Studies of Religion in Africa – serie
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17 produkter
Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation
Av Hans Olsson
Inbunden, 2019
3039 kr
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In Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation Hans Olsson offers an ethnographic account of the lived experience and socio-political significance of newly arriving Pentecostal Christians in the Muslim majority setting of Zanzibar. This work analyzes how a …
Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God
Writings from Ibandla lamaNazaretha, a South African Church
Inbunden, 2002
2250 kr
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The role of Africans in the growth and process of Christianity in South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular the book provides an insight into the role of writing and literacy in the church founded by the South African prophet, Isaiah Shembe, in 1910.The book …
Producing African Futures
Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age
Av Brad Weiss
Häftad, 2004
1367 kr
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The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal …
Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin
A Study of their Socio-political Role
Inbunden, 2007
2145 kr
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This book, divided into two broad sections, examines the state in the Republic of Benin and the socio-political role of the Christian churches. The first looks at the remarkable pre-colonial kingdom of Danxomέ and its place in the imagining of the modern contrat social béninois. The second section …
Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power
Charismatic Christianity in Ghana
Inbunden, 2007
2145 kr
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Charismatic Christianity is the most recent and fastest growing expression of Pentecostal religion in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana's capital, Accra, the charismatic churches dominate the religious scene. This book focuses on the gender discourses of Ghana's new churches, and considers charismatic …
Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
Av Felicitas Becker, Wenzel Geissler
Inbunden, 2009
2987 kr
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This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and …
Church and Settler in Colonial Zimbabwe
A Study in the History of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1925
Av Pamela Welch
Inbunden, 2008
2218 kr
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This book examines the history of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia (virtually co-extensive with modern Zimbabwe) in the period 1890-1925, when its institutions took shape and its religious character was formed. While work among indigenous communities is outlined, the primary …
Professional Women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic Churches
Inbunden, 2010
2476 kr
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This book gives a unique insight into the changing shape of contemporary religion examining the new role that Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity plays in the lives of young, professional, black women who are enjoying career success and becoming part of South Africa's new middle class. Amongst …
Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Africanization
Processes of Localization in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon
Av Ludovic Lado
Inbunden, 2009
2309 kr
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The anthropological literature on religious innovation and resistance in African Christianity tended to focus almost exclusively on what have come to be known as African Independent Churches. Very few anthropological studies have looked at similar processes within mission churches. Through an …
Baha'i Faith in Africa
Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962
Av Anthony Lee
Inbunden, 2011
2387 kr
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In 1952, there were probably fewer than 200 Baha'is in all of Africa. Today the Baha'i community claims one million followers on the continent. Yet, the Baha'i presence in Africa has been all but ignored in academic studies up to now. This is the first monograph that addresses the establishment of …
Ritual Imagination
A Study of Tromba Possession among the Betsimisaraka in Eastern Madagascar
Inbunden, 2011
2489 kr
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Ritual Imagination is a study of spirit possession and ritual dynamics. Based on fieldwork in eastern Madagascar, Hilde Nielssen shows how tromba possession works as a flexible and fluid force, whose ritual imaginary playfully draws together elements from radically different cultural and social …
Hindu Gods in West Africa
Ghanaian Devotees of Shiva and Krishna
Av Albert Wuaku
Inbunden, 2013
2948 kr
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In Hindu Gods in West Africa, Wuaku offers an account of the histories, beliefs and practices of the Hindu Monastery of Africa and the Radha Govinda Temple, two Hindu Temples in Ghana. Using historical material and data from his field work in southern Ghana, Wuaku shows how these two Hindu Temples …
Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha
Inbunden, 2016
2114 kr
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In Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha, Nkosinathi Sithole explores the hymns of Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha, and offers an emic perspective on the Church which has attracted scholars from different disciplines.Isaiah Shembe’s …
Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo
Of Spirit, Slave and Sea
Av Eric Montgomery, Christian Vannier
Inbunden, 2017
2257 kr
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In this book, Eric Montgomery and Christian Vannier provide an ethnographically informed text on the cultural meanings and practices surrounding the gods and metaphysics of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo. The authors approach this …
Locating Politics in Ethiopia's Irreecha Ritual
Inbunden, 2019
2757 kr
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In Locating Politics in Ethiopia's Irreecha Ritual Serawit Bekele Debele gives an account of politics and political processes in contemporary Ethiopia as manifested in the annual ritual performance. Mobilizing various sources such as archives, oral accounts, conversations, videos, newspapers, and …
Mixed Messages: Using the Bible and Qur'ān in Swahili Tracts
Inbunden, 2022
2153 kr
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The present volume sets Swahili religious tracts available in Kenya and Tanzania in their context. The book starts with an overview of tracts in Swahili from the 19th century to the present day, an examination of Swahili as a religious language, and an introduction to Swahili versions of the Bible …
Handbook of Christian Prophetism in Africa
Inbunden, 2025
1577 kr
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More than half a century has passed since the first monographs on African Christian prophetism were published. The prophetic element was only the most dramatic and prominent part of developments that sought to bring the biblical material alive in ways that had not been experienced in the …
