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Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In Uganda, the ‘traditional’ wedding, wherein a groom brings money and gifts to his father‐in‐law's home, has long been understood as the ultimate demonstration of a man's social maturity. Yet masculine adulthood is becoming increasingly elusive as weddings become more difficult to afford.
Erin V. Moore, Nanna Schneidermann
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Conjure and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: Religious Elements in African American Magic

, 1997
Yvonne Chireau
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'A miracle from Nairobi': David B. Barrett and the quantification of world Christianity, 1957–1982 [PDF]

, 2017
This dissertation analyzes the role of quantification in the history of Christian mission by placing David B. Barrett’s World Christian Encyclopedia (1982) in its historical context.
Zurlo, Gina
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Sincere critique in Israeli filmmaking

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates an increasingly observable yet insufficiently studied phenomenon: the emphasis placed by artists on personal experience as the most legitimate inspiration for art. To this end, I introduce the term ‘sincere realism’ to describe an emerging form of personal cinema in Israel, illustrating how sincerity has evolved into ...
Maayan Cohen
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Perspectives on the Challenges of Christianity and African Traditional Religion throughout the Ages to Contemporary Times

, 2023
Francis Owusu Sarfo
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African Spirituality's Influence on the Slave Experience in America [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis examines African spirituality and its influence on the lives of enslaved Africans in America. Earlier historiography suggested that Christian beliefs had a profound impact on the cultural attitudes of the enslaved black populations. My thesis
Newman, Chris
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‘Evangelical Gitanos are a good catch’: masculinity, churches, and roneos★

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores Christian principles, imagery, and ideas shaping the (re)making of masculine ideals, behaviour, and identities among Pentecostal Gitanos in Spain. Scholarship on Pentecostal masculinities emphasizes that in cultural settings dominated by ‘macho’ and other chauvinistic principles, men find it challenging to comply with Pentecostal ...
Antonio Montañés Jiménez
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Public Theology and Leadership Rudiments in African Christianity: The Expectations and Deficiencies in Ghana

, 2023
Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong
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Conjure, Hoodoo, and the Cross: African Spirituality and the Slave Experience in Pre-Antebellum America [PDF]

, 2016
Arts and HumanitiesThis thesis examines African spirituality and its influence on the lives of enslaved Africans in America. Earlier historiography suggested that Christian beliefs had a profound impact on the cultural attitudes of the enslaved black ...
Newman, Chris
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Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this article, I examine practices of social detachment among West African migrants in urban Ghana. Faced with pressures arising from expectations of reciprocity, especially from kin back home, some migrants exert considerable efforts to break, if temporarily, with relations of mutual recognition and support, entering what I term migratory aloneness.
Michael Stasik
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