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Death Rituals among the Karanga of Zimbabwe

Author : John Chitakure
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666730750
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Death Rituals among the Karanga of Zimbabwe written by John Chitakure and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the inescapable truths that humanity has to grapple with is the reality of death. The manner in which we die, or the cause of our death, may differ, but death remains inevitable. We may be afraid of it or not; we may try to evade it, or not, but death still comes. Although most religions promise the possibility of another life in the hereafter, there is no scientifically verifiable evidence about the reality of that life. Despite that lack of evidence, every culture performs death rituals meticulously to prepare the spirits of its deceased for whatever form of life that may be available. Death Rituals among the Karanga of Zimbabwe: Praxis, Significance, and Changes explores the causes of sickness and death, and the praxis of pre-burial, burial, and post-burial rituals of the Karanga of Zimbabwe in an attempt to unearth their original form and significance, to identify the changes that have taken place. It also provides a brief manual for the performance of some selected Karanga death rituals.

Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe

Author : Dr Tabona Shoko
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409477584
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe written by Dr Tabona Shoko and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Zimbabwe in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Author : Esther Mavengano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000899403
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwe in the Post-COVID-19 Era written by Esther Mavengano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has immensely affected all facets of humanity globally. Its impact on Zimbabwe is evident through its effect on socio-economic and education systems, politics, religion, infrastructural development, and health delivery systems. This book provides scholarly introspections into the lessons drawn from the pandemic in an effort to re-imagine the future possibilities of public health in Zimbabwe and beyond. Providing a platform for research that seeks to re-think global public health matters from a Decolonial school of thought, the book asks questions such as: What is the role of religion, linguistics, communication, education, economics, politics, and science in preparing Zimbabwe for possible future pandemics? How can the lessons drawn from the pandemic inform scholars to re-imagine the future trajectories of the country in the various domains? How can researchers evaluate the power and economic dialectics of COVID-19, navigate the tumultuous challenges generated, and come up with appropriate systems for future pandemics? Offering a realistic picture of the post COVID-19 era in Zimbabwe, the book will be a key resource to students and researchers across the fields of political communication, science communication, decolonial discourse, language and culture, as well as African Studies more broadly.

Death and After-life Rituals in the Eyes of the Shona

Author : Canisius Mwandayi
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863090292
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Death and After-life Rituals in the Eyes of the Shona written by Canisius Mwandayi and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bible, Quran, and COVID-19 Vaccines

Author : Kügler, Joachim
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863099303
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Bible, Quran, and COVID-19 Vaccines written by Kügler, Joachim and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riotous Deathscapes

Author : Hugo ka Canham
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024224
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Riotous Deathscapes written by Hugo ka Canham and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpondoland, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the methodologies that have enabled the community’s resilience and survival. He assembles historical events and a cast of ancestral and living characters, following the tenor of village life, to offer a portrait of how Mpondo people live and die in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death. Canham shows that Mpondo theory is grounded in and develops in relation to the natural world, where the river and hill are key sites of being and resistance. Central too, is the interface between ancestors and the living, in which life and death become a continuity and a boundlessness that white supremacy and neoliberalism cannot interdict. By charting a course of black life in Mpondoland, Canham tells a story of blackness on the African continent and beyond. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient

Decolonizing Ecotheology

Author : S. Lily Mendoza
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725286424
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Ecotheology written by S. Lily Mendoza and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges is a pioneering attempt to contest the politics of conquest, commodification, and homogenization in mainstream ecotheology, informed by the voices of Indigenous and subaltern communities from around the world. The book marshals a robust polyphony of reportage, wonder, analysis, and acumen seeking to open the door to a different prospect for a planet under grave duress and a different self-assessment for our own species in the mix. At the heart of that prospect is an embrace of soils and waters as commons and a privileging of subaltern experience and marginalized witness as the bellwethers of greatest import. Of course, decolonization finds its ultimate test in the actual return of land and waters to precontact Indigenous who yet have feet on the ground or paddles in the waves, and who conjure dignity and vision in the manifold of their relations, in spite of ceaseless onslaught and dismissal. Their courage is the haunt these pages hallow like an Abel never entirely erased from the history. May the moaning stop and the re-creation begin!

Harare North

Author : Brian Chikwava
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409076458
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Harare North written by Brian Chikwava and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi. He ends up in Shingi's Brixton squat where the inhabitants function at various levels of desperation. Shingi struggles to find meaningful work and to meet the demands of his family back home; Tsitsi makes a living renting her baby out to women defrauding the Social Services. As our narrator struggles to make his way in 'Harare North', negotiating life outside the legal economy and battling with the weight of what he has left behind in strife-torn Zimbabwe, every expectation and preconception is turned on its head. This is the story of a stranger in a strange land - one of the thousands of illegal immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide.

