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Author : Henry Kam Kah,Bea Lundt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Polygamy
ISBN : 9783643961426
Author : Henry Kam Kah,Bea Lundt
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643911421
Polygamy is a very complex phenomenon with a long tradition in Africa, but also in Europe. The anthology will contribute to the objectification of the discussion by portraying the variety of polygamous lifestyles showing the interconnections of family structure, social and economic conditions, cultural representations (especially in fictive writing and oral tradition), spiritual meaning and religious legitimation of this way of life between traditional belief, Christianity and Islam. Case studies from different countries in Africa south of the Sahara will be added by historic examples since antiquity in Europe up to the discussion in present times.
Author : Gam Nkwi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789956551828
This book collates thematic reflections on Cameroon music exalting Manu Dibango, one of the first-generation Cameroonian musicians, who bowed to Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Granted his enormous contribution to Cameroon, African and world music, one would have expected that scholarly books and encyclopaedia of recognition would be written in his honour prior to his demise. However, that was not the case. Like many other musicians in Cameroon, seemingly nothing substantial has been written about Manu Dibango and his music, with the exception, paradoxically, of his autobiography, Three Kilos of Coffee. What exists on this towering and humble giant of Cameroonian and African superstardom is scanty and mostly in the form of grey literature. We must learn to immortalise our artists and popular intellectuals beyond their entertainment value and the photo opportunities that we have with them in their lifetime. The inspiration for this book was drawn from the conviction that one of the best ways of honouring and valorising Manu Dibango would be by taking the cue from his music and then collecting essays generally on music, its role and impact in Cameroon, Africa and beyond.
Author : Samuel Ntewusu,Nina Paarmann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643144997
Fragen zur Geschlechtergeschichte, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Kindheits- und Bildungsforschung, Kolonialgeschichte sowie Erzählforschung stehen im Zentrum des vorliegenden Bandes. Aus Perspektiven verschiedener kulturwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen spiegeln Autoren und Autorinnen aus afrikanischen und europäischen Ländern zentrale Themen aus dem Lebenswerk von Bea Lundt, der das Buch gewidmet ist. Questions on gender history, the Middle Ages and early modern times, childhood and educational research, colonial history and narrative research are the focus of the present volume. From the perspectives of various disciplines, authors from African and European countries reflect central themes from the life's work of Bea Lundt, to whom the book is dedicated.
Author : Saad E. Ibrahim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000303827
The skyrocketing Arab oil revenues of the 1970s have triggered tremendous socioeconomic forces in the Arab world. Observers have extensively studied the financial and geopolitical aspects of Arab oil, but generally have ignored the human and social repercussions stimulated by the oil wealth. This book challenges the commonly accepted view of the im
Author : Peter Beyer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803989172
In his exploration of the interaction between religion and worldwide social and cultural change, the author examines the major theories of global change and discusses the ways in which such change impinges on contemporary religious practice, meaning and influence. Beyer explores some of the key issues in understanding the shape of religion today, including religion as culture and as social system, pure and applied religion, privatized and publicly influential religion, and liberal versus conservative religions. He goes on to apply these issues to five contemporary illustrative cases: the American Christian Right; Liberation Theology movements in Latin America; the Islamic Revolution in Iran; Zionists in Israel; and religiou
Author : Ulrich Pallua,Adrian Knapp,Andreas Exenberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080759148
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform "World Order - Religion - Violence" seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. It therefore deals especially with the return of religious themes and symbols into politics, with the analysis of the link between political theory and religion, and finally with the critical discussion of the secularization thesis. At the centre of the research are questions concerning the causes of violent conflict, the possibilities for a just world order and the conditions for peaceful coexistence on a local, regional, national and international/worldwide scale between communities in the face of divergent religious and ideological convictions. Its task is to initiate and coordinate thematically related research-efforts from various disciplinary backgrounds at the University of Innsbruck. It creates a network between departments, research-teams and single researchers working on topics of religion, politics and violence. The overall aim of the research platform World Order-Religion-Violence is to promote excellence in social and human science research on religion and politics at the University of Innsbruck and to guarantee the diffusion of this particular competence on a national and international level."
