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Kony As Moses - Old Testament Texts And Motifs In The Early Years Of The Lords Resistance Army, Uganda

by Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala

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 This book is in the academic discipline of critical biblical studies. It analyses the use of the bible in Uganda with specific refence to the LRA.
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A Maasai Encounter With The Bible - Nomadic Lifestyle As A Hermeneutic Question

by Zephania Shila Nkesela

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 This book is a critical analysis of how Maasai informants read some selected Old Testament texts that are thought to have an appeal to people with semi/nomadic ways of life. The Maasai is a Nilotic ethnic group of semi/nomadic pastoralists living in the northern Tanzania, and southern Kenya, East Africa. The book focuses on the parallels between the Maasai and biblical concepts of nomadic lifestyle. On the one hand, the semi/nomadic heritage of the Maasai faces severe cultural and political difficulties when encountering East African modern ways of life. On the other, the ancient Israel actually experienced the opposite, seeing a strengthening of semi/nomadic ways of life. Therefore, the book demonstrates the potentials of the supposed parallels between the two by allowing the experiences of the ancient Israel to contribute to strengthen the semi/nomadic ways of life, a key aspect of traditional Maasai values into the contemporary East African context.
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Maasai Women And The Old Testament - Towards An Emancipatory Reading

by Hoyce Jacob Lyimo-Mbowe

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 The research presented in this book is a critical study of some effects of popular biblical interpretations in the context of an East African ethnic group, the Maasai. The book focuses on parallels between concepts of female inferiority in biblical texts and in Maasai traditional culture. It investigates some parallels and analyses their problems as they are conceptualized in popular Maasai biblical interpretation and how these affect the social transformation of the contemporary Maasai women. Therefore, this book aims at sensitizing readers of the Bible about popular interpretation of biblical texts that consciously, and more often unconsciously, function as a legitimizing force, which authorizes or reinforces socio-cultural structures that oppress women. However, it demonstrates the potential of reading biblical texts from emancipatory perspectives, both in popular and academic critical contexts. Also, this book demonstrates how some popular Maasai biblical interpretations contributes in the academic works for the emancipation of women. Moreover, this work develops its own contextual hermeneutics approach of woman liberation known as enkitok. The new approach borrows some aspects from social fields and it has been employed in this work on some selected biblical texts.
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The Eldest Brother And New Testament Christology

by Harald Aarbakke

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 The Eldest Brother and New Testament Christology explores the origin of cultural representations of Jesus as an eldest brother. Through ethnographic surveys, author Harald Aarbakke shows that the role of the eldest brother in different African societies is often accompanied by additional roles, among them mediator, protector, and leader. Aarbakke also searches for an exegetical basis for this understanding of Jesus, and argues that an eldest brother Christology can be substantiated by the cultural and literary context of certain New Testament texts (Matthew 25:3146 and 28:10, Mark 3:3135, John 20:17, Romans 8:2830, Colossians 1:1520, and Hebrews 2:1018).
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The Bible And Sociological Contours - Some African Perspectives. Festschrift For Professor Halvor Moxnes

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 This book, which is a collection of various essays on Africa and the Bible, is a must-read for scholars and students who are interested in exploring the intersection between the Bible and public spaces exposing the liberating and oppressing strands of the Bible. Given the enchanted African worldview, which includes belief in miracles, divine healing and prosperity, the Bible is the go-to-authority of many religious activities. Though at home, the Bibles role and function needs closer assessment. The critical question tackled in this volume is: how can Africa read the Bible from its various contexts to recover its usefulness on issues of gender, patriarchy and political and economic liberation? Yet equally, how do we guard against oppressive discourses that find support from the Bible such as polygamy, viewing women as unequal to men and growing economic disparities? In addition, throughout history, Africans are made to be comfortable with theologies that further distance them away from economic and political processes, such as the belief in an angry God who punishes and demands utter obediencetheologies which have sustained particular asymmetric socio-economic and political structures across the continent. This book is important because it traces the sociological contours in the Bible in relation to Africa, sensitizing us to the liberating strands and, at the same time, making us aware of the pathos associated with the literary reading of the Bible.
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Human Creation In The Image Of God - The Asante Perspective

