Oral Literature And Moral Education Among The Lakeside Tonga Of Northern Malawi

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Oral Literature and Moral Education among the Lakeside Tonga of Northern Malawi

Author : David Mphande
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789990804041

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Oral Literature and Moral Education among the Lakeside Tonga of Northern Malawi by David Mphande Pdf

This is a book about the Tonga of Northern Malawi, sometimes called the Lakeshore Tonga to distinguish them from other ethnic groups with the same name further west in Central Africa. The Lakeshore Tonga were the first ethnic group to identify themselves with the Christian faith. The purpose of the research was to investigate the use of Tonga myths, folktales, proverbs and rituals for their role in Moral Education and assess and evaluate their contribution towards value formation for the youth. Each chapter in the book aims to discuss some ideas in the anthropology of religion and to illustrate them with specific case studies formed primarily through conversation with friends, both young and old, over some years.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South

Author : Yonah Hisbon Matemba,Bruce A. Collet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350105843

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South by Yonah Hisbon Matemba,Bruce A. Collet Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South presents new comparative perspectives on Religious Education (RE) across the Global South. Including 23 chapters written by scholars from the Global North and South, this is the first authoritative reference work on the subject. The handbook is thematically organised into seven sections. The first three sections deal with provision, response to changes in contemporary society, and decolonizing RE. The next four sections explore young people and RE, perspectives on teachers, RE in higher education, and finally, challenges and opportunities for RE. The term 'Global South' is used here primarily to signify the deep economic divide with the Global North, but the concept is also examined in historical, geographical, political, social and cultural terms, including the indelible influence of religion in all four broadly defined regions. Exploring RE from local, cross-national as well as regional and sub-regional perspectives, the handbook examines RE from its diverse past, present realities, and envisioned future revealing not only tensions, contestations, injustices and inequalities of power, but importantly, how inclusive forms of RE can help solve these problems.

An Introduction to Malawi

Author : Cecilia Lawrence
Publisher : Intercontinental Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781979972772

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An Introduction to Malawi by Cecilia Lawrence Pdf

This work provides basic facts about Malawi. It is intended to serve as a brief introduction to this southeast African country and enable some people, who know nothing or very little about Malawi, to learn important facts which can help them learn more about the people and the history of one of the most fascinating countries on the African continent. Who are the people of Malawi? What are their ethnic identities? What is the country's history? How is the land? What are some of its prominent features? How is life in Malawi? What are some of the cultural aspects which give the country its own identity? Is there a national culture or simply cultures of different ethnic groups? What are some of the towns and cities of this predominantly agricultural country and one of the poorest in Africa? What is the country's future in a region with richer and more powerful neighbours? Is federation with them possible and a solution to the country's economic problems? Those are some of the questions I have attempted to answer in this book.

Wisdom of the Tumbuka People

Author : William Mumba
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789996066658

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Wisdom of the Tumbuka People by William Mumba Pdf

Proverbs in Africa are capsules of the wisdom of the people. Luviri Press is happy to present another collection of such proverbs this time focussing on the Tumbuka people who live in Northern Malawi and Eastern Zambia. The people of Central Africa are a mixed people with mixed cultures due to a mixed history. Citumbuka, the language as it is known today, is a result of a complex process of interactions of the different languages of ethnic groups knitted together by historical events. A study of the Tumbuka proverbs and expressions reveal this cultural interaction.

Conflicted Power in Malawian Christianity

Author : Klaus Fiedler
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996045080

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Conflicted Power in Malawian Christianity by Klaus Fiedler Pdf

The volume constitutes Klaus Fiedlers crowning contribution to scholarship. Essays in the first half of the book focus on Malawian Christianity and how contrasting Powers, Gospel and Secular, engage each other, creating social, political and cultural conflict in the process. In the second half, Fiedler examines general missiological themes. These essays provide a broader missiological background, offering a theoretical framework necessary for appreciating the essays in the first half. He concludes with a chapter that reviews selected seminal books on themes under study. Throughout the volume Fiedler applies the restorationist revival theory he constructed in The Story of Faith Missions, an earlier 1994 work putting emphasis on non classical missions and churches, not systematically covered in earlier scholarship. This volume, the first of its kind on Malawian Christianity, will long remain an indispensable text for those interested in Missiology and Malawian Christianity.

Umunthu Theology: An Introduction

Author : Augustine Musopole
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996060977

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Umunthu Theology: An Introduction by Augustine Musopole Pdf

What is the key to understanding in a truly Malawian way? After a lifetime's theological reflection the author finds the answer in the concept of uMunthu (personhood or human-ness). Drawing on Malawi's cultures and languages, the biblical text and the evangelical faith, he casts a theological vision that can be transformative for church and nation.

African Feminist Hermeneutics

Author : Fiedler, Rachel NyaGondwe,Hofmeyr, Johannes W.
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996045202

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African Feminist Hermeneutics by Fiedler, Rachel NyaGondwe,Hofmeyr, Johannes W. Pdf

This book has six chapters: The first Chapter deals with a brief history on the genesis of African Feminist theologies as an 'irruption within an irruption' of Feminist theological movements in the world including a reflection on its relationship to the secular Feminist Movement, and to similar theologies such as Contextual Theology, Liberation Theology and the Holiness Feminist Movement. The second chapter deals with an introduction to African Feminist Hermeneutics. In this chapter, the three branches of African Feminist Hermeneutics, the general theories, principles and approaches to African Feminist Hermeneutics are highlighted. The third chapter deals with an Evangelical Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics of the Old Testament. The fourth chapter deals with an Evangelical Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics of the New Testament. The fifth is about how Malawian Christian women interpret culture, Bible and power relations to realise their own liberation and chapter 6 concludes the book.

