West Africas Women Of God

Author : Robert M. Baum
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017912
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Africa's Women of God written by Robert M. Baum and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 0253111838
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tongnaab written by Jean Allman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rachel Angogo Kanyoro
Publisher : Action Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Groaning in Faith written by Rachel Angogo Kanyoro and published by Action Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : GoGo Mona Lea
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973694506
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sesi written by GoGo Mona Lea and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 1532664893
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Do More Work than Men written by Ini Dorcas Dah and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Labeodan, Helen A.
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863098277
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 written by Labeodan, Helen A. and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Robert M. Baum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352475
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shrines of the Slave Trade written by Robert M. Baum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing African Women's Theology written by Mercy Amba Oduyoye and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductions in Feminist Theology (IFT) explores various theological topics that challenge patriarchal theology and suggest liberating alternatives. The authors and editors seek to expand theological discourse by providing reliable guides to the history of thinking, current issues and debates, and possible future developments in feminist theology.

Author : Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Publisher : OCMS
ISBN 13 : 9781870345415
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beads and Strands written by Mercy Amba Oduyoye and published by OCMS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621891666
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Spirit, and Human Wholeness written by Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Spirit provides access to relationship with and reflection on the Triune God. In West Africa, Christians approach the Triune God in a way that challenges the Jewish-Christian memory. Deeply rooted in their ancestral memory, where living is relationality, they embrace the Trinitarian faith, the economy of the relational God-Christ-Spirit, by expanding and reinventing their indigenous experience of God, deities, spirits, and ancestors. Christian faith-practice is marked by the spectacular dominance of the Holy Spirit, whose charisms reflect the operations of deities. African Initiated Churches (AICs), Protestant and Catholic charismatic movements, experience God-Spirit's liberating and healing hand for the enhancement and realization of communal and individual destiny (what one expects from a concerned providential deity). This book argues that the emergent West African Trinitarian imagination is in harmony with Hebrew insight into the One and Only Yahweh of the patriarchs that assumed the dimensions of Elohim, God--experienced as a sound of sheer silence by Elijah, and proposed in utter weakness as the Only God by Deutero-Isaiah--the God that Jesus called Abba, Father. As Spirit and Life, the Holy Spirit, which is the source of all charisms (Origen), is our link to the Trinity.