AbstractThe paper explores the African communal ethic of ubuntu and its possible contribution to prevention of HIV and AIDS and tocommunal healing in general.

AbstractMbuya Nehanda, an African indigenous priestess and freedom fighter, uttered the words “my bones shall rise again” when the British colonialists sentenced her to death in 1862, for leading a resistance movement against the infiltration of colonizers in her motherland, contemporary Zimbabwe. Her story and words articulate resistance against bodily, spiritual, cultural, economic, political, and intellectual annihilation through the forces of colonization. Her story and words provide a decolonizing African feminist framework discourse, which is Earth and spiritually centered. This chapter congregates the narratives of various legendary African women to highlight decolonizing, depatriarchalizing, and anti-anthropocentric feminist knowledge production they model. By reading the narratives of African legendary women, who were spiritual, environmental, political, and freedom icons, this chapter seeks to highlight Africa-informed knowledges about gender construction and liberation from various forms of oppression.

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AbstractThe chapter’s exposition highlights that African eco-feminisms are founded upon African cosmologies; African histories; and contemporary experiences and movements; and that they are intersectional, interreligious, ecumenical, and activist in character. The chapter also explores the linkage and experiences of Mother Earth and Mother Africa and their intersections with slavery, colonialism, neo-liberalism, gender, class, race, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, gender-based violence, and postcoloniality. The chapter’s exposition further indicates that African eco-feminisms are a depatriarchal, decolonial and an oppositional discourse, seeking to be in solidarity with Mother Earth and all groups that find themselves marginalized by the exploitation and oppression of Planet Earth. The chapter highlights how the book contents explore African eco-feminisms from the perspectives of African women writers. This book is therefore a contribution to African literary criticism, African Indigenous knowledges, Global South theologies, earth-care theologies and feminist /womanist eco-critical movements.

AbstractThis chapter presents a narrative reflection of all the chapters in this volume. Highlighting the transformative role of African women, particularly elderly women, in shaping philosophical and ethical narratives within the traditional hearth setting. It places an interest in the interconnectedness of humans and nature, spotlighting the symbolic inclusion of animals within the community and the philosophy of ubuntu, encapsulated in “umuntu ngu muntu nga bantu,” which underscores human interdependence as emphasized in the volume. The chapter identified the displacement of women from traditional power spaces, leading to, among others, the establishment of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in 1989. It highlights how African women scholars within the Circle challenge patriarchal philosophies, contributing to gender-inclusive liberation. Written in a poetic style, the chapter invites a global dialogue, emphasizing the crucial interconnectedness of all individuals (and all creation) in fostering liberated and just societies for current and future generations.

AbstractUsing contextual, postcolonial, gender and liberation perspectives, the article seeks to read the Bible in the light of aging processes

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AbstractAlthough the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print.

Abstract[republication] Musa W. Dube As a young girl, one of the derisive comments I frequently heard at our family retail shop was: “Dilo ke lona le tsile le tlola melolwane le melolwane; dinoka le dinokana, le tsile go bapala kwano. ” That is, “you came crossing one boundary after another, one river after another to trade in our country. ” The subtext in the statement was that we were foreigners who did not deserve, or had merely been favored to access economic resources in Botswana. My parents and five of my eldest siblings were born in Zimbabwe, and the last five of us were born in Botswana. Before we migrated to Botswana, it had happened that the village where my parents lived was declared a white man’s ranch. Indigenous people in the area were given two choices: to remain in their homes and assume the status of servants to the owner...

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Abstract[republication] This paper investigates how native languages were used by colonizers to subordi nate the colonized. The paper uses an example from the Setswana language of Botswana to investigate the colonial translations of the Bible and compilation of the first dictionaries and to show how they were informed by their time. It focuses on the translation of Badimo (Ancestral Spirits) and other related words to show how the Setswana language was employed for imperial ends in colonial times. The paper also examines how the subsequent versions of the Setswana Bible and dictionaries reflect the growing spirit of decolonization as colonized subjects became involved in writing their own languages. Given that colonial translations remained in circulation beyond the period of colonization, this paper also documents how native readers developed strategies of resistance by reading the Bible as a divining text to get in touch with Badimo, thereby subverting the colonial translations that equated the latter with evil powers.