by Eric Antwi

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 Drawing on Asante anthropology, Human Creation in the Image of God examines the Christian understanding of imago dei.
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Generational Curses In The Pentateuch - An American And Maasai Intercultural Analysis

by Beth E. Elness-Hanson

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 This book pursues an intercultural analysis of American and Maasai interpretations of the Pentateuchal texts on the generational curses. It demonstrates that intercultural dialogues increase understandings, which otherwise are limited by one worldview.
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A Critical Analysis Of The Interpretation Of The Doctrine Of «Justification By Faith Alone» By The Lutheran Church Of Christ In Nigeria, Gongola Dioce

by James J. Reynolds

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 Within the context of the Lutheran Church in Nigeria, Gongola Diocese, this book examines the issues of the transmission, and appropriation of the doctrine of justification by faith alone. It argues that intercultural communication holds the key to unlocking how effectively and appropriately these three engagements with theology are executed.
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The Fourth Self - Theological Education To Facilitate Self-Theologizing For Local Church Leaders In Kenya

by Richard E. Trull

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 The research and reflections in The Fourth Self come from the authorâ€™s almost thirty years of interaction in mission endeavors, primarily in Kenya, starting with an evangelism and church planting emphasis, to maturing young churches, and then various methods of leadership development.
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Biblical Representations Of Moab - A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading

by R.S. Wafula

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 Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in contemporary Kenya and to utilize those critical tools to illuminate the Hebrew Bible narratives concerning the Moabites.
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Religion And Development - Nordic Perspectives On Involvement In Africa

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 Religion and Development: Nordic Perspectives on Involvement in Africa brings more colors into the traditional black-and-white picture of religion and development as two separate analytical entities. Through the voices of experts from theology and development studies to social anthropology and global studies, this book sheds particular light on Nordic involvement in Africa.
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Restoring Dignity In Rural And Urban Madagascar - On How Religion Creates New Life-Stories

by Marianne Skjortnes

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 Christian churches across the world such as the Lutheran church in Madagascar have long been engaged in what we would today term «development». The church has been deeply involved in humanitarian assistance and development work, especially in the areas of education and health. Restoring Dignity in Rural and Urban Madagascar analyzes this phenomenon and presents stories of human dignity in the lives of the people in this society, a society that survives in a context of vulnerability, both social and economic. The stories show how everyday life is lived despite unfulfilled needs and when decent living conditions are but a dream. The book is primarily concerned with a commitment to Christianity in a changing society and focuses on church members experiences of the development work of the Lutheran church in their everyday lives. Christian faith and Christian values such as human dignity, ethics, and belonging represent added values to these people and express value systems that are tied to ethical reflection and moral action. For those who choose to participate in the churchs development work and spiritual activity, therefore, new ethical standards and norms are created. This approach challenges the traditional emphasis on cultural continuity thinking to explain the sudden change in values that people say that they have experienced. The book will be essential assigned reading in university courses in development studies, anthropology, and missiology.
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Pauls Sexual And Marital Ethics In 1 Corinthians 7 - An African-Cameroonian Perspective

by Alice Yafeh

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 Pauls Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7: An African-Cameroonian Perspective provides readers with an innovative interpretation of Pauls pastoral and pedagogical approach and solutions to the multifaceted ethical problems presented to him by the Corinthian community, revealing a wide-ranging, complex, and flexible decision-making process. Alice Yafehs analysis also illuminates two different evaluations of the same ethical problem may be simultaneously relevant where operating assumptions diverge: first as a community in pursuance of the goal of undistracted devotion to the Lord, and, second, as individual members who must pursue that goal within the specific lifestyles in which they have been called. The author argues that Pauls pastoral and theological approach, which is deeply motivated by a desire to inspire faithful Christian living and witness, can serve as a new model for evaluating pre-conversion polygyny; a model that is oriented toward positive and substantive change in the lives of women and children. Consequently, the implication of Pauls approach and judgments for contemporary Christian communities suggests the same believing community may adopt different ways of faithfully living out the practical implications of Christian view of marriage extended by Paul in 1 Corinthians 7.
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Interpreting The Old Testament In Africa - Papers From The International Symposium On Africa And The Old Testament In Nairobi, October 1999

