Christians And Churches Of Africa Envisioning The Future
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Christians And Churches Of Africa Envisioning The Future
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Author : Kä Mana
language : en
Publisher: Ocms
Release Date : 2002
Christians And Churches Of Africa Envisioning The Future written by Kä Mana and has been published by Ocms this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Christian sociology categories.
Christians And Churches Of Africa
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Author : Kä Mana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Christians And Churches Of Africa written by Kä Mana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) From the earliest attempts to structure and organize human settlements in the image of divine, cosmic, or an ideal social order, the notion of urban design has deep historical roots. Down the ages, the design of cities has reflected edicts prescribed by the highest authorities, including priests, rulers, philosophers, and visionary thinkers. Many dynasties sought glory and fame in the design of their cities and--even in modern times--new cities have been designed and built as icons of independence and as symbols of progress. Thus, city design has played a crucial role in the construction of new capitals like Brasilia, Chandigarh, and Islamabad, and--more recently--in the dizzying new urban developments of Dubai and Shanghai. In common parlance, urban design means the appearance, layout, and organization of the built form of large-scale urban environments. Urban design also implies a deliberate process to create functional, efficient, just, and aesthetically appealing urban spaces. Accordingly, as the editor of this new Routledge collection explains, ''design'' is used simultaneously as both noun and verb, and the literature on urban design reflects this parallel possibility. As a noun, urban design is an object of historical, critical, comparative commentaries on the circumstances, values, and processes that lead to a particular urban design outcome and its human consequences. Scholarship here is critical and reflective of the past outcomes, and normative about future possibilities. The other literature that focuses on design as a process tends to emphasize the practice, methods, and the institutional frameworks that guide urban design and influence its outcome. While the former includes writings from social sciences and the humanities, the latter are drawn primarily from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. In the realm of practice, these three professions--architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning--claim expertise and authority over the scope of urban design. While architects tend to focus on the design of the collective architectural forms of the built environment, landscape architects are apt to emphasize the form and processes of the natural environment, and nature more generally, in the design of large-scale built environments. Urban planners typically consider themselves responsible for defining the social, economic, and political imperatives of city design. Although the professional identity of urban design by and large remains a shared enterprise, there is a growing sense that urban design has established an autonomous identity as body of knowledge. The scholarship pertaining to the appearance and design of cities, and the human consequences of the built environment has proliferated in recent years, not only within the professions but also in the disciplines of the social sciences, the humanities, and the environmental science and health fields. This scholarly enterprise includes critical, interpretive, and reflective work on the one hand, but also empirical findings about the nature of practice and human consequences of the built environment, on the other. This new collection from Routledge''s Critical Concepts in Urban Studies series answers the urgent need for an authoritative reference work to help researchers and students navigate and make sense of this huge, rapidly growing, and complex corpus of literature. Moreover, the compilation reflects the many and varied sources of knowledge and influence: these expertly compiled major works chart, organize, and order not only the best output of academics and practitioners of urban design, but also include key writings on cities and urbanism from thinkers across the social sciences and humanities, and from other allied disciplinary traditions. With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Urban Design is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also facilitate rapid access to less familiar--and sometimes overlooked--texts. For researchers, students, practitioners, and policy-makers, it is an indispensable one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
Christians And Churches Of Africa Envisioning The Future
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Author : Kä Mana
language : en
Publisher: OCMS
Release Date : 2002
Christians And Churches Of Africa Envisioning The Future written by Kä Mana and has been published by OCMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Africa categories.
The Church And The Future Of Africa
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Author : J. N. Kanyua Mugambi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Church And The Future Of Africa written by J. N. Kanyua Mugambi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Religion categories.
Small Christian Communities
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Author : Robert S. Pelton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Small Christian Communities written by Robert S. Pelton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The editor of this collection is a member of the ETHS class of 1939.
Theology And The Post Apartheid Condition
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Author : Rian Venter
language : en
Publisher: UJ Press
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Theology And The Post Apartheid Condition written by Rian Venter and has been published by UJ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Religion categories.
