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Pentecostalism and Human Rights in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Author : Francis Machingura,Lovemore Togarasei
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527512368

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Pentecostalism and Human Rights in Contemporary Zimbabwe by Francis Machingura,Lovemore Togarasei Pdf

This volume offers updated accounts of Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe, and explores most of the dominant themes in contemporary Pentecostalism, including leadership, competition, gender, youth and prosperity. In addition, some chapters investigate emerging themes in studies on Pentecostalism, such as disability. Contributors to this volume situate Zimbabwean Pentecostalism within the larger continuum of global Pentecostalism, and reflect on Pentecostal biblical interpretation, the interface between Pentecostalism and African Traditional Religions, the use of titles in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism and Pentecostalism’s engagement with HIV/AIDS. The book will appeal to scholars in religious studies and theology, religious education, disability studies, social sciences, history, political science, development studies, gender, cultural studies, and anthropology, as well as general readers.

Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe

Author : Lovemore Togarasei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319785653

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Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe by Lovemore Togarasei Pdf

This edited book offers an engaging portrait into a vital, religious movement inside this southern Africa country. It tells the story of a community of faith that is often overlooked in the region. The authors include leading scholars of religion, theology, and politics from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The insights they present will help readers understand the place of Pentecostal Christianity in this land of many religions. The chapters detail a history of the movement from its inception to the present. Chapters focus on specific Pentecostal churches, general doctrine of the movement, and the movement’s contribution to the country. The writing is deeply informed and features deep historical, theological, and sociological analysis throughout. Readers will also learn about the socio-political and economic relevance of the faith in Zimbabwe as well as the theoretical and methodological implications raised by the Pentecostalisation of society. The volume will serve as a resource book both for teaching and for those doing research on various aspects of the Zimbabwean society past, present, and future. It will be a good resource for those in schools and university and college departments of religious studies, theology, history, politics, sociology, social anthropology, and related studies. Over and above academic and research readers, the book will also be very useful to government policy makers, non-governmental organizations, and civic societies who have the Church as an important stakeholder.

Religion and Social Marginalization in Zimbabwe

Author : Togarasei, Lovemore,Bishau, David,Chitando, Ezra
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783863097455

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Religion and Social Marginalization in Zimbabwe by Togarasei, Lovemore,Bishau, David,Chitando, Ezra Pdf

"Marginalization means being disregarded, ostracized, harassed, disliked, persecuted, or generally looked down upon. Marginalized people often include women and children, the poor, the disabled, sexual, religious, or ethnic minorities, refugees. The marginalized are those who are socially, politically, culturally, or economically excluded from main-stream society. In history, the Church in Zimbabwe has played a role in improving the lives of the marginalized, but what is religion, especially Christianity, doing for the marginalized now? Although religion is also implicated in marginalisation, the contributions in this volume did not address this angle as they focused on the role that religion can and should play to fight marginalization. The chapters come from two conferences (2012, 2014) that were held under the flag of ATISCA. The contributions have been updated to include later developments and publications"--

Innovation and Competition in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350176041

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Innovation and Competition in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism by Ezra Chitando Pdf

Using the concept of a “religious market”, this volume explores how African Traditional Religions and churches within Prophetic Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe seek to attract and retain members and clients. Chapters provide extensive coverage of two of the leading churches, namely, Emmanuel Makandiwa's United Family International Church (UFIC) and Walter Magaya's Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD). Contributors also explore the strategies adopted by Pentecostalism in general, while others focus on African Traditional Religions. They show that although Prophetic Pentecostalism has gained a significant share of the market in Zimbabwe and in Southern Africa in general, it is not without controversy. In particular, it has been associated with the abuse of women and exploiting members and clients for financial gain. Innovation and Competition in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism is an important contribution to understanding the marketization of religion.

African Pentecostal Theology

Author : Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666953671

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African Pentecostal Theology by Mookgo Solomon Kgatle Pdf

African Pentecostal Theology: Modality, Disciplinarity, and Decoloniality explores research methodology, theological disciplines, and contextualization as important aspects in the process of studying Pentecostal theology in an African context. Mookgo Solomon Kgatle outlines different data collection and data analysis methods, including the skills of interpreting and presenting research findings in a responsible manner. This book illustrates that Pentecostal theology, given its pneumatological approach, goes beyond conventional theological disciplines in transdisciplinary research. The development of knowledge in African Pentecostal Theology should recognize African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS), African oral and traditional cultures, and African indigenous languages to be relevant to Africans. Pentecostal theologians from different theological disciplines in Africa and globally will find this book a worthwhile read.

