Trauma And Recovery In Early North African Christianity

Author : Scott Harrower
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511262
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity written by Scott Harrower and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful religious elements for living in the aftermath of trauma are embedded within North African Christian hagiographies. The texts of (1) The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, (2) The Account of Montanus, Lucius, and their Companions, and (3) The Life of Cyprian of Carthage are stories that offered post traumatic pathways to recovery for its historical readership. These recovery-oriented beliefs and behaviors promoted positive religious coping strategies that revolved around a sense of safety, re-establishing community relationships, an integrated sense of self, and a hopeful story beyond trauma. This book vividly demonstrates that hagiographies played a vital therapeutic role in helping early Christian trauma survivors recover and flourish in the aftermath of disastrous persecutions.

Author : Scott Harrower
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511386
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity written by Scott Harrower and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful religious elements for living in the aftermath of trauma are embedded within North African Christian hagiographies. The texts of (1) The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, (2) The Account of Montanus, Lucius, and their Companions, and (3) The Life of Cyprian of Carthage are stories that offered post traumatic pathways to recovery for its historical readership. These recovery-oriented beliefs and behaviors promoted positive religious coping strategies that revolved around a sense of safety, re-establishing community relationships, an integrated sense of self, and a hopeful story beyond trauma. This book vividly demonstrates that hagiographies played a vital therapeutic role in helping early Christian trauma survivors recover and flourish in the aftermath of disastrous persecutions.

Author : Mohammed Girma
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498572642
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Healing of Memories written by Mohammed Girma and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has seen many political crises ranging from violent political ideologies, to meticulous articulated racist governance system, to ethnic clashes resulting in genocide and religious conflicts that have planted the seed of mutual suspicion.The masses impacted by such crises live with the past that has not passed. The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma examines Christian responses to the damaging impact of conflict on the collective memory. Troubled memory is a recipe for another cycle of conflict. While most academic works tend to stress forgiving and forgetting, they did not offer much as to how to deal with the unforgettable past. This book aims to fill this gap by charting an interdisciplinary approach to healing the corrosive memories of painful pasts. Taking a cue from the empirical expositions of post-apartheid South Africa, post-genocide Rwanda, the Congo Wars, and post-Red Terror Ethiopia, this volume brings together coherent healing approaches to deal with traumatic memory.

Author : Ogbu Kalu
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781592217779
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Missions in Africa written by Ogbu Kalu and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of intellectually compelling and emotionally engaging essays exploring African 'versions' of Christianity and their impact on the religion as a whole. Kalu does not simply record the demographic shift, numerical growth and vitality of African churches, but also, importantly, shows how expressions of Christianity are filtered through African cultures.

Author : Margaret V. Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789966217929
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Wounds of Trauma written by Margaret V. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is addressed to people who have experienced some kind of trauma, such as war, criminal activity or natural disasters. It particularly seeks to help Church leaders who have members in their churches who have been traumatized. The chapters deal with different aspects of trauma, giving basic physiological teaching within a biblical framework."--P.[4] of cover.

Author : Julius Lloyd
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781407797977
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North African Church written by Julius Lloyd and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Thousand Years of African Christianity written by Raymond Hickey and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. J. East
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Western Africa written by D. J. East and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137455306
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Bodies as Battlefield written by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women. War itself has come to resemble the war on women, and thus strategies to end the war on women, supported by new Christian theological interpretations, will also help end today's endless wars.

Author : Erin K. Wagner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501512099
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature written by Erin K. Wagner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that become collated with heretic in the parlance of medieval English writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and subverted marginalized or vulnerable identities to promote a false image of unassailable authority.