Author : Georg Stauth
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 3825832767
" In this first volume of the Yearbook of Sociology of Islam Georg Stauth brought together Islamologists and Sociologists who explore Islam and modern applications of Islamic thought as a way of demonstrating in a variety of social fields the ambiguity of the effective use of religious ideas and specifically Islamic models of social order to promote change. Far away from being apologetic, this collection of papers intends to show that the transcendental visions of Islam have been used as a foundational matrix for an indigenized ""Islamic Sociology"" as much as they played an important role in the modern restructuration of local symbolic and political orders. Analysis and discourse are privileged components in the scientific part of both the Islamic and the Western world. Accordingly, this volume attempts to contribute to the ongoing dialogue among sociologists about the effective ""history"" of exchange between Islamic visions and modernity. Contributors: Mona Abaza, Mohammed Arkoun, Friedemann Büttner, Fanny Colonna, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Peter Heine, Armando Salvatore, Reinhard Schulze, Georg Stauth, Karin Werner, Sami Zubaida Editor: Georg Stauth teaches sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. "
Author : Wolfgang Zach,Ulrich Pallua
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Englisch
ISBN : 3631590458
The papers presented here offer a major challenge to previously conceived ideas about issues like slavery, racism, ethnic relations, nationalism, and cultural identity generating responses, critiques, revisions, counterarguments, and new perspectives. This volume is not only meant to address important matters of the past but also of the present and future as racism, ethnic relations, and cultural identity - with the attendant issues of human rights, freedom, and emancipation - will assume an ever-increasing significance in our globalised but ethically, socially, and culturally divided world. The volume is subdivided into three sections: «Racism and Nationalism» containing papers dealing with issues of racism and nationalism in a broader context, «Slavery: From Past to Present» exploring the concept of slavery in different literary genres and historical periods, «Cultural Identity and Ethnic Relations» dealing with cultural memory, nationalism, and relations between cultural and ethnic groups.
Author : Bea Lundt,Christoph Marx
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 3515115722
In 1957, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country in Africa to achieve independence. The key African figure in this process was Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the new state. Having studied in the USA and in London he was influenced by socialist and pan-African ideals. His ambitious projects in the fields of education and scientific as well as technological development provided an example for other former colonies. But in 1966 he was overthrown by a military coup supported by the USA and died in exile in 1972. Fifty years later, his memory is omnipresent in Ghanaian society and in other African countries. Still, his achievements are a subject of controversy. Was he a hero of the anti-colonial struggle or an authoritarian dictator? This volume presents chapters by researchers from Ghana, Austria, Germany, and the USA. They analyse the visionary politics of Nkrumah, investigate the reasons for the growing protest against his rule and shed new light on the background of the coup. The last part is dedicated to questions of evaluation and memory. Fifty years after his fall from power, new research and distance from the events allow for a more balanced judgment of Nkrumah.
Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110434460
First title of the new series Work in Global and Historical Perspective that introduces the conceptual approach towards the field of global labour history through a collection of essays chosen by the editors.
Author : Gilles Kepel
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271013141
Kepel traces the resurgence of religious belief in the modern world, focussing on radical movemnets within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Author : Jörg Dürrschmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135434236
Rejecting simplifying notions of globalisation as a macro-economic force, this book provides a grounded picture of the various ways in which people's biographies are tied up with the global cultural economy. The main argument of the book is that the globalisation of lives is experienced by people as the 'extension' of their 'milieux' both spatially and symbolically.
Author : Helon Habila,Kadija George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132055463
Author : Michael Byram
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853592110
Offers some theoretical innovations in teaching foreign languages and reports how they have been applied to curriculum development and experimental courses at the upper secondary and college levels. Approaches language learning as comprising several dimensions, including grammatical competence, change in attitudes, learning about another culture, and reflecting on one's own. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR