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Author : F. Constantin
Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782865377527
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Religion et transition démocratique en Afrique written by F. Constantin and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-François Bayart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religion et modernité politique en Afrique noire written by Jean-François Bayart and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les différentes représentations religieuses - chrétiennes, mais aussi islamiques, "indépendantes" ou autochtones - sont mises en service de stratégies sociales et politiques diverses, c'est-à-dire contradictoires. Le propos de ce livre est de montrer l'usage politique différencié que des acteurs précisément identifiables font des représentations religieuses.
Author : Serge Gougbèmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782367170909
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Vers une démocratie interculturelle en Afrique ? written by Serge Gougbèmon and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'Afrique est confrontée aux questions fondamentales de la réconciliation, de la justice et de la paix. Certains pays comme l'Afrique du Sud en ont une expérience ancienne, qui aura servi de "matrice" à bien d'autres tentatives de mise en place de formes de justice transitionnelle, que nous avons approchées, chemin faisant : commission "vérité et réconciliation" au Togo, tribunaux Gacaca au Rwanda, etc. Comment fabriquer un monde nouveau dans des pays en crise, désireux ou ayant à effectuer une transition démocratique ? Cet ouvrage apporte trois éclairages : - justice et transition démocratique ; - justice, cultures et universalité ; - justice et charité : l'apport du christianisme et des autres religions. Il souhaite, par ses réflexions, apporter des repères pour penser le monde autrement et agir au quotidien avec plus de pertinence.
Author : Joram Tarusarira
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000172376
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa written by Joram Tarusarira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on major themes present at the interface between religion and human security in Africa. It probes the extent to which religion is both a threat to and a resource for human security in Africa by examining specific issues occurring across the continent. A team of contributors from across Africa provide valuable reflections on the conceptualisation and applicability of the concept of human security in the context of religion in Africa. Chapters highlight how themes such as knowledge systems, youth, education, race, development, sacred texts, the media, sexual diversity, health and others have implications for individual and group security. In order to bring these themes into perspective, chapters in the first section reflect on the conceptual, historical and contextual factors at play. The chapters that follow demonstrate the theories put forward by means of case studies from countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, Botswana and Ghana that look at African religion, Islam and Christianity. This is a detailed and informative volume that provides new insights into the discourse on religion and human security. As such, it will be of significant use to any scholar of Religion and Violence, Religion in Africa and Religious Studies, as well as African and Security Studies more generally.
Author : Tim Kelsall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197667406
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa written by Tim Kelsall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. Given the scale and uniqueness of his contribution, it is perhaps surprising that a collection of his writings did not appear during his lifetime. It is now possible to bring such a volume to the public. With an introduction by Tim Kelsall and an afterword by Jean-François Bayart, this collection aims to provide scholars and students with an introduction to the main themes in Ellis' work. These revolved around the roles of religion, criminality and violence in African society and politics--preoccupations that also informed his interpretation of African rebellions and resistance movements. The volume spans more than three decades of scholarship; case studies from six countries; highly-cited and lesser-known articles; and a sampling of works intended for public engagement as well as an academic audience. It will serve as a reader for African Politics and History, and as an invitation to students to delve deeper into Stephen Ellis' oeuvre.
Author : Piet Konings
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558230
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Neoliberal Bandwagonism. Civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon written by Piet Konings and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While neoliberals typically view civil society organizations as vital channels for the implementation of economic and political reforms, they are also inclined to blame the politics of belonging for the poor record of these reforms. Piet Konings rejects such notions and argues that the relationship between civil society and the politics of belonging is more complex in Africa than Western donors and scholars are inclined to admit. He argues that ethno-regional associations and movements are more significant constituents of civil society in Africa than the conventional organizations that are often uncritically imposed or endorsed. He shows how the politics of belonging, so pervasive in Cameroon, and indeed much of Africa, during the current neoliberal economic and political reforms, has tended to penetrate the entire range of associational life, and he calls for a critical re-appraisal of prevalent notions and assumptions about civil society in the interest of African reality.
Author : B. Soares
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230607101
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa written by B. Soares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political liberalization and economic reform, the weakening of the state, and increased global interconnections have all had profound effects on Muslim societies and the practice of Islam in Africa. The contributors to this volume investigate and illuminate the changes that have occurred in Africa, through detailed case studies.
Author : Patrick Chabal
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136021
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Africa written by Patrick Chabal and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence. In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by reconsidering the role of theory in African politics. Chabal discusses the limitations of existing political theories of Africa and proposes a different starting point; arguing that political thinking ought to be driven by the need to address the immediacy of everyday life and death. How do people define who they are? Where do they belong? What do they believe? How do they struggle to survive and improve their lives? What is the impact of illness and poverty? In doing so, Chabal proposes a radically different way of looking at politics in Africa and illuminates the ways ordinary people 'suffer and smile'. This is a highly original addition to Zed's groundbreaking World Political Theories series.
Author : Ruth Marshall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226507149
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Political Spiritualities written by Ruth Marshall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an explosion of conversions to Pentecostalism over the past three decades, tens of millions of Nigerians now claim that “Jesus is the answer.” But if Jesus is the answer, what is the question? What led to the movement’s dramatic rise and how can we make sense of its social and political significance? In this ambitiously interdisciplinary study, Ruth Marshall draws on years of fieldwork and grapples with a host of important thinkers—including Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin—to answer these questions. To account for the movement’s success, Marshall explores how Pentecostalism presents the experience of being born again as a chance for Nigerians to realize the promises of political and religious salvation made during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Her astute analysis of this religious trend sheds light on Nigeria’s contemporary politics, postcolonial statecraft, and the everyday struggles of ordinary citizens coping with poverty, corruption, and inequality. Pentecostalism’s rise is truly global, and Political Spiritualities persuasively argues that Nigeria is a key case in this phenomenon while calling for new ways of thinking about the place of religion in contemporary politics.
Author : Sebastian Elischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108754783
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Salafism and Political Order in Africa written by Sebastian Elischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent the formation or curb the spread of homegrown jihadi Salafi organizations. In this book, Sebastian Elischer provides a comparative analysis of how different West and East African states have engaged with fundamentalist Muslim groups between the 1950s and today. In doing so, he establishes a causal link between state-imposed organizational gatekeepers in the Islamic sphere and the absence of homegrown jihadi Salafism. Illustrating that the contemporary manifestation of violent Islamic extremism in sub-Saharan Africa is an outcome of strategic political decisions that are deeply embedded in countries' autocratic pasts, he challenges conventional notions of statehood on the African continent, and provides new insight into the evolving relationships between secular and religious authority.
Author : Barbara M. Cooper
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253111927
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel written by Barbara M. Cooper and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fascinating historical account” of a Christian mission in Niger offers a personal and richly detailed look at religious institutions in the region (Religious Studies Review). Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival research, this vibrant, sensitive, compelling, and candid book gives a unique glimpse into an important dimension of religious life in Africa. Cooper’s involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission’s changing views of Islam.
Author : Abdoulaye Sounaye
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311073320X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa written by Abdoulaye Sounaye and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.
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Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782811100476
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book written by and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andre Corten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213785
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Between Babel and Pentecost written by Andre Corten and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text considers the important transnational character of Pentecostal movements in Africa and Latin America and their tendency to foster identities that transcend national and cultural contexts.
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of Religion in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Christopher Manuel
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589017245
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Catholic Church and the Nation-State written by Paul Christopher Manuel and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting case studies from sixteen countries on five continents, The Catholic Church and the Nation-State paints a rich portrait of a complex and paradoxical institution whose political role has varied historically and geographically. In this integrated and synthetic collection of essays, outstanding scholars from the United States and abroad examine religious, diplomatic, and political actions—both admirable and regrettable—that shape our world. Kenneth R. Himes sets the context of the book by brilliantly describing the political influence of the church in the post-Vatican II era. There are many recent instances, the contributors assert, where the Church has acted as both a moral authority and a self-interested institution: in the United States it maintained unpopular moral positions on issues such as contraception and sexuality, yet at the same time it sought to cover up its own abuses; it was complicit in genocide in Rwanda but played an important role in ending the horrific civil war in Angola; and it has alternately embraced and suppressed nationalism by acting as the voice of resistance against communism in Poland, whereas in Chile it once supported opposition to Pinochet but now aligns with rightist parties. With an in-depth exploration of the five primary challenges facing the Church—theology and politics, secularization, the transition from serving as a nationalist voice of opposition, questions of justice, and accommodation to sometimes hostile civil authorities—this book will be of interest to scholars and students in religion and politics as well as Catholic Church clergy and laity. By demonstrating how national churches vary considerably in the emphasis of their teachings and in the scope and nature of their political involvement, the analyses presented in this volume engender a deeper understanding of the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the world.
Author : Jörg Janzen
Publisher : Verlag Hans Schiler
ISBN 13 : 9783860932308
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book What are Somalia's Development Perspectives? written by Jörg Janzen and published by Verlag Hans Schiler. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
