Religion, Disability, and Sustainable Development in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ohajunwa, Chioma; Chitando, Ezra; Dube, Kudakwashe 'AK'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Overall, the book invites researchers to consider how African religious, theological, and philosophical ideas can help towards the inclusion of people with disabilities in the 2030 development agenda in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040309735
• Artikelnr.: 72786952

Autorenporträt

Dr Chioma Ohajunwa is Senior Lecturer at the Africa Centre for Inclusive Health Management, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, and also worked at the Division of Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, Global Health, Stellenbosch University. Her work is in the areas of disability, spirituality, Indigenous knowledge, wellbeing, decoloniality, and, more recently, how these inform an inclusive framework for health and wellbeing within the African context. She is published locally and internationally. Kudakwashe 'AK' Dube is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Africa Disability Alliance and has over 30 years of experience designing, managing, evaluating, and monitoring development and disability programmes with international and grassroots movements. He is also chair of trustees of ADD International, which fights for independence, equality, and opportunities for disabled people living in poverty, alongside organisations of disabled people. Ezra Chitando serves as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. He is also Extraordinary Professor, the Desmond Tutu Centre for Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Religion, Disability and Sustainable Development in Africa
SDGs, Disability and Religion In the context of Poverty and socio-cultural
factors 2. Positive Perspectives on Disability in the Old Testament:
Pathways to Breaking the Disability-Poverty Nexus and Leaving No-One Behind
in Africa's Quest to Achieve Sustainable Development 3. Disentangling
Disability in Africa: A Panoramic view from critical disability studies on
Religion, Disability and Poverty in Africa 4. The African Network for
Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) on its quest to be a Regional
Disability Network guided by African wisdom 5. Socio-Cultural Perspective
on Disability as a Barrier to Sustainable Development in Africa SDGs,
Disability and Religion in the context of health and wellbeing 6. Exploring
the intersection of disability and religion in the context of Covid-19 and
sustainable development in Africa 7. Understanding Epilepsy in The Context
of African Indigenous Religions 8. Care Development: Botho Ethics, Ageing
and Disability 9. Sustainable Development Goal Achievements for People With
Disabilities In Africa: Role Of Christian-Muslim Religions In Tanzania
SDGs, Disability and Religion in the context of the disciplines 10. An
examination of the relationship between disability and the law and
religion: The Zimbabwean Disability Practice 11. Eco-Justice and Disability
Inclusion in Lusaka, Zambia: Towards an African Women's Theology of
Disability 12. Religion, Disability and Education in Africa: Perspectives
from Uganda 13. The Interplay of South African Indigenous Religions,
Disability and Sustainable Development Goals: Reconceptualizing Disability
in Inclusive Education SDGs, Disability and Religion in the context of
Gender 14. Disability, Gender-based violence and Development in Africa: The
Case of Eswatini 15. Women with Disability's Access to Sexual Reproductive
Health and Well-being in Nairobi, Kenya: Towards a Theology of Belonging
16. Transformative Work of Pentecostal Groups in Addressing Gender-Based
Violence against People Living with Disability in Nigeria 17. Obstetric
Fistula - A disability that affects the health and well-being of women:
Reflections from the Malawian Context