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Author : Michael Gelfand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Mashona
ISBN : UVA:X000034991
Author : Nyoni, Bednicho
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783863096649
"Western neglecting traditional religion is an important factor for the failure of many developmental strategies towards Africa. Therefore, religion(s) of the indigenous peoples must be given the neccesary attention. The book presents the example of the Shona religion playing a critical role in the life of the Zimbabweans. If incorporated, it will contribute to the better success of development initiatives." --back cover
Author : M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000004182486
Newly reissued, this book is still regarded as one of the best synthesis of ethnographic research undertaken amongst the Shona people, taking indigenous religion and culture as a starting point. The author, a renowned anthropologist and sociologist of Zimbabwe, examines the historical background and sources of Shona history from the fifteenth century. He details, from anthropological perspectives, kinship and village organisation including patrilineal kinship, Shona marriage and the position of women in Shona society. The author explores the subsistence and cash economies of the Shona peoples, their contribution to commercial farming, their use of land, and their function as a migrant labour force. Further sections focus on chiefship, courts; and interpretations of sickness, personal misfortune, witchcraft, death and the afterlife. The final sections of the book consider the functions of traditional religion at family and tribal levels; the interface between traditional and new religions; and rural and urban influences, amongst the Shona people.
Author : Marshall W. Murphree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Shona (African people)
ISBN : UOM:39015028803792
Author : Canisius Mwandayi
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Shona (African people)
ISBN : 9783863090296
Author : Hubert Bucher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015046849835
This book is about Shona cosmology. The author suggests that for the full impact of Christianity to be enjoyed by African peoples, there must be a confrontation between Christianity and the fundamental features of traditional cosmologies. The first five chapters of the book undertake to expose power as the root concept of the traditional religion of the Shona in Zimbabwe. The various spirits, upon whose actions the Shona believe that their life and well-being depend, are seen as symbolic representations, or conceptualizations, of those manifestations of 'power' which are looming large in their daily lives. In the rest of the book the author shows that this traditional conceptualization of spirits plays a central role also in the Shona 'Churches of the Spirit', which form an important branch among Independent Churches in Zimbabwe.
Author : Tabona Shoko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317109631
Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions. Analysing the traditional Karanga views of the causes of illness and disease, mechanisms of diagnosis at their disposal and the methods they use to restore health, Shoko discusses the views of a specific African Independent Church of the Apostolic tradition. The conclusion Shoko reaches about the central religious concerns of the Karanga people is derived from detailed field research consisting of interviews and participant observation. This book testifies that the centrality of health and well-being is not only confined to traditional religion but reflects its adaptive potential in new religious systems manifest in the phenomenon of Independent Churches. Rather than succumbing to the folly of static generalizations, Tabona Shoko offers important insights into a particular society upon which theories can be reassessed, adding new dimensions to modern features of the religious scene in Africa.
Author : Israel Kamudzandu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004181649
Drawing on the ideology of the Augustan era of constructing ancestors, this book is about Paul's creative construction of Abraham as a spiritual ancestor of "all" people who have the faith of Abraham and Sarah. The book breaks new accademic grounds on the value of ancestors in a 21st century global Christian world.
Author : Michael Gelfand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Mashona
ISBN : UOM:39015003350447
Study of the religion of the Shona with special reference to the Makorekore section of Rhodesia.
Author : Laurenti Magesa
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608332083
Describes the moral teachings (values, norms and principles to follow so that life might be abundant for all) of the African religion as it relates to individuals and community.
Author : Kudzai Biri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3863097149
The study investigates the resilience of Shona religion and culture among ZAOGA Pentecostal Christians. It endeavours to establish whether the Pentecostal Christians in Zimbabwe, through a case study of ZAOGA, have embraced aspects of Shona traditional religion and culture. Through an application of phenomenological-comparative approach as well as fieldwork, the study confirms continuity, change and adaptation of indigenous beliefs and practices in a contemporary Pentecostal movement. Whereas the Pentecostal ideology suggests that 'old things' have passed away, it appears that 'old things' continue to have significance for the 'new'. It 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 poor imitation and parroting of theological constructions from North America. Although Ezekiel Guti (the founder and central figure in the study) does appropriate ideas and concepts from North American Pentecostalism, he displays remarkable sensitivity to Shona religion and culture. In order to meet the requirements and purpose of this study, themes have been selected on the basis of their degree of comparison. These themes are; words spoken prior to/on death bed, belief in avenging spirits, the role, status and significance of women, belief in unnatural events, belief in witches and witchcraft, liturgy and salvation. The study narrowed down to an officially structured organized whole in order to give a deeper understanding of the orientation of ZAOGA. An African womanist is framework is adapted to challenge ZAOGA to promote the well-being of women. The resilience of Shona religion and culture, serve to fill the gap of published material on the Shona and Pentecostalism, breaking new ground by exploring Shona religious and cultural aspects that have displayed remarkable resilience within the Pentecostal fraternity. My 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.