Religion and Culture in a Changing Malawi

Author : Joseph Chakanza
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789996060250

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Religion and Culture in a Changing Malawi by Joseph Chakanza Pdf

Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza was born in 1943 at Mchacha Village, T.A. Malemia in Nsanje District where he grew up and discovered his vocation as a Catholic priest, being ordained in 1969. After studies for a Master's degree at the University of Aberdeen, he returned to Malawi and was appointed Lecturer in Religious Studies at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, in 1977. During the 1980s he took study leave to complete his DPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Thereafter he remained at Chancellor College until his retirement in 2007, serving for many years as the inspirational Head of the Department of Religious Studies. After retirement he embarked on a further period of teaching at the Catholic University of Malawi. His stature in the Catholic Church was recognised when he was made a Monsignor in June 2019. He died in his home diocese of Chikwawa in April 2020.

World Mythology

Author : David Seal,Sharon K. Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725268029

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World Mythology by David Seal,Sharon K. Smith Pdf

Mythology and religious-studies teachers will appreciate World Mythology for its thematic approach, historical background information, commentary, and discussion questions provided for each myth from a range of geographic regions. For the same reasons, any reader interested in mythology will enjoy the contents and format of the book.

Oral Literature of the Maasai

Author : Kipuri, Naomi
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966461735

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Oral Literature of the Maasai by Kipuri, Naomi Pdf

Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in Kajiado County of Kenya. The author listened to many of the narratives and participated in many proverb and riddle telling sessions as she grew up in her Ilbissil village of Kajiado Central Sub-county. However, she recorded most of the examples of oral literature in the early seventies with the help of her mother, who performed the role of the oral artist. Many songs were recorded from live performances. The examples ring with individuality, while also revealing a comprehensive way of life of a people. The images in the literature reveal the concrete life of the Maasai – people living closely with their livestock and engaged in constant struggle with the environment. But like all important literature, the materials here ultimately reveal a people with its moral and spiritual concerns, grappling with questions of human values and relations, struggling for a better social order. This book recommends itself to the general reader. However, the book is more than this: it includes stimulating discussions of examples, as well as review questions and exercises. The book is highly recommended to students of oral literature at secondary school level and at the university.

Tonga Proverbs for Teaching and Preaching

Author : David K. Mphande
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Christian life
ISBN : UOM:39015064738910

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Tonga Proverbs for Teaching and Preaching by David K. Mphande Pdf

Very little has been written about the language and culture of the lakeside Tonga people of Malawi. This collection of Tonga proverbs with translations and explanations illustrates the moral and religious values, wisdom and philosophy of the Tonga people inculcated in the language. The selection is an effort to kick-start interest and further research in this language and culture.

Life Lessons of African Proverbs

Author : Obiakor, Festus E.,Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780997868975

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Life Lessons of African Proverbs by Obiakor, Festus E.,Okoro, Dike Pdf

African folklore, narratives, idiomatic expressions, and cultures are weaved into short sentences that are rich with wisdom. The primary goal of this book is to disseminate knowledge and share the rich culture of Africa, one does not have to be African to appreciate the creative language at play in this book. Readers are encouraged to use the wisdom embedded in these proverbs to transform their lives and the lives of their loved ones and friends.

Crossroads of Culture

Author : Eric Lindland
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996060427

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Crossroads of Culture by Eric Lindland Pdf

Combining history, ethnography, and culture theory, this book explores how residents in northwestern Malawi have responded over time to the early missionary assertion that local religious and healing practices were incompatible with Christianity and western medicine. It details how local agents, in the past and today, have constructed new cultural forms that weave facets of ancestral spiritualism and divination with Christianity and biomedicine. Alongside a rich historical review of the late-19th century encounter between Tumbuka-speakers and the Scottish Presbyterians of the Livingstonia Mission, the book explores the contemporary therapeutic dance complex known as Vimbuza and considers two case studies, each the story of a man confronting illness and struggling to understand the roots and meaning of his a?iction. In the process, the book considers the enduring missiological and anthropological topics of conversion and syncretism, and questions the assertion by some scholars that Western missionaries in Africa have been successful agents of religious hegemony.

A Wealth of Wisdom

Author : Fochang, Babila
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942876014

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A Wealth of Wisdom by Fochang, Babila Pdf

Among the Igbo, Chinua Achebe reminds us, proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten. This is true of the Igbo as it is for most peoples across the African continent. In this revised and enlarged volume, Rev. Babila Fochang serves us with a generous blend of proverbs from all regions of the continent. With over 800 proverbs covering an exhaustive range of themes and topics, you won't have to repeat a proverb for over two years.

Old Nyaviyuyi in Performance

Author : Tito Banda
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789996060335

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Old Nyaviyuyi in Performance by Tito Banda Pdf

Reading these tales from Northern Malawi readers come close to watching an original performance and the tales and the songs encapsulate the essence of Malawian culture. The authors presentation, using performance directions, allows the reader to see and hear old Nyaviyuyi as she, through word, voice, tone and gesture, mocks nosy wives, and celebrates the devotion of friendship and parental love. The author has made a further contribution to the topic by including musical notations for the songs.