Death and Burial Among the Shona

Author : Berry Muchemwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Death and Burial Among the Shona written by Berry Muchemwa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thicker Than Water

Author : Melissa Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135342075
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Thicker Than Water written by Melissa Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood is more than a fluid solution of cells, platelets and plasma. It is a symbol for the most basic of human concerns--life, death and family find expression in rituals surrounding everything from menstruation to human sacrifice. Comprehensive in its scope and provocative in its argument, this book examines beliefs and rituals concerning blood in a range of regional and religious contexts throughout human history. Meyer reveals the origins of a wide range of blood rituals, from the earliest surviving human symbolism of fertility and the hunt, to the Jewish bris, and the clitoridectomies given to young girls in parts of Africa. The book also explores how cultural practices influence gene selection and makes a connection with the natural sciences by exploring how color perception influences the human proclivity to create blood symbols and rituals.

The Shona Peoples

Author : M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Shona Peoples written by M. F. C. Bourdillon and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cattle and People

Author : Catarina Ginja
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1948488744
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Cattle and People written by Catarina Ginja and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains and use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combination of these approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is also featured. Author Interview

Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Author : Erasmus Masitera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135106648X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe written by Erasmus Masitera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of ‘failed states’, the world over. Zimbabwean society was and is still confronted with different challenges which include political, economic and social problems. Attempts to overcome these challenges have thrown light on the power that rests within individuals and or groups to change and even revolutionize their localities, communities, states and ultimately the world at large. Through experience, individuals and groups have promoted ideas that have aided in changing mentalities, attitudes and behaviors in societies at different levels. This book brings together contributors from various academic disciplines to reflect on and theorize the contours of power, including the intrinsic and or extrinsic models of power, which pertain to individuals, communities, and or groups in order to transform society. Reflections are on various groups such as political movements, environmental movements, religious groups, advocacy groups, gender groups, to mention but a few, as they struggle against marginalization, discrimination, exploitation, and other forms of oppression showing their agency or compliance.

World Christianity in Local Context

Author : Stephen R. Goodwin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144110738X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book World Christianity in Local Context written by Stephen R. Goodwin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Christianity in Local Context is the first volume of a unique collection of essays in honour of David A. Kerr, well-known for his contributions in the areas of Christian-Muslim dialogue, Ecumenical Studies and Missions. With contributions from recognized experts in these fields, the book provides a platform for examining contemporary Christian-Muslim relations and critical issues facing twenty-first century Christianity. In Volume 1, scholars and Church leaders offer insights into current trends in Local Theology and Missions from the contexts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

Religion, Law and Security in Africa

Author : M Christian Green
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928314422
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Law and Security in Africa written by M Christian Green and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security is a key topic of our time. But how do we understand it? Do law and religion take different views of it? In this fifth volume in the Law and Religion in Africa series, radicalisation, terrorism, blasphemy, hate speech, religious freedom and just war theories rub shoulders with issues of witchcraft, female genital mutilation circumcision, child marriage, displaced communities and additional issues besides. This unique collection of topics is both challenging and inspiring, providing illumination in troubled times, and forming a sound foundation for future scholarship.

Managing Death: International Perspectives

Author : Gerry R. Cox
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031055594
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Managing Death: International Perspectives written by Gerry R. Cox and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a huge collection of literature relating to death, grief and bereavement, but one aspect that has received relatively little attention is that of death management practices (by which we mean the various ways of managing the circumstances of the death, ritually acknowledging it and sensitively handling the disposal of the body and so on). While ways of disposing of the dead and grief practices have been thought of as based upon individual responses, grief and bereavement practices can be understood not only by looking at psychological and medical frameworks, but also by examining people as part of a complex structure of social arrangements, institutions, structures, and patterns. By examining the social and institutional structures of various groups around the world, we provide an international framework for a better understanding of the study of dying, death, and bereavement. This book highlights the significance of these matters in an international context, reflecting common themes and important differences. It will highlight common themes across diverse cultures and national settings, while also drawing attention to significant differences. If professionals working in the field of death, grief and bereavement are not aware of such differences, their practice can be insensitive, discriminatory and therefore ineffective, if not actually counterproductive. As such, the book provides an invaluable resource for a wide variety of professionals and students, including medicine and health care; social work; counselling and psychotherapy; chaplaincy and pastoral work; and, of course, those involved in the funeral industry. In addition, students of sociology, psychology and anthropology will find much of interest here in terms of appreciating the diversity of ways in which funerals and other death management practices are managed and integrated into social life.

Archaeology of Religion

Author : Sharon R. Steadman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315433877
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Religion written by Sharon R. Steadman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steadman fills an empty niche in the offerings on how archaeology interprets past religions with this useful textbook. The book includes case studies from around the world, from the study of Upper Paleolithic religions and of shamans in foraging societies to formal religious structures in advanced complex societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and the Andes. Steadman also includes key contemporary religions—Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, among others—to provide an historical and comparative context. This is an ideal text for a archaeology of religion courses and classes that include a significant component on “past religions,” as well as an excellent guide for general readers.