Abstract[Republication of a journal article of the same name] This paper investigates how native languages were used by colonizers to subordinate the colonized. The paper uses an example from the Setswana language of Botswana to investigate the colonial translations of the Bible and compilation of the first dictionaries and to show how they were informed by their time.1 It focuses on the translation of Badimo [Ancestral Spirits] and other related words to show how the Setswana language was employed for imperial ends in colonial times. The paper also examines how the subsequent versions of the Setswana Bible and dictionaries reflect the growing spirit of decolonization as colonized subjects became involved in writing their own languages. Given that colonial translations remained in circulation beyond the period of colonization, this paper also documents how native readers developed strategies of resistance by reading the Bible as a divining text to get in touch with Badimo, thereby subverting the colonial translations that equated the latter with evil powers.

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AbstractThe article carries out a postcolonial feminist reading of Genesis 34, taking up the intersection of gender, race, class and violence in the colonial space.

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AbstractIn the globalization era, justice-seeking feminist theologies are challenged to sharpen and reposition themselves to speak to the issues of the time by adopting new methods, topics, and frameworks. Consequently, “the boundaries of theology need to be redrawn in the light of the creation of new global cultures” and “crucial to the task of rewriting the story of feminist theology in the light of globalization is reflecting on the nature of a theological perspective it makes.” This chapter explores the interrelations of globalization, a world scripture (the Bible), and the vision of feminist theologies.

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AbstractBiAS 39 is an essay collection on women’s Liberation Theology in West Africa, issued as one of three regional volumes commissioned in preparation of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’ (CIRCLE) return to Ghana, its place of birth, after 35 years. The volumes rose within the context of preparing the meeting in July 2024 by remembering the founding members of the CIRCLE. The three regional volumes focus on exploring South (BiAS 41), East/Central (BiAS 40) and West African (BiAS 39) womanist/feminist Liberation Theology generated since the launch of the CIRCLE in 1989. The contributions on the lives and works of groundbreaking African women in the Theology of Liberation constitute an international, interreligious, and interdisciplinary compendium for redemptive theological research. The book is dedicated to Rabiatu Deinyo Ammah, the first Muslim woman in the CIRCLE and one its founding matriarchs.

AbstractThe link between inequality, poverty and gender discrimination on the other hand is very strong.... The starting point for an adequate response is the understanding that any bid to halt the AIDS epidemic has to include determined efforts to eradicate poverty.

AbstractThe chapter explores translations of Christian hymns and scriptures during the modern colonial times, investigating how colonial ideology permeated these works. It also summaries African scholarly research that has investigated the area, from various regions and languages of the continent.

AbstractThe chapter investigates the link between modern colonialism, violence and biblical texts in the African context.

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AbstractThis chapter uses African verbal arts to examine African traditional religion for the illumination, provides about the location and role of the African woman in selected African communities. Religion and religious consciousness are common denominators of every society's quest for self-knowledge. Growing up in the colonized and Christianized African world, the author was introduced to Western religious thought through both church and school. Most societies across the world have accepted Western Christian thought about women in general and its impact on African women in particular. For contemporary African nations and with regard to colonization, part of the rupture experienced by citizens in general and leaders in particular is the lessening of the place of women in many aspects of social experience. The contemporary African Christian continues to have the option to subscribe to various alternatives, especially with regards to where the African ancestors spend eternity.

