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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"African Christianity"”.
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Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise
My thesis is that early African Christians engaged in critical dialogue with their missionary counterparts in a variety of ways and forms which served to challenge and enrich the Christianization process in South Africa, eventually giving rise to the emergence of African Christianity and …
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Contextualized biblical hermeneutics in Korea and South Africa and decontextualized biblical hermeneutics in Jehovah's witnesses : in search of voices from the margin
… prayers’ and ‘rice contribution’, induced Christianity to be transformed into Korean Christianity. Similarly, Africans interpreted the Bible without losing their traditional cultural assets such as ‘ancestor worship’, ‘polygamy’, ‘music & dance‘, and ‘healing’. Furthermore, they developed …
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Towards a Land Conservation Ethic in Zimbabwe: An Ethical and Religio-Cultural Analysis of Land Conservation Policies and Practices in Communal Areas
… Shona religio-culture whose main components are African Traditional Religions and Cultures and African Christianity.</p> <p>The study employs the hermeneutical circle of liberation theology as a paradigm by which to do ethics. The paradigm follows the three methodological concepts of liberation …
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
… church with religious values deeply rooted in African Christian beliefs which greatly influence the interpretation of the bible. The objectives of the study were to: (1) explore the major religious teachings of the Mutima Church as a way of understanding its doctrines, (2) investigate the …
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
… church with religious values deeply rooted in African Christian beliefs which greatly influence the interpretation of the bible. The objectives of the study were to: (1) explore the major religious teachings of the Mutima Church as a way of understanding its doctrines, (2) investigate the …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… are applied to reflect on contemporary issues in Christianity in and out of Africa. The notion of the social imaginary represents a way of addressing issues of society through the lens of the subject's imagination, instead of thinking of society as external and bounded. Lacan helps us to ground …
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Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
… teaching profession was not highly esteemed by Africans, although it offered some teachers the security and status of a regular income. From the 1860s to the 1910s, the UMCA did not offer clear trajectories for most of the Africans interacting with it in search of a better life. Markers of …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …