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Author : Aylward Shorter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Secularism in Africa written by Aylward Shorter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Osogo Ambani
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446427
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Africa and the Decolonisation of State-Religion Policies written by John Osogo Ambani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a critical account of the practice of state-secularism in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda in comparison to France, Turkey and the US.
Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498269869
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Secularism and Africa written by Jim Harries and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secular assumptions underlie much formal communication between the West and Africa, and even intra-Africa. Secularism is dualistic by nature, but thinking in Africa is mostly monistic. This book suggests that it is better to be rooted in faith in Christ than in so-called secularism. The great respect given to the Bible in much of Africa verifies this idea. Communication of and through Christ is a bridge that can enable indigenous sustainable development. The same gospel is the bridge over which the West itself passes. Maintaining supposedly secular presuppositions may be denying sub-Saharan African people the means for self-initiated sustainable progress. This books draws on anthropology, linguistics, and theology, as well as the author's experience of living in Africa. Harries shares an autobiographical account of personal long-term grassroots ministry, and proposes a revision of widely held understandings of linguistics pertaining especially to the relationship between the West and Africa. He also looks at Bible teaching ministry in light of contemporary African contexts.
Author : Christopher Cameron
Publisher : Critical Insurgencies
ISBN 13 : 9780810140790
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Black Freethinkers written by Christopher Cameron and published by Critical Insurgencies. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Freethinkers is the first study to offer a comprehensive historical treatment of African American freethought (including atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism) from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Bernard van den Toren
Publisher : Regnum Books International
ISBN 13 : 9781913363864
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (638 download)
Download or read book Is Africa Incurably Religious? written by Bernard van den Toren and published by Regnum Books International. This book was released on 2020 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in the volume question the widespread thesis that Africa is 'incurably religious' by studying both the presence and meaning of secularization in sub-Saharan Africa and among the African diaspora. This exercise requires sustained interest in the notion of secularization itself. It explores whether the understanding of secularization will need to be challenged and enlarged to properly detect and understand the secularization processes in this continent that is known for its religious fervour. The essays in the first part focus on Africa's cultural and religious traditions. Thou.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349613738
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Islamism and Secularism in North Africa written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an excellent handbook to the Islamic movements in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya and fills a major gap in the scholarship on Islam and the Arab West.
Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863097351
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Religion and Development in Africa written by Ezra Chitando and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is "developed", while another community/ country is "under-developed"? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa's own history, including the memory of marginalisation, slavery and exploitation by global powers ensures that virtually every discussion on development is characterised by a lot of emotions and conflicting views. In this volume scholars from various African countries and many different religions and denominations contribute to this debate."--
Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498294456
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book New Foundations for Appreciating Africa written by Jim Harries and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural world alone provides an insufficient foundation for life. African people, as others, look elsewhere for guidance. The secularism implicitly taught in educational systems throughout the African continent frequently fails to engage with weaknesses in today's status quo. Here uncovered Christian roots of secularism can provide a means to interact with African and majority world realities. It is time for dominant western scholars to stop ignoring activity in the divine realm. This book starts by delving deeply into indigenous African Christian expression. Through discussion on the English category religion, it throws light on pressing issues in the contemporary world.
Author : Dhammamegha Annie Leatt
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776141032
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book The State of Secularism written by Dhammamegha Annie Leatt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa. The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth. 'Religion in South Africa's past', writes Dhammamegha Annie Leatt has been 'saturated by politics' and politics 'saturated by religion'. So how, she asks, was it possible for a new state to found itself without religious authority? Why did the churches give up so much of their political role in the transition? How can we think about tradition and the customary in relation to secularism? How can we not? In The State of Secularism Leatt guides the reader from a history of global political secularism through an exploration of the roles played by religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa to the position of religion in the post-apartheid state. She analyses the negotiations relating to religion in the constitution-making process, arguing, that South Africa is both secular in its Constitution and judicial foundations and increasingly non-secular in its embrace of traditional authorities and customary law. In the final chapter Leatt turns her attention to post-apartheid South Africa, examining changing relationships between churches and the ruling African National Congress and the increasing influence of traditional leaders and evangelical Christians in an anti-liberal alliance. This book makes a tremendous contribution to the literature on postcolonial politics on the African continent. It has wonderful insights into the founding of a constitutional democracy in South African and will appeal to students in history, politics, sociology and anthropology and constitutional law.