AbstractFeasting on the Gospels is a new seven-volume series that follows up on the success of the Feasting on the Word series to provide another trusted preaching resource, this time on the most prominent and preached upon books in the Bible: the four Gospels. With contributions from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels includes completely new material that covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it suitable for both pastors who preach from the lectionary and pastors who do not. Moreover, these volumes incorporate the unique format of Feasting on the Word, giving preachers four perspectives to choose from for each Gospel passage: theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical. Feasting on the Gospels offers a unique resource for all who preach, either continuously or occasionally, on the Gospels. Feasting on the Gospels-Mark: A Feasting on the Word Commentary (9780664259914)

AbstractFeasting on the Gospels is a new seven-volume series that follows up on the success of the Feasting on the Word series to provide another trusted preaching resource, this time on the most prominent and preached upon books in the Bible: the four Gospels. With contributions from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels includes completely new material that covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it suitable for both pastors who preach from the lectionary and pastors who do not. Moreover, these volumes incorporate the unique format of Feasting on the Word, giving preachers four perspectives to choose from for each Gospel passage: theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical. Feasting on the Gospels offers a unique resource for all who preach, either continuously or occasionally, on the Gospels. Feasting on the Gospels-Mark: A Feasting on the Word Commentary (9780664259914)

AbstractThe Global Bible Commentary invites its users to expand their horizon by reading the Bible with scholars from all over the world and from different religious persuasions. These scholars have approaches and concerns that often are poles apart. Yet they share two basic convictions: biblical interpretation always matters; and reading the Bible “with others” is highly rewarding. Each of the short commentaries of the Global Bible Commentary is a readily accessible guide for reading a biblical book. Written for undergraduate and seminary students and their teachers, as well as for pastors, priests, and Adult Sunday School classes, it introduces the users to the main features of the biblical book and its content.Yet each short commentary does more. It also brings us a precious gift, namely the opportunity of reading this biblical book as if for the first time. By making explicit the specific context and the concerns from which she/he reads the Bible, the scholar points out to us the significance of aspects of the biblical text that we simply took for granted or overlooked.Need more info? Download Global Bible Commentary Marketing Brochure PDFFree Adobe Acrobat Reader!If any book demonstrates the value of cultural criticism and the importance of particularity in interpretation, this is it! Scholars from diverse social locations in every continent bring their distinctive context to bear on the act of interpreting. In so doing, they shed eye-opening light on the biblical texts. The resulting critical dialogue with the Bible exposes the oppressive as well as the liberating dynamics of the texts while at the same time showing how the Bible might address the social, political, cultural, and economic dynamics of our world today. This collection can change the way you read the Bible—scholars and students, clergy and laity alike. -David Rhoads, Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, ILContributors:Daniel Patte, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. A French Huguenot (Église Réformée de France), he taught two years in Congo-Brazzaville, and “read the Bible with” people in France, Switzerland, South Africa, Botswana, the Philippines, as well as in the USA. His publications include books on