Living Faiths In South Africa

Author : Martin Prozesky,John W. De Gruchy
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850652449

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Living Faiths in South Africa by Martin Prozesky,John W. De Gruchy Pdf

Written by scholars with a specialist knowledge of their fields, this volume explores the diversity of South Africa's faiths. It covers such subjects as African traditional religions, Christianity, Islam, the Jewish community and Hinduism, amongst others.

Author : David Chidester,Chirevo Kwenda,Robert Petty,Judy Tobler,Darrel Wratten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313032257

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African Traditional Religion in South Africa by David Chidester,Chirevo Kwenda,Robert Petty,Judy Tobler,Darrel Wratten Pdf

In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004412255

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Faith in African Lived Christianity by Anonim Pdf

Faith in African Lived Christianity – Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives offers a comprehensive, empirically rich and interdisciplinary approach to the study of faith in African Christianity. The book brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith and religious experiences shape the understanding of social life in Africa. The volume is a collection of chapters by prominent Africanist theologians, anthropologists and social scientists, who take people’s faith as their starting point and analyze it in a contextually sensitive way. It covers discussions of positionality in the study of African Christianity, interdisciplinary methods and approaches and a number of case studies on political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality.

Author : Philip Harrison
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0864865643

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South Africa's Top Sites by Philip Harrison Pdf

Spiritual travel is an area of growth as more and more people seek refuge from the materialism and superficiality of life in the post-modern world. Spiritual travel includes pilgrimage to sacred sites, religious retreats, or simply visits to places associated with the great religions of the world.

Author : Ignatius Swart,Amanda Gouws,Per Pettersson,Frouwien Bosman,Johannes Erasmus
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781920338688

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Welfare, Religion and Gender in Post-apartheid South Africa by Ignatius Swart,Amanda Gouws,Per Pettersson,Frouwien Bosman,Johannes Erasmus Pdf

The topic covered by this book is important (crucially so in post-apartheid South Africa) and the research is meticulous. This has resulted in an impressive collection of material concerning welfare, religion and gender in twenty-first century South Africa, which includes both theoretical reflections and an abundance of empirical data. - Professor Grace Davie (Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Exeter, UK)

Author : Stephen W. Martin
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761841113

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Faith Negotiating Loyalties by Stephen W. Martin Pdf

Faith Negotiating Loyalties draws readers into the world of Christian faith in South Africa and the question of loyalties in the new post-apartheid state. It carries out its investigation in two parts. Part one examines Christian faith and loyalty during the first nation-building exercise following the South African War, positioning the creation and contestation of three Christianities corresponding to three nationalisms, each of which imagined South Africa in a particular way, shaping faith accordingly. The idea of an undifferentiated South African Christianity gives way to contesting and contested Christianities, nationalism gives way to nationalisms, and faith emerges in tension with and in criticism of these loyalties. Part two discusses the American theologian H. Richard Niebuhr in South Africa. Three kinds of faith in his wittings are set forth: social faith, radial faith, and reconstructing faith. Contextualized within the South African story, Niebuhr's ideas suggest self and society as constituted by hybridities and suspended in a web of loyalties. Faith Negotiating Loyalties suggests the message for faith in a post-apartheid South Africa is the importance of negotiating covenants which allow for crossings, hybridities, and contestations.

Author : Abdulkader Tayob,Wolfram Weisse
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 383095719X

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Religion and Politics in South Africa by Abdulkader Tayob,Wolfram Weisse Pdf

Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781478628927

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Introduction to African Religion by John S. Mbiti Pdf

In his widely acclaimed survey, John Mbiti sheds light on the survival and prosperity of African Religion in different historical, geographical, sociological, cultural, and physical environments. He presents a constellation of African worldviews, beliefs in God, use of symbols, valued traditions, and practices that have taken root with African peoples throughout the vast continent. Mbiti’s accessible writing style sympathetically portrays how African Religion manifests itself in ritual, festival, healing, the human life cycle, and interplay with the mystical and invisible world. The account embraces foundational traditions, while touching on elements that spawn transitions, including migration, the spread of Christianity and Islam, political-economic development, and modern communication. This popular introduction leaves readers with informed knowledge of the riches of African heritage.