Author : Paradzayi David Mubvumbi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1937064441
When Christianity came to Zimbabwe during the 16th century, it was treated by the local people as a western or white man's religion. The reason why it was known as western is because most of the missionaries came from the western countries like America, Great Britain, Portugal, and Italy and later on from New Zealand and Australia. All these missionaries were white. Although there were semblances of similarities between the two religions, Christianity's acceptability was initially confined to mostly women who were easily converted. Men could not be converted easily because they were suspicious of this foreign religion, they thought that it was going to disrupt their traditional religions, cultures, beliefs and values and that they were the custodians of traditional rites. The reason why the local people strongly supported their own religion as opposed to Christianity was that they saw themselves as inheritors of ancestral thinking, beliefs, and experiences. This was a religion started by their forefathers. Missionaries thus had to work hard to convince the local people that Christianity was not destructive or obstructive according to their thinking but an addition to their spirituality. The natives or local people believed that they were better worshipers than these foreigners, because they could not fully understand Christianity which to them was complicated especially when the Son of God was said to have been killed by human beings.This books presents a study of Christianity as it relates to the native religions.
Author : Olga Sicilia
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781599427119
This work focuses on contemporary Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture - widely known until the early 1990s as "Shona Sculpture" - from the perspective of a critical anthropological analysis of cultural identity and representation. The analysis frames the inception of this art movement within the colonial socio-historical circumstances of its genesis, where discourse about the producers of this art form ("Shona discourse") was created. Drawing from the social context of inequality and racial (spatial) segregation, and from the concepts of the "primitive" in art and anthropology, the author aims to show how "Shona discourse" entails a primitivist construction of the Other (i.e., the sculptors' cultural identity) that is directly linked to modernist primitivism. "Shona discourse," as a temporalising discourse, situates the producers of so-called "Shona sculpture" in an extra-ordinary time, the time of "primitive" myth, magic and cosmology, constituting in this sense a good example of "allochronic" discourse. Originating within the colonial politics and ideology of the 1960s, and contested by younger generations of sculptors from the 1990s onwards, this discourse was, paradoxically, appropriated by the cultural politics of "indigenisation" during the early period of the post-independence Zimbabwean State as part of its national identity and heritage.
Author : Molefi Kete Asante,Ama Mazama
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506317861
"Numerous titles focusing on particular beliefs in Africa exist, including Marcel Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmeli, but this one presents an unparallelled exploration of a multitude of cultures and experiences. It is both a gateway to deeper exploration and a penetrating resource on its own. This is bound to become the definitive scholarly resource on African religions." — Library Journal, Starred Review "Overall, because of its singular focus, reliability, and scope, this encyclopedia will prove invaluable where there is considerable interest in Africa or in different religious traditions." –Library Journal As the first comprehensive work to assemble ideas, concepts, discourses, and extensive essays in this vital area, the Encyclopedia of African Religion explores such topics as deities and divinities, the nature of humanity, the end of life, the conquest of fear, and the quest for attainment of harmony with nature and other humans. Editors Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama include nearly 500 entries that seek to rediscover the original beauty and majesty of African religion. Features · Offers the best representation to date of the African response to the sacred · Helps readers grasp the enormity of Africa's contribution to religious ideas by presenting richly textured concepts of spirituality, ritual, and initiation while simultaneously advancing new theological categories, cosmological narratives, and ways to conceptualize ethical behavior · Provides readers with new metaphors, figures of speech, modes of reasoning, etymologies, analogies, and cosmogonies · Reveals the complexity, texture, and rhythms of the African religious tradition to provide scholars with a baseline for future works The Encyclopedia of African Religion is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in fields such as Religion, Africana Studies, Sociology, and Philosophy.
Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317184218
The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. The book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Religions; Indigenous Thought and Spirituality; and Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa. This book is to his honour and marks his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.
