The Bible And Politics In Africa

Author : Joachim Kügler,Masiiwa Ragies Gunda
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863090913

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Section 1: The Bible and broad political discourses in Africa. "Rewriting" the Bible or de-biblifying the public sphere? Proposals and propositions on the usage of the Bible by public figures in Zimbabwe/ by Masiiwa Ragies Gunda. The Bible and the quest for democracy and democratization in Africa: the Zimbabwe experience / by Eliot Tofa. The Bible and the quest for developmental justice: the case of orphans in Namibia / by Jannie Hunter. The Bible in the service of pan-africanism: the case of Dr Tafataona Mahoso's pan-african biblical exegesis / by Obvious Vengeyi. The ANC's deployment of religion in nation building: from Thabo Mbeki, to "the RDP of the soul", to Jacob Zuma / by Gerald West. The Bible and democracy in Africa: how biblical science can contribute towards the establishment of plurality and democracy, the Bible as a relevant tool in the quest for engendering plurality / by Jephthah Kiara Gathaka. Section 2: Some readings of the Bible in/for political discourses in Africa. Contextual theological reading of the Bible with indigenous communities: the case of the Basarwa/San in Botswana / by Moji Ruele. A theological reflection on Romans 13:1-7 in the 21st century Zimbabwean politics / by Phillemon M. Chamburuka. The Judas Iscariot episode In the zimbabwean religio-political debate of "selling out" / by Francis Machingura. Inspiring for liberation - legitimizing for occupation : interpretations of the Exodus from southern Africa / by Stephanie Feder. Politics of feeding: reading John 6 (and 1 Cor 11) as documents of socio-political conflicts / by Joachim Kügler. "If my people ..." a critical analysis of the deployment of 2 Chronicles 7:14 during the Zimbabwean crisis / by Ezra Chitando. Towards a new reading of the bible in africa - spy exegesis / by Canisius Mwandayi. Empowering the poor: the Bible and the poor in informal settlements in Africa with reference to Mangaung, South Africa / Pieter Verster. Section 3: The bible, gender and politics in Africa. The politics of "biblical manhood": a critical study of masculinity politics and biblical hermeneutics in a Zambian pentecostal church / Adriaan S. Van Klinken. The bible as a source of strength among Zimbabwean women during socio-economic and political crises / by Elizabeth Vengeyi. An analysis of the application of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 and 1 Timothy 2:11-14: the politics of pentecostalism and women's ministries in Zimbabwe / by Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga.

Author : Masiiwa Ragies Gunda,Joachim Kügler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bible and politics
ISBN : 386309090X

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Author : Adeshina Afolayan,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319749112

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Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa by Adeshina Afolayan,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola Pdf

As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent. This collection of essays offers a groundbreaking study of the complex links between politics and African Pentecostalism. Situated at the intersection between the political, the postcolonial, and global neoliberal capitalism, contributors examine the roots of the Pentecostal movement’s extraordinary growth; how Pentecostalism intervenes in key social and political issues, such as citizenship, party politics, development challenges, and identity; and conversely, how politics in Africa modulate the Pentecostal movement. Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa offers a wide-ranging picture of a central dimension of postcolonial African life, opening up new directions for future research.

Author : John Vernon Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106000173325

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Christianity and Politics in Africa by John Vernon Taylor Pdf

Author : Emmanuel K. Twesigye
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : 1433111128

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Religion, Politics and Cults in East Africa by Emmanuel K. Twesigye Pdf

"Religion, Politics and Cults in East Africa is the first major, original, and extensive research-based study of the apocalyptic and doomsday Catholic Marian Movement and its Benedictine monastic moral and religious practices, including vows of poverty, celibacy, obedience, daily contemplation in silence, and hard work. The Marian Movement is presented within the cultural, historical, political, and religious context of the East African Revival Movement, the Anglican Balokole Movement, Alice Lakwena's Holy Spirit Movement, Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and other religio-political liberation movements, including the Maji Maji, the Mau Mau, and Nyabingi Liberation Movement. The Marian Movement was locally known as "Abanyabugoto" and "The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God". It began in 1989 as a Catholic women's Marian devotional and moral reformation movement, founded and headed by Keledonia Mwerinde. Faced with African cultural patriarchy and male-dominated Catholic Church hierarchy, Mwerinde recruited Joseph Kibwetere and the Rev. Fr. Dominic Kataribabo to serve as the public face of the Marian Movement. In response to Catholic hierarchy's opposition and persecution, Fr. Kataribabo designed a theology of ritual sacrifice, atonement, and martyrdoms for the devout Marian Catholics, who were devotees of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He martyred the Marian devotees in March 2000, in order to transform them into Mary's saints, and to liberate their souls and send them to heaven, where they would instantly attain eternal life, lasting peace, and happiness."--Publisher's website.