Pentecostalism and Cultism in South Africa

Author : Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030697242

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Pentecostalism and Cultism in South Africa by Mookgo Solomon Kgatle Pdf

Pentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity. However, the growth of Pentecostalism in South Africa has faced some challenges, including the abuse of religion by some prophets. This book first names these prophets and the churches they lead in South Africa, and then makes use of literary and media analysis to analyse the religious practices by the prophets in relation to cultism. Additionally, the book analyses the “celebrity cult” and how it helps promote the prophets in South Africa. The purpose of this book is threefold: First, to draw parallels between the abuse of religion and cultism. Second, to illustrate that it is cultic tendencies, including the celebrity cult, that has given rise to many prophets in South Africa. Last, to showcase that the challenge for many of these prophets is that the Pentecostal tradition is actually anti-cultism, and thus there is a need for them to rethink their cultic tendencies in order for them to be truly relevant in a South African context.

Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in 21st Century Africa

Author : Tenson Muyambo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956552559

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Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in 21st Century Africa by Tenson Muyambo Pdf

This book is on the re-imagination of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and practices in 21st century Africa. Framed from an anti-colonial perspective, the book critically interrogates epistemological erasures and injustices meted against African IKS and practices. It magnifies the different contexts where African IKS were and continue to be used effectively for collective and personal benefit. Beyond the legitimate frustration and disheartenment expressed by the contributors to this volume over the systematic colonial efforts to render inferior and delegitimate African systems of knowing and knowledge production, the book makes an important contribution to the quest to correct misconceptions and misrepresentations by Eurocentric thinkers and practitioners about African indigenous knowledges. The book makes an informed claim that the future and vibrancy of African indigenous knowledge and practices lie in how well scholars of knowledge studies and decoloniality in and on Africa are able to join hands in articulating, debating and fronting their vitality and relevance in varied real-life situations. More importantly, the book provides a re-invigorated overview and nuanced analyses of the important role and continued relevance of African IKS and practices in the understanding, interpreting and tackling of the social unfoldings of everyday life and dynamism. Without romanticising African IKS and practices, the book provides added insights and pointers on policy and trends. It is an important addition to critical debates on knowledge studies across fields.

African Pentecostalism, the Bible, and Cultural Resilience

Author : Biri, Kudzai
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783863097134

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African Pentecostalism, the Bible, and Cultural Resilience by Biri, Kudzai Pdf

"This volume, based on a PhD thesis submitted to the University of Zimbabwe, investigates the resilience of Shona religion and culture among ZAOGA Pentecostal Christians. Whereas the Pentecostal ideology suggests that 'old things' have passed away, it appears that 'old things' continue to have high significance for the 'new'. The book demonstrates how belief in avenging spirits, witches and witchcraft, value of words spoken prior to death, the role, status and significance of women, belief in unnatural events, liturgy and salvation have remained relevant to the lives of ZAOGA Shona converts. The patterns of continuity, discontinuity, extension, collaboration, contradiction, re-interpretation and rejection between Shona traditional religion and culture and ZAOGA are explored, challenging the framing of African Pentecostalism as a mere imitation and parroting of US theology. The conclusion is that while ZAOGA self-consciously presents itself as a sophisticated, trans-national and progressive Pentecostal movement, members continue to wrestle with Shona indigenous beliefs and practices. An African womanist framework is adapted to challenge ZAOGA to promote the well-being of women." --

Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004446670

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Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism by Anonim Pdf

In Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism, the contributors reflect on how Pentecostalism contributes to the empowerment of marginalised societies, empowers women through the matarenda practices, and contributes to the development of wider society.

The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing

Author : Jayjit Sarkar,Jagannath Basu
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648892714

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The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing by Jayjit Sarkar,Jagannath Basu Pdf

Focusing on the various intersections between illness and literature across time and space, The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer seeks to understand how ontological, phenomenological and epistemological experiences of illness have been dealt with and represented in literary writings and literary studies. In this volume, scholars from across the world have come together to understand how the pathological condition of being ill (the sufferers), as well as the pathologists dealing with the ill (the healers and caregivers), have shaped literary works. The language of medical science, with its jargon, and the language of the every day, with its emphasis on utility, prove equally insufficient and futile in capturing the pain and suffering of illness. It is this insufficiency and futility that makes us turn towards the canonical works of Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, Kazuo Ishiguro, Miroslav Holub as well as the non-canonical António Lobo Antunes, Yumemakura Baku, Wopko Jensma and Vaslav Nijinsky. This volume helps in understanding and capturing the metalanguage of illness while presenting us with the tradition of ‘writing pain’. In an effort to expand the definition of pathography to include those who are on the other side of pain, the essays in this collection aim to portray the above-mentioned pathographers as artists, turning the anxiety and suffering of illness into an art form. Looking deeply into such creative aspects of illness, this book also seeks to evoke the possibility of pathography as world literature. This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate, postgraduate and research students, as well as scholars of literature and medical humanities who are interested in the intersections between literary studies and medical science.