hermeneutics and semiotics (such as Early Jewish Hermeneutics, 1975; The Religious Dimensions of Biblical Texts, 1990); on Paul and Matthew (such as Paul's Faith and the Power of the Gospel, 1983; The Gospel according to Matthew: A Structural Commentary on Matthew's Faith, 1987), as well as, most directly related to the GBC, Ethics of Biblical Interpretation (1995), The Challenge of Discipleship (1999), Reading Israel in Romans: Legitimacy and Plausibility of Divergent Interpretations (ed. with Cristina Grenholm, 2000), The Gospel of Matthew: A Contextual Introduction (with Monya Stubbs, Justin Ukpong, and Revelation Velunta, 2003). José Severino Croatto,. Professor of Exegesis, Hebrew, and Religious Studies, at Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos (ISEDET). A contributor to Revista de Interpretación Bíblica Latinoamericana (= RIBLA) and the Movement of Popular Reading of the Bible, he published 22 books, including three volumes on hermeneutics, Exodus, A Hermeneutics of Freedom (1981); Biblical Hermeneutics. Toward a Theory of Reading as the Production of Meaning (1987); Hermenéutica Práctica. Los principios de la hermenéutica bíblica en ejemplos (2002); three volumes on Génesis 1-11 (1974; 1986; 1997), the last one, Exilio y sobrevivencia. Tradiciones contraculturales en el Pentateuco; three volumes on the book of Isaiah (1988; 1994; 2001), the last one, Imaginar el futuro. Estructura retórica y querigma del Tercer Isaías (Isaías 56-66); two volumes on Religious Studies (1994; 2002), the last one, Experiencia de lo sagrado y tradiciones religiosas. Estudio de fenomenología de la religión (2002). Rev. Dr. Nicole Wilkinson Duran, after teaching New Testament in the USA, South Africa (Zululand), in Turkey, is currently teaching part-time at Rosemont College and Villanova University, and with her husband raising twin sons in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. She has published articles on topics ranging from gender and race in Esther, to the unread Bible in Toni Morrison’s novels, to body symbolism in the story of John the Baptist’s execution, and edited (with G. Phillips) Reading Communities Reading Scripture (2002). She is an ordained Presbyterian minister and does occasional preaching and adult Christian education. Teresa Okure, SHCJ, a graduate from the University of Ibadan, La Sorbonne, École Biblique of Jerusalem, and Fordham University (Ph.D.), is Professor of New Testament and Gender Hermeneutics at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She is or has been a member of the executive committees of several associations, including EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, as Executive Secretary), the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS), and the Society for New Testament Studies (SNTS). She published more than 100 articles and six books including The Johannine Approach to Mission: a Contextual Study of John 4:1-42 (1988), ed. Evaluating the Inculturation of Christianity in Africa (1990) and ed. To Cast Fire upon the Earth: Bible and Mission. Collaborating in Today’s Multicultural Global Context (2000). Archie Chi_Chung Lee, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. A specialist of cross-textual hermeneutics, especially Chinese text and the post-exilic biblical tradition. He is the author of several books including A Commentary on the Book of Koheleth, (in Chinese 1990), Doing Theology with Asian Resources: Ten Years in the Formation of Living Theology in Asia (1993, ed.) and Interpretation of the Megilloth (in Chinese 2003) and numerous articles including "Genesis One and the Plagues Tradition in Ps. 105," Vetus Testamentum, 40, (1990): 257-263, "Biblical Interpretation in Asian Perspective," Asia Journal of Theology, 7, (1993): 35-39, "The Chinese Creation Myth of Nu Kua and the Biblical Narrative in Genesis 1-11," Biblical Interpretation 2 (1994): 312-324, "Cross-Textual Hermeneutics on Gospel and Culture". Asia Journal of Theology 10 (1996): 38-48 and "Biblical Interpretation of the Return in the Postcolonial Hong Kong," Biblical Interpretation, 9 (1999): 164-173.

