Ezra Chitando

African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Adogame, Afe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora and gendered societies. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317184171
• Artikelnr.: 44873826

Autorenporträt

Dr Afe Adogame teaches Religious Studies and World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the General Secretary of the African Association for the Study of Religion (AASR). He is the author of Celestial Church of Christ: The Politics of Cultural Identity in a West African Prophetic-Charismatic Movement (1999); and co-edited European Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa (2004); Religion in the Context of African Migration (2005); Unpacking the New: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in Africa and Beyond (2008) and Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora: The Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage (2008). Dr. Ezra Chitando teaches History and Phenomenology of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe. He also serves as a Consultant on HIV and AIDS for the World Council of Churches (WCC). He is the author of Singing Culture: A Study of Gospel Music in Zimbabwe (2002); Living with Hope: African Churches and HIV/AIDS. Vol. 1 (2007); Acting in Hope: African Churches and HIV/AIDS, Vol. 2 (2007) and Troubled but not Destroyed: African Theology and HIV (2009). Dr. Bolaji Bateye teaches Religious Studies and Gender Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University and she is a Resource Person at the OAU Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies. Dr Bateye was a Leventis Scholar at the Centre for African Studies, SOAS, London in 2006. A budding scholar, widely published in books and journals including: 'Forging Identities: Women as Participants and Leaders in the Church among the Yoruba", in Studies in World Christianity (2007); 'Paradigmatic Shift: Reconstruction of Female Leadership Roles in New Generation Churches in South-western Nigeria' in Afe Adogame, et al. (eds.), Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora: The Appropriation of a Shattered Heritage (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Ulrich Berner; Introduction: African traditions in the study of religion in Africa: contending with gender
the vitality of indigenous religions and diaspora
Ezra Chitando
Afe Adogame and Bolaji Bateye; Part I Religion and Society
Religion in Society: Approaches to peacemaking in Africa: Obuntu perspectives from Western Kenya
Lucas Nandih Shamala; Religious pluralism and secularization in the Nigerian religious sphere
Danoye Oguntola Laguda; Faith
spiritualism and materialism: understanding the interfaces of religion and the economy in Nigeria
Olutayo Adesina; Towards a civil religion in Nigeria
Musa Barnabas Gaiya; The implications of ancestral veneration manifesting in national symbols for national integration and moral transformation in Nigeria
Jacob Kehinde Ayantayo; The concept of expiatory sacrifice in the early Church and in African indigenous religious traditions
Samson Adetunji Fatokun. Part II Diaspora
Youth and Gender Dynamics: Researching African immigrant religions: boundaries
belonging and access
Abel Ugba; Ã?ìnà obìnrin kò seé dáké lásán
bà a dáké lásán
enu nÃà yo ni: women's leadership roles in AládÅrà churches in Nigeria and the USA
Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Elisha P. Renne; The place of second-generation youth in West Indian Pentecostalism in the diaspora - New York and London
Janice McLean; Religion and masculinities in Africa: an opportunity for Africanization
Ezra Chitando; Rethinking women
nature and ritual purity in Yoruba religious traditions
Bolaji Bateye; The impact of Christian women's organizations on Nigerian society
Dorcas Olu Akintunde; The Northern Nigerian Muslim woman: between economic crisis and religious puritanism
Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina; Index.