African Churches Ministering 'to and with' Persons with Disabilities

Author : Nomatter Sande
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000645231

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African Churches Ministering 'to and with' Persons with Disabilities by Nomatter Sande Pdf

This book engages with Christian church traditions and disability issues in Africa, focusing on Zimbabwe in particular. It critically reflects on how the church has not done much to intentionally minister ‘to and with’ persons with disabilities. In the context of this volume, ‘ministering to’ is concerned with creating worshipping space for persons with disabilities; while ‘ministering with’ is connecting and identifying with persons with disabilities to meet their needs from the material life of the church. The author considers a stewardship model of disability as an appropriate ministerial response to transform lives in poverty-stricken postcolonial contexts. The argument put forth is that the church is a living organism endowed with spiritual and material resources, and that these resources should be appropriated to marginalised stakeholders.

The Life and Music of Oliver Mtukudzi

Author : Ezra Chitando,Pauline Mateveke,Munyaradzi Nyakudya,Bridget Chinouriri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783030807283

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The Life and Music of Oliver Mtukudzi by Ezra Chitando,Pauline Mateveke,Munyaradzi Nyakudya,Bridget Chinouriri Pdf

This book is a critical reflection on the life and career of the late legendary Zimbabwean music icon, Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi, and his contribution towards the reconstruction of Zimbabwe, Africa and the globe at large. Mtukudzi was a musician, philosopher, and human rights activist who espoused the agenda of reconstruction in order to bring about a better world, proposing personal, cultural, political, religious and global reconstruction. With twenty original chapters, this vibrant volume examines various themes and dimensions of Mtukudzi’s distinguished life and career, notably, how his music has been a powerful vehicle for societal reconstruction and cultural rejuvenation, specifically speaking to issues of culture, human rights, governance, peacebuilding, religion and identity, humanism, gender and politics, among others. The contributors explore the art of performance in Mtukudzi’s music and acting career, and how this facilitated his reconstruction agenda, offering fresh and compelling perspectives into the role of performing artists and cultural workers such as Mtukudzi in presenting models for reconstructing the world.

Key Issues in Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion

Author : Alan Hodkinson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781529700572

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Key Issues in Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion by Alan Hodkinson Pdf

This third edition continues to guide students through the challenging field of special educational needs and disability. Contextualising SEND in relation to historical, ideological and political developments, this book offers essential support to students as they develop a critical and up-to-date understanding of the practical challenges and opportunities concerning inclusion. New edition features include: • Up-to-date legislation, such as the SEND Code of Practice • Material surrounding social, emotional and mental Heath • New practical case studies, reflections and activities • Revised chapter summaries • More on the future of SEND

Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts

Author : Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527571150

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Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts by Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong Pdf

Through a wide range of indigenous, postcolonial, gender and racial lenses, African writers have provided perspectives on various aspects of old age in the context of African literatures and cultures. This book illustrates how African literary and linguistic representations, ranging from short stories, novels and film to drama and theatre, give expression to ideas about old age. The perspectives offered here provide essential knowledge in understanding the uses of dichotomous age-related categories, such as old-young, elderly male-elderly female, and foreign-indigenous, which generally result in prejudice. Using ageism as its central theme, the contributions draw attention to the ambiguity associated with elderly people in African society who are often highly venerated for their wisdom, but also stereotyped because of their advanced age. However, as the book demonstrates, old age is also deeply valorised in some traditional African contexts, where older adults are regarded as indispensable members of society. It will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers, and students of African studies, applied theatre studies, gerontology, postcolonialism, sociolinguistics, sociology and anthropology.

The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa

Author : Susan M. Kilonzo,Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031368295

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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa by Susan M. Kilonzo,Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira Pdf

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development in Africa, while also acknowledging that religion can also be a tool of destruction, and can be used to fuel violence and underdevelopment. Contributors to this volume offer theoretical discussions from existing literature, as well as experiences of practitioners, to deepen the readers’ understanding on the role of religion and religious institutions in peacebuilding and development in Africa. The Handbook provides reflections on possible future developments as well, thereby aligning with the goals of SDG 16.