Knowledge transmission and generation belong to the core mission of the public university. In democratic South Africa, the transformation of these processes and practices in higher education has become an urgent and contested task. The Faculty of Theology at the University of the Free State has already done some original work on the implications of these for theology. One area of investigation that has not yet received due attention concerns the role of theological disciplines, and especially the relation between academic disciplines and societal dynamics. This research project addresses the challenge and this volume reflects the intellectual endeavour of lectures, research fellows and a post-graduate student associated with the faculty. Each theological discipline has its own history and has already experienced reconstruction, both globally and in South Africa. Some of these genealogical developments and re-envisioning are mapped by the contributions in this volume. The critical questions addressed are: what are the contours of the (post)apartheid condition and what are the implications for responsible disciplinary practices in theology? The chapters convey an impression of the vitality of theology at the University of the Free State and in South Africa and give expression to fundamental shifts that have taken place in theological disciplines, and also of future tasks. This research project aims to stimulate reflection on responsible and innovative disciplinary practices of theology in South Africa, which, we envisage, will contribute to social justice and human flourishing. -Rian Venter, University of the Free State
The Churches Of Africa
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Author : Claude Geffré
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Churches Of Africa written by Claude Geffré and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Religion categories.
A Future For Africa
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Author : Emmanuel M. Katongole
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-05-09
A Future For Africa written by Emmanuel M. Katongole and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Religion categories.
Civil war, famine, genocide, AIDS--the peoples of Africa have endured horrific human tragedies. Those crises plus widespread economic, political, and social instability have combined to produce what some consider a dire and nearly hopeless situation. Even as this book was going to press, the leaders of the G-8 nations were meeting to talk about what could be done to "aid Africa" in these critical times. A careful look at history would indicate that the answer must come from within Africa and from the African people themselves, not from other nations or the economic programs and solutions they propose. The rapid rise of a Christian social ethics movement as an alternative perspective focused precisely on addressing Africa's challenges using the spiritual resources of its own people is providing a hopeful solution and a timely and powerful coping mechanism for African peoples. One of the leaders of this movement is Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest from Uganda. In A Future for Africa, Katongole wrestles with concrete problems like the AIDS epidemic and widespread military conflicts, as well as fundamental, systemic ones, like poverty, corruption, and tribalism. He then offers faith-filled solutions based on the power and example of Christian community and Christian moral imagination. Katongole's radical message is that a political ethic based on Christian principles as taught in the Scriptures is the necessary foundation for healing, reconciliation, and rebuilding the continent.
Born From Lament
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Author : Emmanuel Katongole
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-25
Born From Lament written by Emmanuel Katongole and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with Religion categories.
There is no more urgent theological task than to provide an account of hope in Africa, given its endless cycles of violence, war, poverty, and displacement. So claims Emmanuel Katongole, an innovative theological voice from Africa. In the midst of suffering, Katongole says, hope takes the form of "arguing" and "wrestling" with God. Such lament is not merely a cry of pain—it is a way of mourning, protesting, and appealing to God. As he unpacks the rich theological and social dimensions of the practice of lament in Africa, Katongole tells the stories of courageous Christian activists working for change in East Africa and invites readers to enter into lament along with them.
Christian Reflection In Africa
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Author : Paul Bowers
language : en
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Christian Reflection In Africa written by Paul Bowers and has been published by Langham Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Religion categories.
This reference collection presents academic reviews of more than twelve-hundred contemporary Africa-related publications relevant for informed Christian reflection in and about Africa. The collection is based on the review journal BookNotes for Africa, a specialist resource dedicated to bringing to notice such publications, and furnishing them with a one-paragraph description and evaluation. Now assembled here for the first time is the entire collection of reviews through the first thirty issues of the journal’s history. The core intention, both of the journal and of this compilation, is to encourage and to facilitate informed Christian reflection and engagement in Africa, through a thoughtful encounter with the published intellectual life of the continent. Reviews have been provided by a team of more than one hundred contributors drawn from throughout Africa and overseas. The books and other media selected for review represent a broad cross-section of interests and issues, of personalities and interpretations, including the secular as well as the religious. The collection will be of special interest to academic scholars, theological educators, libraries, ministry leaders, and specialist researchers in Africa and throughout the world, but will also engage any reader looking for a convenient resource relating to modern Africa and Christian presence there.