Author : Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197644155
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the opposition to homosexuality and LGBTI rights in African societies. This book nuances that picture, by drawing attention to discourses emerging in Africa itself that engage with religion, specifically Christianity, in progressive and innovative ways--in support of sexual diversity and the quest for justice for LGBTI people. The authors show not only that African Christian traditions harbor strong potential for countering conservative anti-LGBTI dynamics; but also that this potential has already begun to be realized, by various thinkers, activists and movements across the continent. Their ten case studies document how leading African writers are reimagining Christian thought; how several Christian-inspired groups are transforming religious practice; and how African cultural production creatively appropriates Christian beliefs and symbols. In short, the book explores Christianity as a major resource for a liberating imagination and politics of sexuality and social justice in Africa today. Foregrounding African agency and progressive religious thought, this highly original intervention counterbalances our knowledge of secular approaches to LGBTI rights in Africa, and powerfully decolonizes queer theory, theology and politics.
Author : Patrick Harries
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802866344
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Spiritual in the Secular written by Patrick Harries and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Livingstone's visit to Cambridge in 1857 was seen as much as a scientific event as a religious one. But he was by no means alone among missionaries in integrating mission with science and other fields of research. Rather, many missionaries were remarkable, pioneering polymaths. This collection of essays explores the ways in which late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionaries to Africa contributed to various academic disciplines, such as linguistics, ethnography, social anthropology, zoology, medicine, and many more. This volume includes an introductory chapter by the editors and eleven chapters that analyze missionary research and its impact on knowledge about African contexts. Several themes emerge, including many missionaries' positive views of indigenous discourses and the complicated relationship between missionaries and professional anthropologists. Contributors: John Cinnamon Erika Eichholzer Natasha Erlank Deborah Gaitskell Patrick Harries Walima T. Kalusa John Manton David Maxwell John Stuart Dmitri van den Bersselaar Honor Vinck
Author : Mirjam Künkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841771X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A Secular Age Beyond the West written by Mirjam Künkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Author : Barbara Bompani
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Development and Politics from Below written by Barbara Bompani and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of this volume pose major challenges to the research community: to re-evaluate the concepts, assumptions and methods that may veil rather than illuminate contemporary African societies and to develop a better understanding of the relationships between religion, politics, development and modernity. The authors of the individual chapters make a valuable contribution to this research agenda by examining aspects of the place of religion in public spaces; how religions function and shape people's lives, communities and organizations; and the role of religion in the sphere of health.'---Carole Rakodi, Director of the Religion and Development Research Programme, International Development Department, University of Birmingham, UK --
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312160876
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Islamism and Secularism in North Africa written by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an excellent handbook to the Islamic movements in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya and fills a major gap in the scholarship on Islam and the Arab West.
Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195220162
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Worlds of Power written by Stephen Ellis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the revitalisation of traditional religions it is clear that the world is not heading towards a community of secular states. Nowhere are religious thought and political practice more closely intertwined than in Africa. African migrants in Europe and America who send home money to build churches and mosques, African politicians who consult diviners, guerrilla fighters who believe that amulets can protect them from bullets, and ordinary people who seek ritual healing: all of these are applying religious ideas to everyday problems of existence, at every level of society. Far from falling off the map of the world, Africa is today a leading centre of Christianity and a growing field of Islamic activism, while African traditional religions are gaining converts in the West. One cannot understand the politics of the present without taking religious thought seriously. Stories about witches, miracles, or people returning from the dead incite political action. In Africa religious belief has a huge impact on politics, from the top of society to the bottom. Religious ideas show what people actually think about the world and how to deal with it. Ellis and Ter Haar maintain that the specific content of religious thought has to be mastered if we are to grasp the political significance of religion in Africa today, but their book also informs our understanding of the relationship between religion and political practice in general.
Author : Edmond Joseph Keller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868886166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Religious Ideas and Institutions written by Edmond Joseph Keller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest phase of political transitions in Africa, analysts rarely consider the relationship between religion and politics. This book addresses this need, arguing that, for democracy to be consolidated, political leaders must make the right institutional choices - choices that structure the incentives of their constituents, as well as their own, away from antagonistic forms of politics or religious extremism. What impact do African contemporary religious organizations and elites have on their societies in terms of intergroup reciprocity and political bargaining? The primary objective of this volume is to analyze how such organizations respond to the political signs and gestures of other groups in a like-minded manner, and the nature and effects of their negotiations with the State and other interests over contested matters. The book's contributors hypothesize that Africa's religious organizations can prove critical in the way their elites make demands on the State and in the way they help to shape the structure of intergroup relations in constructive or destructive directions. The authors consider the roles of both secular and religious elites and institutions in creating a political climate that enables elites to consolidate democracy.
Author : M Christian Green
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928314422
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)
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 426 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.