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 This book is a collection of papers read at the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999. Thirty biblical scholars and theologians mainly from Eastern Africa, but some also from South Africa and Europe came together to discuss what it means to interpret the Old Testament in Africa today. Their contributions fall in five parts: (i) a mapping of the social, historical, and academic context of Old Testament studies in Africa; (ii) exegetical studies of how Africa is portrayed by the Old Testament; (iii) examples of how the African socio-religious experience can serve as comparative material for interpretation of the Old Testament; (iv) examples of how Old Testament texts are experienced as relevant to contemporary African readers; and (v) various aspects of the efforts of translating the Old Testament in Africa today.
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Indigenous Christianity In Madagascar - The Power To Heal In Community

by Cynthia Holder Rich

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 Madagascar is a poor country with very little power on the world stage. As a former French colony, Madagascars wealth has often been viewed as available to others with more power to take and use as they please. This trend continues today; while its unique flora and fauna and potential mineral resources excite international business, government, and conservation interests, for the most part, the lives of Malagasy people receive little attention. In this context of powerlessness, an indigenous Christian movement offers empowerment and healing to people with mental illness. The movement, little-known outside the country, has offered care and community to many of societys outcasts for over a century. The impact of the movements work is so great that national health officials depend on the movement for mental health services, which are woefully lacking outside the movements camps. In this volume, the movements strategies for caring in community are explored, particularly focusing on understandings and uses of power among the powerless. The book includes discussion of power use and abuse by colonial, missionary, ecclesial, national, and international forces, analyzes relationships between the powerful and powerless, asks theological questions about power and the Jesus movement worldwide, and invites conversation on the potential power of the building of communities of care for people with mental illness in other contexts globally, to work toward healing, justice, and health.
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Improving Preaching By Listening To Listeners - Sunday Service Preaching In The Malagasy Lutheran Church

by Hans Austnaberg

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 Improving Preaching by Listening to Listeners: Sunday Service Preaching in the Malagasy Lutheran Church explores the reaction of the congregation to Sunday preaching. Preaching has been a significant activity since the founding of the Lutheran Church in Madagascar in 1867. However, hardly any research has been carried out to explore this interesting field, particularly from the listeners perspective. This book is an attempt to remedy this situation. With the aid of methodology from rhetorical studies, adapted into homiletics, this book investigates: How do the character of the preacher, the content of the sermon, and its emotional appeal impact the listeners in such a way that preaching becomes significant in their lives? Listeners consider the preacher himself important, both his spiritual and everyday life. They evaluate his good intentions, whether he believes in his own message, and whether his message is moulded by an encounter with the risen Lord. The Bible provides the sermons basic content and foundation, and The Holy Spirit is considered an active agent in the preaching event. The listeners encounter words from God through the sermon. They can experience change in their lives by listening to preaching from caring pastors who create presence for important issues for change to happen. The Malagasy context and culture form the backcloth throughout the investigation, and this book specifically investigates Malagasy rhetoric, that is, the public speech tradition with regard to its possible role in increasing the impact of preaching on the listeners.
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African Teachers On The Colonial Frontier - Tswana Evangelists And Their Communities During The Nineteenth Century

