Author: Robert M. Baum
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253017912
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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West Africa's Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male tradition to one that is largely female. He traces the response of Diola to the distinct challenges presented by conquest, colonial rule, and the post-colonial era. Looking specifically at the work of the most famous Diola woman prophet, Alinesitoué, Baum addresses the history of prophecy in West Africa and its impact on colonialism, the development of local religious traditions, and the role of women in religious communities.
Author: Jean Allman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253111838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
Author: Robert M. Baum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.
Author: Rachel Angogo Kanyoro
Publisher: Action Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Feminist theology
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Dorothea E. Schulz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253223628
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are far more publicly engaged than they were in the past. Muslims and New Media in West Africa expands ideas about religious life in West Africa, women's roles in religion, religion and popular culture, the meaning of religious experience in a charged environment, and how those who consume both religion and new media view their public and private selves.
Author: GoGo Mona Lea
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973694506
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Sesi is a person who has been tutored as a child to ‘do your best for the Lord’. Each accomplishment was praised and rewarded. With each step forward came questions of “should I”? God was faithful and answered with direction. Teaching has always been her passion. “The little ones!” “Oh, look at you, all your tops are tucked in! Praise You, Jesus!” “Thank You Jesus, you all lined up so nice and I didn’t say a word!” “You finished so quickly, thank You Jesus! Good Job!” The children’s response to her praise is evidence of it. Who wouldn’t? with all that praise! Through each plateau of life: Teaching, Pastor’s wife, death of father, husband, and her mother’s stroke, she stands firm in the Lord and praises His faithfulness.
Author: Ini Dorcas Dah
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532664893
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Author: Labeodan, Helen A.
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
ISBN: 3863098277
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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"COVID-19 has, like other crises, thrown into relief social injustices and gendered inequalities. BiAS 31/ ERA 8 offers theological responses to and reflections on the COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic. All are by African scholars and authors; some are academic, some experiential, and others creative or impressionistic in tone. Reflecting the ethos and commitment of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians ("The Circle") to nurture and promote the publications by and about African women and men committed to social justice and positive change, this issue contains the writings of some established but, predominantly, of emerging theologians. For some contributors, this is their first publication in an international series."
Author: Thomas C. Oden
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830837051
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.
Author: Lamin Sanneh
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331490
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
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