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Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789054480372
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Modernity on a Shoestring written by Richard Fardon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. (Richard); Van Binsbergen Fardon (W. (Wim); Van Dijk, R. (Rijk))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Modernity on a Shoestring written by R. (Richard); Van Binsbergen Fardon (W. (Wim); Van Dijk, R. (Rijk)) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modernity on a Shoestring written by Richard Fardon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Osha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137446935
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book African Postcolonial Modernity written by S. Osha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.
Author : Hermen Kroesbergen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630871354
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book In Search of Health and Wealth written by Hermen Kroesbergen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prosperity gospel is very influential in Africa, in Pentecostal churches, and in Reformed churches. But what is the prosperity gospel? Where did it originate? Is it biblically sound? How should we evaluate the prosperity gospel? Does it represent a wrong way of looking for health and wealth, or can we learn something from it? In this book the authors provide an analysis from different perspectives on the highly debated topic of the prosperity gospel. It is intended to be accessible and helpful both to academic colleagues and to ordinary ministers. Most of the authors are lecturers at Justo Mwale Theological University College in Lusaka (Zambia). Together with Prof. L. Togarasei from the University of Botswana, they use their theological skills to examine and assess this important topic from an African and Reformed perspective. The articles in this book will help anyone who wants to deeply explore and evaluate the intriguing phenomenon of the prosperity gospel in Africa.
Author : Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459253
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Social Security in Religious Networks written by Carolin Leutloff-Grandits and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decades, the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a new source of insecurity. Furthermore, the state’s withdrawal from providing social security is taking place throughout the world. One response to these developments has been increased migration, which poses further challenges to kinship-based social support systems. This innovative volume focuses on the ambiguous role of religious networks in social security and traces the interrelatedness of religious networks and state and family support systems. Particularly timely, it describes these challenges as well as social security arrangements in the context of globalization and migration. The wide range of case studies from various parts of the world that examine various religious groups offers an important comparative contribution to the understanding of religious networks as providers of social security.
Author : Nkwi, Walter Gam
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956762725
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book African Modernities and Mobilities written by Nkwi, Walter Gam and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Walter Gam Nkwi documents the complexities and nuances embedded in African modernities and mobilities which have been overlooked in historical discourses in Africa and Cameroon. Using an ethnographic historical approach and drawing on the intricacies of what it has meant to be and belong in Kom- an ethnic community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon - since 1800, he explores the discourses and practices of kfaang as central to any understanding of mobility and modernity in Kom, Cameroon and Africa at large. The book unveils the emic understanding of modernity through the history and ethnography of kfaang and its technologies and illustrates how these terminologies were conceived and perceived by the Kom people in their social and physical mobilities. It documents and analyzes the historical processes involved in bringing about and making kfaang a defining feature of everyday life in Kom and among Kom subjects.
Author : Ben Fine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136214526
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The World of Consumption written by Ben Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this comprehensively updated and revised new edition, traditional approaches as well as the most recent literature are fully addressed and incorporated, with wide reference to theoretical and empirical work. Fine's refreshing and authoritative text includes a critical examination of such themes as: * economics imperialism and globalization * the world of commodities * systems of provision and culture * the consumer society * public consumption. This book presents an updated analysis of the cluttered landscape of studies of consumption that will make it required reading for students from a wide range of backgrounds including political economy, history and social science courses generally.
Author : N. Amanze
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 999606039X
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 1 written by N. Amanze and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development Southern African Perspectives." The theme of the conference was adopted in order to underline the importance and significance of religion in the socio-economic development of people in the world generally and in Southern and Central Africa in particular. The papers in the book are divided into two volumes. Volume one consists of papers which directly discuss religion and development in one form or another. The second volume contains papers that discuss religion and other pertinent issues related to development. The papers are grouped into sub-themes for ease of reference. These include Citizenship and Development, Migration and Development, Disability and Development, Pentecostal Churches and Development and Religion and Society. All in all, despite a divergence of sub-themes in volume two, all point to issues to do with the role of religion in development in Southern and Central Africa today.