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 55,6 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

Author : Tope Omoniyi,Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227102

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Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion by Tope Omoniyi,Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

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Author : Daisy L. Machado,Bryan S. Turner,Trygve Eiliv Wyller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351056922

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Borderland Religion by Daisy L. Machado,Bryan S. Turner,Trygve Eiliv Wyller Pdf

Borderland Religion narrates, presents and interprets the fascinating and significant practices when borders, migrants and religion intersect. This collection of original essays combines theology, philosophy and sociology to examine diverse religious issues surrounding external national borders and internal domestic borders as these are challenged by the unstoppable flow of documented and undocumented migrants. While many studies of migration have examined how religion plays a major role in the assimilation and integration of waves of migration, this volume looks at a number of empirical studies of how emergent religious practices arise around border crossings. The volume begins with a detailed analysis of the borderland religion context and research. The aim is to bring an eschatological interpretation of the borderland religion, its impact and significance for migrants. Themes include a critical analysis of how religion has formatted Europe; empirical studies from the US/Mexican border and Southern Africa; an overview of the European refugee crisis in 2015; editors’ account of borderland religion from the perspective of citizenship studies. Contributions of scholars from a broad range of disciplines ensure a careful analysis of this highly topical situation. The volume’s interdisciplinary profile will appeal to scholars and students in religious studies, migration studies, theology and citizenship studies.

Author : Amanze, James N.,Masango, Maake
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789996060762

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Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 2 by Amanze, James N.,Masango, Maake Pdf

This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development – Southern African Perspectives." The theme of the conference was adopted in order to underline the importance and significance of religion in the socio-economic development of people in the world generally and in Southern and Central Africa in particular. The papers in the book are divided into two volumes. Volume one consists of papers which directly discuss religion and development in one form or another. The second volume contains papers that discuss religion and other pertinent issues related to development. The papers are grouped into sub-themes for ease of reference. These include Citizenship and Development, Migration and Development, Disability and Development, Pentecostal Churches and Development and Religion and Society. All in all, despite a divergence of sub-themes in volume two, all point to issues to do with the role of religion in development in Southern and Central Africa today.

Author : Timothy Chandler,Tara Magdalinski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134511662

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With God on their Side by Timothy Chandler,Tara Magdalinski Pdf

'Sport' and 'religion' are cultural institutions with a global reach. Each is characterised by ritualised performance and by the ecstatic devotion of its followers, whether in the sports arena or the cathedral of worship. This fascinating collection is the first to examine, in detail, the relationship between these two cultural institutions from an international, religiously pluralistic perspective. It illuminates the role of sport and religion in the social formation of collective groups, and explores how sport might operate in the service of a religious community. The book offers a series of cutting-edge contemporary historical case-studies, wide-ranging in their social and religious contexts. It presents important new work on the following fascinating topics: * sport and Catholicism in Northern Ireland * Shinto and sumo in Japan * women, sport and the American Jewish identity * religion, race and rugby in South Africa * sport and Islam in France and North Africa * sport and Christian fundamentalism in the US * Muhammad Ali and the Nation of Islam. With God on their Side is vital reading for all students of the history, sociology and culture of sport. It also presents important new research material that will be of interest to religious studies students, historians and anthropologists.

Author : Fortune Sibanda,Tenson Muyambo,Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000542080

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Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa by Fortune Sibanda,Tenson Muyambo,Ezra Chitando Pdf

This book investigates the role of religion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa. Building on a diverse range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, the book reflects on how religion, politics and health have interfaced in Southern African contexts, when faced with the sudden public health emergency caused by the pandemic. Religious actors have played a key role on the frontline throughout the pandemic, sometimes posing roadblocks to public health messaging, but more often deploying their resources to help provide effective and timely responses. Drawing on case studies from African indigenous knowledge systems, Islam, Rastafari and various forms of Christianity, this book provides important reflections on the role of religion in crisis response. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of African Studies, Health, Politics and Religious Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401210577

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Trajectories of Religion in Africa by Anonim Pdf

The book, in the main, discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological education and assesses the relevance of the World Council of Churches. Other issues discussed in this segment relate to the interrelationships that exist between academic theology, ecumenism, and Christianity. The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, which set the agenda for world-wide mission in a promising manner in the 1920s, is also assessed in this section of the work. The second segment, which covers Religion and Public Space, discusses works that examine the relationships between religion and power, religion and development, religion and traditional religious beliefs, and religion and practices in Africa. The third segment of the book treats Religion and Cultural Practices in African and how all these work out in couching out an African theology and African Christianity. Some of the issues discussed in this section related to African traditional philosophy, spiritism, and the interrelationships that exist between African Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The last segment of the book discusses the issue of African biblical hermeneutics and specifically looks at contemporary hermeneutical approaches to biblical interpretations in Africa.