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AbstractMositi Torontle was born and raised in Francistown, Botswana. She is a graduate of the University of Botswana with a B.A. Hum. (1989) and a teacher by profession. She is actively involved in the Botswana Writers Association, the church, women issues, and singing. The Victims was Torontle’s first major work. She has published several short stories in the monthly journal Kutlwano. She has also published several poems in various journals and books.

AbstractThe article explores biblical texts and African oratures, foregrounding new questions concerning HIV and AIDS and the various context of precolonial, struggle for independence, post-independence, cold war and globalization. The story of Mark 5: 21-43 is read within these various contexts, underlining the possibility of liberation through the trope of resurrection.

AbstractThe HIV pandemic has caused serious challenges for the Church as well as for theology. The pandemic has brought enormous human suffering to individuals and has affected families and entire societies. In this context, churches need to listen and to learn, and not least to respond, to thereby mold their own actions and futures. In so doing, this book aims to enable churches to become more HIV and AIDS competent. Vulnerability, Churches, and HIV includes two kinds of contributions. First, researchers present their thoughts about theology, the church, and HIV. A pastoral letter from the bishops of the Church of Sweden provides a second perspective. The letter makes recommendations to decision-making bodies, patent holders, and decision makers in the pharmaceutical industry. The letter also guides parishes and church workers.Contributors include editor Göran Gunner, Musa W. Dube, Susanne Rappmann, Kenneth R. Overberg, Edwina Ward, and the bishops of the Church of Sweden. The book is the first volume in the Church of Sweden Research Series.CONTRIBUTORS:Prof. Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana;Dr. Edwina Ward, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa;Prof. Kenneth R. Overberg, Xavier University, USA;Dr. Susanne Rappman, Sweden;Archbishop Anders Wejryd, Church of Sweden, Sweden.Göran Gunner is a researcher at the Church of Sweden Research Department and an associate professor at the University of Uppsala. He is author and editor of several books in Swedish about freedom of religion and other human rights issues.

AbstractThe chapter underlines and highlights ways of mainstreaming gender and decoloniality into the study of African Indigenous Religions. The chapter is an important introduction to the untutored by laying out the vital structures of African Indigenous Religions while highlighting points of gender-sensitive aspects. The chapter identifies the main structure of African Indigenous Religion/s as consisting of the Divine, Ancestors, and the Earth Community. It underlines that in West African cosmology, the Divine is followed by gods and goddesses, who precede ancestors. The paper investigates how gender was conceptualized across these key areas. It also highlights how the colonial history impacted the African worldview and shifted gender towards a patriarchal worldview, hence underlining decolonization as vital to the study of African Indigenous Religion/s.

AbstractIntroductionProblematizing of Frameworks of AIR(s)Community, Postcolonialism, and FeminismThe Future of Feminist African Religion

AbstractThe chapter explores the construction of space, postcoloniality, religion and gender among African writers.

AbstractDie postkoloniale Theologie ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem der wichtigsten und innovativsten Felder innerhalb der interkulturellen Theologie avanciert. TheologInnen aus Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika haben begonnen, die Konstruktionen postkolonialer Identitäten theologisch zu reflektieren. Dabei nehmen sie Bezug auf kulturwissenschaftliche Diskurse, die in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen haben. Bislang sind allerdings postkoloniale theologische Entwürfe im deutschsprachigen Raum weitgehend unbekannt geblieben. Dieser Band führt zunächst in die Entwicklungsgeschichte und gegenwärtige zentrale Positionen der postkolonialen Theologie ein. Daran anschließend werden die wichtigsten Aufsätze aus den letzten Jahren erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung publiziert, um Studierenden und allen Interessierten den Zugang zu dieser theologischen Richtung zu erleichtern.

AbstractThe opening of Psalm 23 is captivating and remains one of the most memorable citations in the collection of world literature and scriptures. It states that, ‘God is my Shepherd, I shall lack nothing’ (v. 1, my translation). The rest of what follows, in my view, elaborates the opening statement, with many more powerful, memorable, and beautiful sentences. The opening statement is, therefore, the theme and meaning of the whole psalm. The power of the statement can be located, perhaps, in three factors for the believing reader who identifies with David the psalmist. First, the assurance that one is not alone; rather one has a shepherd. The image of a shepherd articulates continuous presence of someone or something that looks out for you. Second, the identity of the shepherd, who is named as God, is awesome. While shepherds come in all sorts of classes, genders, ages, and cultures, the idea (generally of low class) that God, the Creator of the universe and the ultimate power of goodness, cares so much so that God takes up the role of being ‘my Shepherd’ is overwhelmingly humbling, assuring, and powerful. It also asserts the importance of each person of faith who reads the Psalm. The third, and perhaps a logical part, is of course the assertion and assurance that this shepherd cares and ensures that all my needs are met, not just now, but also for the rest of my days – ‘I shall lack nothing!’ To fulfill such a role consistently, the shepherd cares for both the flock and its pastures. Psalm 23 is my favorite psalm for reasons stated here and many more. In this essay, I share my historical, autobiographical, and contextual journeys with Psalm 23 and its musical afterlives in Botswana....

