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The importation of western colonial Christianity and the performance of biblical discourse in Africa

, 2023
Itumeleng D. Mothoagae
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For the Good That We Can Do: African Presses, Christian Rhetoric, and White Minority Rule in South Africa, 1899-1924 [PDF]

, 2017
This research examines Christian rhetoric as a source of resistance to white minority rule in South Africa within African newspapers in the first two decades of the twentieth-century. Many of the African editors and writers for these papers were educated
Marsh, Ian
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Against interpretive exclusivism* Contre l'exclusivisme interprétatif

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for example based on measurement, comparison, and experiment.
Harvey Whitehouse
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Ghana's new christianity : pentecostalism in a globalising african economy

, 2005
Cédric Mayrargue
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The Holy Communion and African rituals: An encounter between African religion and Christianity

, 2020
Themba E. Ngcobo
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Creating an African American-Sounding TTS: Guidelines, Technical Challenges,and Surprising Evaluations [PDF]

arXiv
Representations of AI agents in user interfaces and robotics are predominantly White, not only in terms of facial and skin features, but also in the synthetic voices they use. In this paper we explore some unexpected challenges in the representation of race we found in the process of developing an U.S. English Text-to-Speech (TTS) system aimed to sound
arxiv  

The perplexity of Christmas trees: ageing, errantry, and intersectional time La perplexité des arbres de Noël : vieillissement, errance et temps intersectionnel

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What is offered by considering ageing, ethics, and intersectionality from a critical phenomenological perspective that draws upon critical race theory? Based upon an extended ethnography of African Americans raising children with illnesses and disabilities, I consider the Christmas trees that a grandmother lovingly decorated each year.
Cheryl Mattingly
wiley   +1 more source

“Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers”: Iwanaga Maki, Social Welfare Pioneer, and the jūjikai Women's Religious Order

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known ...
Gwyn McClelland
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Encountering Jesus in African Christianity: A Ghanaian evangelical/pentecostal thought on faith, experience, and hope in Christ

, 2006
J. Kwabena Asamoah‐Gyadu
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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