professor Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409481782

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African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa by Dr Afe Adogame,Dr Bolaji Bateye,Professor Ezra Chitando Pdf

The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. The book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Religions; Indigenous Thought and Spirituality; and Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa. This book is to his honour and marks his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317184188

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African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies by Ezra Chitando Pdf

The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies. The book is structured under two main sections. The first provides insights into the interface between Religion and Society. The second features African Diaspora together with Youth and Gender which have not yet featured prominently in studies on religion in Africa. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa and the new African Diaspora. This book honours his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Sophia Chirongoma,Kudzai Biri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666903324

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Women and Religion in Zimbabwe by Ezra Chitando,Sophia Chirongoma,Kudzai Biri Pdf

The chapters in this volume foreground the ambivalent role of religion and culture when it comes to African women’s health and well-being. Reflecting on the three major religions in Africa, i.e. African Indigenous Religions, Christianity, and Islam, the authors illustrate how religious beliefs and practices can either enhance or hinder women’s holistic progress and development. With a specific focus on Zimbabwean women’s experiences of religion and culture, the volume discusses how African Indigenous Religions, Christianity, and Islam tend to privilege men and understate the value of women in Africa. Adopting diverse theological, ideological, and political positions, contributors to this volume restate the fact that the key teachings of different religions, often suppressed due to patriarchal influences, are a potent resource in the quest for gender justice. In sync with the goals for gender justice and women empowerment envisioned in the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and Africa Agenda 2063, the contributors advocate for gender-inclusive and life-enhancing interpretations of religious and cultural traditions in Africa.

Author : Nobuntu Penxa Matholeni,Georgina Kwanima Boateng,Molly Manyonganise
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928480730

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Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions by Nobuntu Penxa Matholeni,Georgina Kwanima Boateng,Molly Manyonganise Pdf

Africans embrace all of life, the humanity of each person, the world, and the creation of God. Consequently, African indigenous education reflects the completeness of life itself. The various chapters in this volume recount religious events and experiences from individual perspectives as they are unfolding on the continent. The different voices show how modernity, colonisation, urbanisation, Christianity, and technology have sidelined beliefs and practices of African traditional religions (ATRs) to the detriment of the environment. This volume brings together voices from leading proponents of ATRs and African religious heritage to help us appreciate how values are richly entrenched in African religious life. It demonstrates the detailed richness of ATRs and culture and showcases how far the academic study of ATRs in Africa has come, and calls for a concerted effort through partnership between various actors to ensure environmental sustainability.

Author : Molara Ogundipe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UOM:39015073945514

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Indigenous and Contemporary Gender Concepts and Issues in Africa by Molara Ogundipe Pdf

Author : Laura S. Grillo,Adriaan van Klinken,Hassan J. Ndzovu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351260701

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Religions in Contemporary Africa by Laura S. Grillo,Adriaan van Klinken,Hassan J. Ndzovu Pdf

Religions in Contemporary Africa is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the three main religious traditions on the African continent, African indigenous religions, Christianity and Islam. The book provides a historical overview of these important traditions and focuses on the roles they play in African societies today. It includes social, cultural and political case studies from across the continent on the following topical issues: Witchcraft and modernity Power and politics Conflict and peace Media and popular culture Development Human rights Illness and health Gender and sexuality With suggestions for further reading, discussion questions, illustrations and a list of glossary terms this is the ideal textbook for students in religion, African studies and adjacent fields approaching this subject area for the first time.

Author : H. Jurgens Hendriks,Elna Mouton,L. D Hansen,Elisabet Le Roux
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781920338770

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Men in the Pulpit, Women in the Pew? by H. Jurgens Hendriks,Elna Mouton,L. D Hansen,Elisabet Le Roux Pdf

Men in the pulpit, women in the pew? Addressing gender inequality in Africa is that rarest of gems ? a work that takes a fresh look at familiar biblical teachings, and cause us to question what we have been accepting as a matter of course for so long.

Author : Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003852421

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African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance by Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah Pdf

This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories. It considers the intersection of gender and spirituality in subverting patriarchy, colonialism, anthropocentricism, and capitalism as well as elevating African women to the social space of speaking as empowered subjects with public influence. The chapters examine historical, cultural, and religious African women legends who became champions of liberation and their approach to social justice. The authors suggest that their stories of resistance hold great potential for building justice-loving Earth Communities. This book will be of interest to scholars of religion, gender studies, indigenous studies, African studies, African-indigenous knowledges, postcolonial studies, among others.

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Theo Sundermeier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3894739371

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The Individual and Community in African Traditional Religions by Theo Sundermeier Pdf

" ""The writer has done a careful, scholarly and sensitive and very positive and fair study of African religion, with particular reference to the individual and community. Theo Sundermeier lets Africa speak for itself and on its own terms and in its own categories. The concluding chapter is a necessary reading for all who would be on mission, who would seek to live the ecumenical imperative and care to ensure that the pursuit of a religion does not result in dehumanization and degradation and marginalization of the other person."" Rev. Canon Prof. John S. Pobee, World Council of Churches, Geneva/Switzerland ""This book treats the subject of African religions in a creative and interesting way emphasizing that these religions are genuine, authentic expressions of religiosity on a par with other religions including the so-called world religions. The author provides an excellent account of the nature interdependence between individual, community, society and the natural order, an interdependence which these religions symbolize and express in ritual and belief. Likewise the essentially personal nature of power as conceived in African culture is thoughfully and interestingly analysed. There are many other thought provoking ideas and interpretations in this volume including the deconstruction of the commonly held notions of the distinction between witchcraft and magic. This is a most worthwhile contribution to the study of Africa's traditional religions and I am convinced all those with an interest in Africa who read it will gain much therefrom"". Professor Peter B Clarke, Professor of the History and Sociology of Religion in the University of London at King's College, and formerly Professor of African History at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Theo Sundermeier is Professor of the History of Religion and Missiology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. translated by Elaine Griffiths, Eleanor Jackson "

Author : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015019579641

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African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society by Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona Pdf

Author : Benjamin C. Ray
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028542210

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African Religions by Benjamin C. Ray Pdf

This book presents a portrait of African religious history framed in the religious themes common to the rest of the world. It looks at the traditional religions that provided the philosophical, religious, and ethical basis of African culture. Focusing primarily on traditional African religions and their related myths, rituals, authorities, ethics, and artwork, the book also includes substantial treatment on nationalism, African Islam and Christianity. For anyone who wants to gain an understanding of the relationship between African religion and culture.

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118255544

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions by Elias Kifon Bongmba Pdf

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa. Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continent Contributors are from a variety of fields, ensuring the volume offers multidisciplinary perspectives Explores methodological approaches to religion from anthropological, philosophical, and historical perspectives Provides insights into the historical developments in African religions, as well as contemporary issues such as the development of African-initiated churches, neo traditional religions, and Pentecostalism Discusses important topics at the intersection of culture and religion in Africa, including the arts, health, politics, globalization, gender relations, and the economy