AbstractThis wide-ranging reader provides a comprehensive survey of the interaction between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies. It examines how various empires such as the Persian and Roman affected biblical narratives. It demonstrates how different biblical writers such as Paul, Matthew and Mark handled the challenges of empire. It includes examples of the practical application of postcolonial criticism to biblical texts. It considers contemporary issues such as diaspora, race, representation and territory. It features editorial commentary that draws out the key points to be made and creates a coherent narrative. - Theoretical practices -- Empires old and new -- Empire and exegesis -- Postcolonial concerns

AbstractThis book brings together twelve essays on a wide and rich range of topics, discussions and methodologies in African theology today. Even the book's limitations provide an insight into the situation: its variety also indicates the absence of comprehensive and sustained discussion flowing from the economic and institutional limitation of Africa where research in theology is often beyond the means of many theologians. Then there is the difficulty of staying abreast of continually changing contexts and events in Africa itself. For all of these reasons then, a compelling introduction to a dynamic analysis and conversation.

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AbstractThe article theorizes the Ghanaian Sankofa symbol and applies the framework to assess the work of the Circle of African Women Theologians in the past thirty-five years (1989–2023). It is highlighted that the Sankofa symbol denotes movement and activity in the cosmology and African Indigenous Religious and cultural thought, for history, culture, spirituality, economics, and political relationships, among others, are not regarded as static. It is proposed that the Sankofa philosophical framework entails a three-time framework: namely, the present, the past, and the future, which are repeated multiple times on the journey of life, reading, interpretation, and theologizing. The Sankofa symbol also denotes the interconnection between these three phases of life. The article thus assesses The Circle of African Women’s Theologian’s multiple Sankofa acts in African Indigenous Religions in the past thirty-five years. The work of women from East, West, South, and the African diaspora is assessed, and their major ideas are highlighted.

AbstractThis substantially revised edition has been expanded to include 16 new essays and a new section on postcolonial readings of scripture. It also contains a new introduction and an afterword by the editor, calling attention to new developments in biblical interpretation.

AbstractEver since independence from Britain in 1966, Lesotho has been an experimental laboratory of various governance models. The country has experienced multi-party models, plain dictatorships, one-party dominated models, military juntas and, recently, coalition governments. The advent of coalition politics since 2012 has brought a paradigmatic shift in the entire socio-political landscape in the country. This era has, hitherto, largely remained under-studied. Coalition Politics in Lesotho is the first book-long study specifically dedicated to this significant era in the country's history. Edited by the two leading politico-legal scholars on Lesotho, the book is a multi-disciplinary study of the implications of coalitions for governance and development.

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AbstractClick to read more about Talitha Cum! : the grace of solidarity in a globalized world by Mario Degiglio-Bellemare. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers

AbstractReligion, ethnicity and race are facets of identity that have become increasingly contested. The modern discipline of biblical studies developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies. The essays in this volume deal both with historical facets of ethnicity and race in antiquity, in particular in relation to the identities of Jews and Christians, and also with the critique of scholarly ideologies and racial assumptions which have shaped biblical studies.

AbstractAfrica has seen many political crises ranging from violent political ideologies, to meticulous articulated racist governance system, to ethnic clashes resulting in genocide and religious conflicts that have planted the seed of mutual suspicion.The masses impacted by such crises live with the past that has not passed. The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma examines Christian responses to the damaging impact of conflict on the collective memory. Troubled memory is a recipe for another cycle of conflict. While most academic works tend to stress forgiving and forgetting, they did not offer much as to how to deal with the unforgettable past. This book aims to fill this gap by charting an interdisciplinary approach to healing the corrosive memories of painful pasts. Taking a cue from the empirical expositions of post-apartheid South Africa, post-genocide Rwanda, the Congo Wars, and post-Red Terror Ethiopia, this volume brings together coherent healing approaches to deal with traumatic memory.

