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The Language of Faith in Southern Africa: Spirit World, Power, Community, Holism

Author : Hermen Kroesbergen
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928396933
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Faith in Southern Africa: Spirit World, Power, Community, Holism written by Hermen Kroesbergen and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide a way to do justice to an African language of faith. In systematic theology, anthropology and philosophy of religion, similar debates about how to interpret an African language of faith are ongoing. Trying to avoid the othering discourses of past generations, scholars are careful to take seriously what people in Africa say without portraying peoples beliefs as weird or backward. Yet, in their desperate attempts to avoid othering, these theologians, anthropologists and philosophers often painfully misconstrue the language of faith in Africa. Understanding the language of faith in Southern Africa is not an easy task. How should we take seriously the form of language that often seems so strange and different? I argue that, after African inculturation theology and black liberation theology, a better way to make sense of being a Christian in Southern Africa is to pay close attention to peoples language of faith. The way in which people speak of the spirit world or powers in Africa appears strange to outsiders, and the sense of community and the holistic worldview differentiates the African way of life from its Euro-American counterparts. When proper attention is paid to the use of concepts like spirit world, power, community and holism, language of faith in Southern Africa is neither as strange as it may seem, nor as romantic. By investigating these distinguishing concepts that colour language of faith in Southern Africa, this book contributes to future projects of both fellow theologians who try to construct a contemporary African theology and those who are interested in theology in Africa given the well-known southward shift of the centre of gravity of Christianity.

Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion

Author : Tope Omoniyi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027227101
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion by : Tope Omoniyi

Download or read book Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion written by Tope Omoniyi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Study of Religion in Southern Africa

Author : Johannes A. Smit
Publisher : Numen Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Study of Religion in Southern Africa written by Johannes A. Smit and published by Numen Book. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays in honour of Gerhardus Cornelis (Pippin) Oosthuizen, provides perspectives on current research in Religion and Southern Africa. It includes essays on Indigenous and Diaspora Religions and Religious Literature Hermeneutics.

The Realm of the Word

Author : Paul Stuart Landau
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 : 9780852556207
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book The Realm of the Word written by Paul Stuart Landau and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1995 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grassroots history of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa treats religion and society as a coherent whole. It shifts the focus away from European missionaries and African Christians, and on to African evangelists, schoolchildren, healers and - most of all - Christian women. The ideologies and practices of Christianity emerge as inseparable from a kingdom's construction of power in central Botswana - a realm of the word premised, not on western hegemony, but instead on Tswana self-rule.

Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Author : Annika Björnsdotter Teppo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000441687
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa by : Annika Björnsdotter Teppo

Download or read book Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa written by Annika Björnsdotter Teppo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segregation sparked wide-reaching social change as social, cultural, spatial and racial boundaries were transgressed and transformed. This book investigates how Afrikaners have mediated the country’s shifting boundaries within the realm of religion. For instance, one in every three Afrikaners used these new freedoms to leave the traditional Dutch Reformed Church (NGK), often for an entirely new religious affiliation within the Pentecostal or Charismatic churches, or New Religious Movements such as Wiccan neopaganism. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Western Cape area, the book investigates what spiritual life after racial totalitarianism means for the members of the ethnic group that constructed and maintained that very totalitarianism. Ultimately, the book asks how these new Afrikaner religious practices contribute to social solidarity and integration in a persistently segregated society, and what they can tell us about racial relations in the country today. This book will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, social and cultural anthropology and African studies.

Making African Christianity

Author : Robert J. Houle
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611460824
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Making African Christianity written by Robert J. Houle and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert J. Houle examines the history of faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amaKholwa,) in what would become South Africa, arguing that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. Houle believes that before the religion could take hold, several aspects of Christianity needed to be 'translated' to fill critical gaps between existing African beliefs and Chritian tradition. This dual identity was difficult to reconcile through much of Zulu Christian history, but ultimately transformed both the Zulu Christians and their adopted faith.

Study of Religion in Southern Africa

Author : Johannes Smit
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407490
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Study of Religion in Southern Africa written by Johannes Smit and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays in honour of Gerhardus Cornelis (Pippin) Oosthuizen, provides perspectives on current research in Religion and Southern Africa. It includes essays on Indigenous and Diaspora Religions and Religious Literature Hermeneutics.

An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century

Author : Caroline Jeannerat
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3906927377
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century by : Caroline Jeannerat

Download or read book An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century written by Caroline Jeannerat and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions as institutions and on the ways in which people were integrated into the economic, political and ideological spheres of imperial powers. Reduced to an experience occurring within a person, faith was deemed unapproachable by scientific methods. This has, in effect, constituted a silence regarding the everyday experience of religiosity among those drawn to Christianity. The Ethnography of Faith is a detailed study of the ways in which people engage with and experience the religious in order to recognise and understand this suppressed voice of religiosity. In her analysis of the Lutheran church in the Soutpansberg of early 20th century South Africa, Caroline Jeannerat listens closely to how people describe their own faith and that of others in the archive: in accounts of work done, in texts written for mission publications, in songs composed for church services, in letters and newspaper articles, and in oral memories. A careful reading of this archive—for breaks, for misunderstandings and oppositions, for sentiments of agreement, praise, compatibility and claims of shared experiences—identifies negotiations of meaning which give indications of conceptualisations of faith that stand in distinction to those of the missionaries and their expectations.

Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church

Author : Amy Stambach
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 179360360X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church by : Amy Stambach

Download or read book Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church written by Amy Stambach and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work examines the operations and organization of the Tanzanian Lutheran church through the life and times of its longest serving diocesan bishop, Erasto N. Kweka. Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu develop the concept of pragmatic faith, belief-in-practice, to analyze the integration of religious experience, institutionalism, and doctrine or orthodoxy. Pragmatic faith breaks down the lingering binary found in anthropological studies of Christianity between transcendental experience and pragmatic struggle, and between religious revival as rupture or continuity. Stambach and Kwayu analyze the instrumental use of religion in practice, as well as its socially mobilized potential for revelation and transformation. A key analytic agenda of this book is to illuminate how a church that retains the organizational and ritual forms of a European mission church "became" culturally localized over time and yet, paradoxically, also existed pre-colonially. Accordingly, this book offers detailed and ethnographically-grounded perspective on how leaders and laypeople affiliated with the Tanzanian Lutheran church connect the church with other significant institutions, not only the state and the government, but also descent groups, extended families, self-help groups, and existing civic organizations, in order to live meaningfully.

Galu Wamkota

Author : Ernst R. Wendland
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9990887055
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Galu Wamkota written by Ernst R. Wendland and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An old dog (galu wamkota) does not dig for nothing," so the proverb says. The two authors, one from America (with 45 years in Zambia); the other from Zambia, explore the encounter of the Christian faith with African Traditional Religion, treating concept(s) of God, the world of the spirits, of powers and witchcraft, and then how the Bible can be translated into the language of Zambia and Malawi taking into account both changes in concepts of translation and in society

Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 2

Author : Amanze, James N.
Publisher : Mzuni Press
ISBN 13 : 9996060764
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 2 written by Amanze, James N. and published by Mzuni Press. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 474 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.

Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa

Author : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783830963288
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa written by Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of religion in society? In the wake of September 11, public intellectuals provided easy answers. According to some, religion was the problem, others commented, religion was the solution. Generally, public debate about the force of religion in society has been organized by either/or propositions. Religion is a force for either freedom or bondage, for either peace or war, for either mutual recognition or antagonistic polarization. Analysis of religion and social change has also tended to be framed in terms of oppositions that inform research agendas and public policy. In this book, authors from South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, and Germany test these oppositions.

The Faith Moves South

Author : Steven Paas
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Faith Moves South written by Steven Paas and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a succinct historical overview of Christianity in Africa. It is written in the tradition of the existing studies of indigenous and indigenised Christianity on the African continent, considered from Southern perspectives, such as those by F.J. Verstraelen, Ogbu U. Kalu and J. Hildebrandt.

Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 2

Author : N. Amanze
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9996060772
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 2 by : N. Amanze

Download or read book Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa: Vol 2 written by N. Amanze and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 476 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.

Contract Law in South Africa

Author : Louis F. van Huyssteen
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9403529334
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Contract Law in South Africa written by Louis F. van Huyssteen and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of contracts in South Africa covers every aspect of the subject-definition and classification of contracts, contractual liability, relation to the law of property, good faith, burden of proof, defects, penalty clauses, arbitration clauses, remedies in case of non-performance, damages, power of attorney, and much more. Lawyers who handle transnational contracts will appreciate the explanation of fundamental differences in terminology, application, and procedure from one legal system to another, as well as the international aspects of contract law. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes drafting considerations. An introduction in which contracts are defined and contrasted to torts, quasi-contracts, and property is followed by a discussion of the concepts of ‘consideration’ or ‘cause’ and other underlying principles of the formation of contract. Subsequent chapters cover the doctrines of ‘relative effect’, termination of contract, and remedies for non-performance. The second part of the book, recognizing the need to categorize an agreement as a specific contract in order to determine the rules which apply to it, describes the nature of agency, sale, lease, building contracts, and other types of contract. Facts are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable time-saving tool for business and legal professionals alike. Lawyers representing parties with interests in South Africa will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative contract law.

Journal of Theology for Southern Africa

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Theology for Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa

Author : John Samuel Pobee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498295452
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa written by John Samuel Pobee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is African theology? What are its distinctive traits and characteristics, modes of investigation, and style of expression? Can African theology reach wider and run deeper than simple propositional articulation? What concerns and special circumstances have shaped its outlook? What unique burdens or hurdles imposed by the past must African theology surmount? What challenges and opportunities lie before it? What are African theology’s prospects? As a field of Christian engagement, is it condemned to be only an appendage to theology imported from the West and the North? Or does it have a distinctive contribution to make and gifts to share, not just within the continent of Africa, but also with the Christian world at large? These questions exercise the mind and soul of the African church. A worthy capstone to a lifetime of service as a theologian, educator, and ecumenical leader, this volume offers John Samuel Pobee’s considered and mature reflections on issues he raised nearly forty years ago when he published Toward an African Theology.