by Stephen C. Volz

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 African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier is an exploration of the profound social and personal changes that accompanied the expansion of European influence in the interior of southern Africa during the nineteenth century, focusing on the role played by Tswana Christian evangelists. Drawing on a wide range of sources and locating African converts rather than European missionaries at the center of the story, this book provides new insights into the development of African-European relations and the impact of colonization. Although Christian missions played an important role in European expansion, this book reveals that during much of the nineteenth century, Europeans had little control over the various ways that Africans interpreted, assimilated, and propagated Christianity, and how Christianity acquired meanings contrary to its presumed role as a vehicle for European imperialism. Africans associated Christianity with Europeans, but the implications of that association changed as relations between Africans and Europeans changed. More influential was the association of Christianity with certain individuals or families and their employment of Christianity as an element of politico-religious authority. Africans transformed Christianity as they were themselves transformed by it, and their efforts were usually motivated by very personal or local concerns, often despite rather than because of Christianitys association with foreigners. Given its broad chronological scope and accessible prose, this book will be useful to undergraduate students studying the history of Africa, religion, or colonialism. The books detailed references to specific people and places in southern Africa also make it of interest to students and other readers residing in that region with an interest in the history of their churches or particular communities.
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Religion, Politics And Cults In East Africa - Gods Warriors And Marys Saints

by Emmanuel K. Twesigye

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 Religion, Politics and Cults in East Africa is the first major, original, and extensive research-based study of the apocalyptic and doomsday Catholic Marian Movement and its Benedictine monastic moral and religious practices, including vows of poverty, celibacy, obedience, daily contemplation in silence, and hard work. The Marian Movement is presented within the cultural, historical, political, and religious context of the East African Revival Movement, the Anglican Balokole Movement, Alice Lakwenas Holy Spirit Movement, Joseph Konys Lords Resistance Army (LRA), and other religio-political liberation movements, including the Maji Maji, the Mau Mau, and Nyabingi Liberation Movement. The Marian Movement was locally known as «Abanyabugoto» and «The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God». It began in 1989 as a Catholic womens Marian devotional and moral reformation movement, founded and headed by Keledonia Mwerinde. Faced with African cultural patriarchy and male-dominated Catholic Church hierarchy, Mwerinde recruited Joseph Kibwetere and the Rev. Fr. Dominic Kataribabo to serve as the public face of the Marian Movement. In response to Catholic hierarchys opposition and persecution, Fr. Kataribabo designed a theology of ritual sacrifice, atonement, and martyrdoms for the devout Marian Catholics, who were devotees of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He martyred the Marian devotees in March 2000, in order to transform them into Marys saints, and to liberate their souls and send them to heaven, where they would instantly attain eternal life, lasting peace, and happiness.
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Doing Ministry In The Igbo Context - Towards An Emerging Model And Method For The Church In Africa- Foreword By Theophilus Okere

by Cajetan E. Ebuziem

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 Doing Ministry in the Igbo Context
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The Holy Spirit And Salvation In African Christian Theology - Imagining A More Hopeful Future For Africa

by David Tonghou Ngong

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 Challenges the dominant understanding of the Holy Spirit in African Christian salvific discourse. This study proposes that the Holy Spirit be perceived as enabling critical philosophical rationality and the development of science and technology in Africa, features that are crucial to enhancing the well-being of the continent and its people.
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Sin, Purification And Sacrifice In Leviticus And In Madagascar

by Olivier Randrianjaka

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 This book compares Leviticus rituals and Malagasy practices. It explores why Malagasy Christians embrace Leviticus while Western churches dismiss it. Identifying correspondences, the study examines purification, sacrifice, and sin in both contexts. It highlights shared themes and sacrificial significance in a concise analysis.
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Kony As Moses - Old Testament Texts And Motifs In The Early Years Of The Lordâ€™S Resistance Army, Uganda

by Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala

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 This book is in the academic discipline of critical biblical studies. It analyses the use of the bible in Uganda with specific refence to the LRA.
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Maasai Women And The Old Testament - Towards An Emancipatory Reading

by Hoyce Jacob Lyimo-Mbowe

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 Are the popular interpretations of the Bible in Africa improving or downplaying womenâ€™s status on the continent? This book analyses the reading of some biblical texts in the Maasai context.
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Oaths Of Peace - Theology Of Peacebuilding In Southern Sudan

by Daniela Lucia Rapisarda

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 Drawing on interviews with participants in the People to People Peacemaking Process in Southern Sudan, Oaths of Peace makes a rich contribution to the study of grassroots religious peacebuilding, and develops a model of contextual theology that integrates the two dimensionsâ€"often seen as oppositional--of inculturation and liberation.
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