Religious Change Among Bemba Speaking Women Of Zambia
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Bemba Speaking Women Of Zambia In A Century Of Religious Change
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Author : Hugo F. Hinfelaar
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1994
Bemba Speaking Women Of Zambia In A Century Of Religious Change written by Hugo F. Hinfelaar and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Religion categories.
This book constitutes an important contribution to the study of religion in Africa as it traces the often painful changes that occurred among the Bemba-speaking women of Zambia since the arrival of the Western Missionaries. The author offers us his life-long search for the bed-rock of traditional religion as a basis for genuine cultural/religious development.
Religious Change Among Bemba Speaking Women Of Zambia
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Author : Hugo F. Hinfelaar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Religious Change Among Bemba Speaking Women Of Zambia written by Hugo F. Hinfelaar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Bemba (African people) categories.
Gender Epistemologies In Africa
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Author : O. Oyewumi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-01-03
Gender Epistemologies In Africa written by O. Oyewumi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-03 with Social Science categories.
This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.
Church And State In Tanzania
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Author : Ludwig
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-09-29
Church And State In Tanzania written by Ludwig and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-29 with Architecture categories.
Based on interviews and archival material, this volume examines the different periods in the relationship between church and state in Tanzania from independence to 1994.
Cultural Conversions
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Author : Heather J. Sharkey
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-29
Cultural Conversions written by Heather J. Sharkey and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Social Science categories.
The essays in this volume study cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both Catholic and Protestant missionaries effected changes that often went beyond what they had intended, sometimes backfiring against the missions. These changes entailed wrenching political struggles to redefine families, communities, and lines of authority. This volume’s contributors examine the meanings of "conversion" for individuals and communities in light of loyalties and cultural traditions, and consider how conversion, as a process, was often ambiguous. The history of Christian missions emerges from these pages as an integral part of world history that has stretched beyond professing Christians to affect the lives of peoples who have consciously rejected or remained largely unaware of missionary appeals.
Some Spirits Heal Others Only Dance
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Author : Roy Willis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Some Spirits Heal Others Only Dance written by Roy Willis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Social Science categories.
Where does 'the self' in 'myself' begin and end? And what do ideas of 'spirit' tell us about the nature of human selfhood? To investigate these poorly understood matters, veteran anthropologist, neo-shaman and paranormal healer Roy Willis spent five months in a remote part of northern Zambia exploring human consciousness in a fascinating and sometimes terrifying series of adventures. This absorbing book tells the story of Willis' and his three local colleagues' quest, as they participate in and film rituals of ecstatic union with nature spirits and talk in depth with experts in managing the awesome powers of a world beyond the ordinary. The narrative follows the research team's day-to-day involvement with rituals of spirit revelation, healing, and exorcism, their encounters with the evil powers of sorcery, and the sometimes troubled relations between team members. The African healers in this book emerge both as exceptional individuals and as pioneering explorers of consciousness. Their experience is surprisingly congruent with our present sense of multiple and shifting selfhoods in the age of global electronic communication.
The Origins Of The New Churches Movement In Southern Ethiopia 1927 1944
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Author : Fargher
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-09-20
The Origins Of The New Churches Movement In Southern Ethiopia 1927 1944 written by Fargher and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Architecture categories.
The book examines the missionary-evangelists' side of establishing non-Orthodox ecclesial communities in three major ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia between 1927-1944. The Kale Heywat Church, an association of almost 3600 congregations is the strongest confirmation of the movement's success.
Ancestors Power And History In Madagascar
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Author : Karen Middleton
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Ancestors Power And History In Madagascar written by Karen Middleton and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Religion categories.
This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and emerging identities in Madagascar.
Invisible Agents
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Author : David M. Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-26
Invisible Agents written by David M. Gordon and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-26 with History categories.
Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits as exerting power in the visible world, these beliefs form the basis for individual and collective actions. Focusing on the history of the south-central African country of Zambia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his analysis invites reflection on political and religious realms of action in other parts of the world, and complicates the post-Enlightenment divide of sacred and profane. The book combines theoretical insights with attention to local detail and remarkable historical sweep, from oral narratives communicated across slave-trading routes during the nineteenth century, through the violent conflicts inspired by Christian and nationalist prophets during colonial times, and ending with the spirits of Pentecostal rebirth during the neoliberal order of the late twentieth century. To gain access to the details of historical change and personal spiritual beliefs across this long historical period, Gordon employs all the tools of the African historian. His own interviews and extensive fieldwork experience in Zambia provide texture and understanding to the narrative. He also critically interprets a diverse range of other sources, including oral traditions, fieldnotes of anthropologists, missionary writings and correspondence, unpublished state records, vernacular publications, and Zambian newspapers. Invisible Agents will challenge scholars and students alike to think in new ways about the political imagination and the invisible sources of human action and historical change.
Religiosity In African Christian Churches
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Author : C. Mutale
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2022-04-22
Religiosity In African Christian Churches written by C. Mutale and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-22 with Religion categories.
In this book Tresphor Mutale critically examines contemporary African Christianity through the leadership from prophets, men of God, pastors, seers and more. The book looks at the rationality of apparently irrational religious expressions and experiences in the name of religion. It analyses the irrationalities using the spectacles of African Traditional Religions (ATR), especially with respect to the importance of rituals. From the vantage point of rituals, there is sense in nonsense, and some of the irrational religious expressions being experienced today become rational. The book raises the aspect of authority of ritual leadership in ATR and how this symbol holds authority in Christianity today and how it has power to influence believers. Mutale argues that African Christianity and how it is experienced today point to the deeper influence of African Traditional Religions. The book provokes many questions about the power of African symbolisms, their application in Christianity and how Christianity through the lenses of African Traditional Religions is able to relate and influence other areas of society like, economics, politics and sociality. The book draws on and enriches perspectives on religion and religiosity with the depth of Mutale's ability to bring into conversation anthropological, philosophical, sociological and theological approaches.