Author : Terence O. Ranger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199884056

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Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa by Terence O. Ranger Pdf

In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population. What role has this development of evangelical Christianity played in Africa's democratic history? To what extent do its churches affect its politics? By taking a historical view and focusing specifically on the events of the past few years, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa seeks to explore these questions, offering individual case studies of six countries: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. Unlike most analyses of democracy which come from a secular Western tradition, these contributors, mainly younger scholars based in Africa, bring first-hand knowledge to their chapters and employ both field and archival research to develop their data and analyses. The result is a groundbreaking work that will be indispensable to everyone concerned with the future of this volatile region. Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa is one of four volumes in the series Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South, which seeks to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? At a time when the global-political impact of another revivalist and scriptural religion -- Islam -- fuels vexed debate among analysts the world over, these volumes offer an unusual comparative perspective on a critical issue: the often combustible interaction of resurgent religion and the developing world's unstable politics.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Masiiwa Ragies Gunda ,Lovemore Togarasei
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783863097356

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Religion and Development in Africa by Ezra Chitando,Masiiwa Ragies Gunda ,Lovemore Togarasei Pdf

"What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is "developed", while another community/ country is "under-developed"? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa's own history, including the memory of marginalisation, slavery and exploitation by global powers ensures that virtually every discussion on development is characterised by a lot of emotions and conflicting views. In this volume scholars from various African countries and many different religions and denominations contribute to this debate."--

Author : Niels Kastfelt
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004769105

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Scriptural Politics by Niels Kastfelt Pdf

Author : Henry Okullu
Publisher : Uzima Publishing House
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Church and Politics in East Africa by Henry Okullu Pdf

Author : Bernard Boyo
Publisher : HippoBooks
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839734670

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The Church and Politics by Bernard Boyo Pdf

The Church and Politics offers an introduction to African political theology that is thorough, practical, and deeply powerful. From traditional power structures to the political ramifications of colonialism, Dr. Bernard Boyo provides a foundation for understanding Africa’s contemporary political concerns in their cultural and historical context. Alongside this overview of African political history, Boyo traces the impact of Western missionaries, evangelicals, liberation theology, and African theologians on the church’s understanding of itself and its role within society. This book critiques the emphasis on individual salvation that has so often led the church into abdicating its societal responsibilities and provides an exegetical analysis that firmly roots political engagement within a scriptural framework. The church, we are reminded, has a mandate to bring justice and righteousness into every aspect of human experience. As we follow Christ, it is not just our personal lives that should be transformed but our communities and even our nations.

Author : John Vernon Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1100317662

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Christianity and Politics of Africa by John Vernon Taylor Pdf

Author : Katharina Kunter,Jens Holger Schøjrring
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 3447054514

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Changing Relations Between Churches in Europe and Africa by Katharina Kunter,Jens Holger Schøjrring Pdf

Proceedings from the conference "Changing relationships between churches in Africa and Europe in the 20th century: Christian identity in the times of political crises," which took place October 8-12, 2005 at Makumira University College of Tumaini University in Tanzania.

Author : Humphrey Waweru
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789966040091

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The Bible and African Culture by Humphrey Waweru Pdf

How can African theology survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order? Dr. Humphrey M. Wawe contributes here a sound theological reflection using the hitherto unused methodological paradigm of mapping the inroads in the transaction between the Bible and African culture.

Author : Yokoniah Mvula
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996025464

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Christians in Active Politics by Yokoniah Mvula Pdf

Some Christians may be uncomfortable to think of Jesus as being political, since the word "politics" or "political" has evolved to have negative overtones and connotations in our world today, particularly in Africa, where this monograph from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Malawi has originated. Christians often argue that their commission or job description does not include the political process, which is the way a society conducts its public affairs. However Jesus, beginning with his temptation as in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, showed the people who would follow him what it means to do God's will. The third temptation, conceived of in this study as a political temptation for power, is the rational behind the arguments made in this study, which begins by positing that the message of Jesus was not politically neutral and therefore Christianity, as a super culture must be active in all sectors affecting social concerns, if it is to truly be the change agent who Christ believes it to be. It goes on to define and describe what it means to say that the message of Jesus was political and lays out the biblical, theological, ethical, and experiential rationale for Christians' active participation in the secular political arena.

Author : Abdulkader Tayob,Wolfram Weisse
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 383095719X

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