AbstractFor generations, the Bible has been employed by settler colonial societies as a weapon to dispossess Indigenous and racialized peoples of their lands, cultures, and spiritualties. Given this devastating legacy, many want nothing to with it. But is it possible for the exploited and their allies to reclaim the Bible from the dominant powers? Can it serve as an instrument for justice in the cause of the oppressed? Even a nonviolent weapon toward decolonization? In Unsettling the Word, over 60 Indigenous and Settler authors come together to wrestle with the Scriptures, rereading and re-imagining the ancient text for the sake of reparative futures.

AbstractThe article uses the format of ten commandments to give 10 critical issueds of HIV and AIDS engagements

Abstract[republication] The massive growth of Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCCs) constitutes a Pentecostal kairos in the global history of the Christian movement. In its current form, the Pentecostal movement spreads itself into politics, economics, cultural and social spheres, interacting with various disciplines all at once. Yet the massive growth and impact of PCCs has not attracted equivalent attention from scholars of religion in the African continent. This article highlights the PCCs’ kairos and the pentecostalisation of religion and society. It also challenges African scholars of religion to undertake interdisciplinary collaborative research projects in order to make meaningful contributions to the methods and theoretical implications for teaching religion in the PCCs kairos

AbstractD. presents fictional letters of Orpah to Ruth, which would never have been preserved because they reflect an oral culture. Those letters depict Orpah as one who returned to her own older mother, just as Ruth followed Naomi, her older mother-in-law. See also #1854. [Abstracted by: Jon L. Berquist.] Abstract Number: OTA24-2001-OCT-1857

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AbstractThe world is increasingly assuming the characteristics of a "global village," as transportation and information technologies make travel and communications around the globe ever quicker and easier. The world of biblical scholarship has not been immune to such changes. Increasingly, biblical scholars everywhere recognize that they are "reading the Bible in the global village," and that as they do so they must be aware of their particular contexts for reading the Bible, and of the relationships and tensions between the global and the local, the general and the particular. This volume, which derives from the 2000 SBL International Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, presents essays by eight scholars who all either come from Africa or have strong interests in African biblical scholarship. Taken together, their work provides a good overview of and introduction to some of the key issues, themes, theories, and practices that are characteristic of the best contemporary biblical study in Africa.

AbstractChurches need to engage with men in order to transform dangerous ideas about manhood in Africa. The HIV epidemic calls for the immediate action on attitudes to sex and sexual violence (Chitando 2007: 46). In the age of HIV and AIDS, masculinity and

AbstractThe Trump neo-liberal and global warming era has intensified migration, highlighting the diasporic space and global structures as the context of theological inquiry. It is signified by the rise of overt sexism, racism, classism, anthropocentricism, Islamophobia and intensified conservatism that determine who crosses the boundaries, the terms of their crossing and the hospitality they receive. President Trump's shocking statement that characterized some Two-Thirds World countries as S.H.I.T. Holes as well as his travel ban policies that targeted countries of particular religious faith, attest to overt racism. In this volume, African theological scholars challenge euro-centric racist-global immigration policies and propose the paradigm of breaking the master's S.H.I.T. Holes.

AbstractEver since independence from Britain in 1966, Lesotho has been an experimental laboratory of various governance models. The country has experienced multi-party models, plain dictatorships, one-party dominated models, military juntas and, recently, coalition governments. The advent of coalition politics since 2012 has brought a paradigmatic shift in the entire socio-political landscape in the country. This era has, hitherto, largely remained under-studied. Coalition Politics in Lesotho is the first book-long study specifically dedicated to this significant era in the country's history. Edited by the two leading politico-legal scholars on Lesotho, the book is a multi-disciplinary study of the implications of coalitions for governance and development.

AbstractThis volume highlights some of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians strategies. Circle ways of doing theology seek to confront all the factors that deny African women their human rights and dignity. It offers penetrating critiques of widely accepted theological frameworks, showing how embedded they are in colonial and patriarchal discourses. Pledges contained to transforming power come through the framework of Talitha Cum, the little girl who was called back to the circle of life.

AbstractAlthough the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print.