Author : Juliette Koning
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811029695
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book New Religiosities, Modern Capitalism, and Moral Complexities in Southeast Asia written by Juliette Koning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Southeast Asia experiences unprecedented economic modernization, religious and moral practices are being challenged as never before. From Thai casinos to Singaporean megachurches, from the practitioners of Islamic Finance in Jakarta to Pentecostal Christians in rural Cambodia, this volume discusses the moral complexities that arise when religious and economic developments converge. In the past few decades, Southeast Asia has seen growing religious pluralism and antagonisms as well as the penetration of a market economy and economic liberalism. Providing a multidisciplinary, cross-regional snapshot of a region in the midst of profound change, this text is a key read for scholars of religion, economists, non-governmental organization workers, and think-tankers across the region.
Author : Dmitri Van Den Bersselaar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004160914
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The King of Drinks written by Dmitri Van Den Bersselaar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a focus on the trajectory of commoditisation of gin in West Africa, this book investigates how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. It shows that local consumers, not foreign advertisers, produced the importance of schnapps gin for African ritual
Author : Thera Rasing
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825856113
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Bush Burnt, the Stones Remain written by Thera Rasing and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretation of female initiation rites among Christian women in contemporary urban Zambia. These rites are examined in the context of socio-economic changes. The emphasis is on ethnographic data gathered in the field.
Author : Henrietta Mambo Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956616311
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)
Download or read book We Get Nothing from Fishing written by Henrietta Mambo Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Henrietta Nyamnjoh must be highly commended for her initiative and courage to tackle in-depth research into the hazardous and largely unpredictable reality of boat migration, with a view to erasing existing misconceptions, false and partial explanations, and to enhancing our understanding. This is an original and innovative piece of work -well- written and well-argued. It certainly deserves a wide readership even beyond the normal academic and policy-making circles." --Book Jacket.
Author : Setha Low
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317296974
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City written by Setha Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an ‘engaged’ approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, with a particular focus on those of high public interest. Topics covered include security, displacement, social justice, privatisation, sustainability, and preservation. Offering valuable insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and then address a variety of urban issues, each chapter covers key theoretical and methodological concerns alongside rich ethnographic case study material. The volume is an essential reference for students and researchers in urban anthropology, as well as of interest for those in related disciplines, such as urban studies, sociology, and geography.
Author : David Garbin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350152137
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa written by David Garbin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa.
Author : Rijk van Dijk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004492208
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Mobile Africa written by Rijk van Dijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three sets of issues are being discussed. First, the concept of mobility itself is considered and how it is conceived of in distinction from sedentarity. Second, which forms of mobility can be distinguished, not only from the perspective of Western social sciences, but also from the perspective of people's own experiences, ideas, notions, etc? Social science in Africa has particularly focused on rural-urban migration, but it is clear that there are many other forms as well. Third, the concept of mobility concerns not only geographical space, but there are other 'spaces' to consider as well. In addition to 'forms of mobility' there is a 'mobility of forms' in which the perception of those other spaces plays a crucial role. In short, the book intends to turn the whole notion of mobility as a supposedly rupturing phenomenon on its head, emphasizing that rather through travelling connections are established and continuity is experienced. We are challenged to delve into the traveller's mind, to think and follow their multi-spatial livelihoods and to explore what it means to people if they move in a variety of spaces.
Author : Ukpokolo, Chinyere
Publisher : Spears Media Press
ISBN 13 : 1942876076
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Being and Becoming written by Ukpokolo, Chinyere and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape people's identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on the way men and women define themselves and are defined by diverse peoples and cultures across time and space in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussions presented in this anthology primarily focus on 'being' as 'a state' or 'condition', defined by sex identity, and how this identity shifts, and hence 'becoming', assuming diverse meanings in disparate societies, contexts, and time. The discourse, therefore, moves from how the perception of the self in cultural and historical contexts has informed actions and at some other times shaped interpretations given to historical facts, to how changing economic realities also shape the definitions and constructions of social and relational issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. The historical trajectories of Islamic religion, colonialism and Christian missionary activities in sub-Saharan Africa have shaped the worlds of the peoples of the region and impacted on gender relations.
