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Cruciform Theology and its Implications for African Christianity [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
Christianity has, since the beginning of the 20th century, experienced an unmatched numerical growth in Africa. Presently, Africa occupies a central position in global Christianity, as evidenced by the active involvement of numerous African churches in ...
Isaac Boaheng
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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A critical assessment of Bediako’s incarnational Christological model as a response to the foreignness of Christ in African Christianity

In die Skriflig, 2016
Some African Christians continue to rely on traditional spiritual powers as a means of addressing their spiritual insecurity. In their perception Christ is regarded as being foreign to African spirituality and treated accordingly with the gospel seen as ...
Raymond Potgieter, Christopher Magezi
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Esoteric Signs and Symbols in Akan-Ewe Socioreligioculture: Indigenous Constructs for Post-Missionary Theology and Christology [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
This study explores esoteric signs and symbols within Akan-Ewe sociocultural and spiritual traditions to uncover indigenous theological and Christological constructs for post-missionary Africa.
Edward Agboada
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Patient‐ and caregiver‐reported barriers to chemotherapy in nine sub‐Saharan African countries: A cross‐sectional survey among population‐based registries

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? Increasing cancer incidence and mortality in low‐ and middle‐income countries has heightened concerns about limited resources and barriers to care. This challenge is particularly urgent in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where cancer rates are rising sharply. Here, data from population‐based cancer registries in nine SSA countries was assessed to
Tamara König, Nikolaus Christian Simon Mezger, Ole Stoeter, Phoebe Mary Amulen, Margaret Borok, Gladys C. Chesumbai, Moudiongui MBoungou Dimitry, Ima‐Obong Ekanem, Adugna Fekadu, Bakarou Kamaté, William Muller, Alex Alain Kabena Nzambikolo, Abidemi Omonisi, Furaha Serventi, Markus Wallwiener, Biying Liu, Donald Maxwell Parkin, Pablo Sandro Carvalho Santos, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Eric Sven Kroeber   +19 more
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REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH? ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND SALVATION THEOLOGY IN AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY

Scriptura, 2013
The growth and development within African Christianity have attracted the attention of Christian theological researchers in recent decades. However, this has obviously not witnessed a corresponding growth in environmental theology. This paper argues that
Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo
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Prevalence and risk factors for postpartum depression and stress among mothers of preterm and low birthweight infants admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit in Accra, Ghana

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 169, Issue 1, Page 131-137, April 2025.
Abstract To determine the prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) and postpartum stress (PPS) and identify associated risk factors among mothers of preterm and low birth weight (LBW) infants. We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected from 255 mothers with preterm and LBW infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Korle ...
John Pellegrino, Paddington T. Mundagowa, Kwame Sarfo Sakyi, Prince Gyebi Owusu, Babbel Agbinko‐Djobalar, Leila M. Larson, Mufaro Kanyangarara   +6 more
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Power-Purity Pneumatology for African Pentecostalism

African Theological Journal for Church and Society
Africa once again occupies a strategic place in the history of Christianity as one of its chief centres when the religion is somewhat receding in the West.
Abel A. Alamu
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Woman‐centeredness of family planning care and associated factors in a semi‐urban health district in West Cameroon

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To measure the woman‐centeredness of family planning (FP) care and determine its correlates in West Cameroon. Methods We conducted a cross‐sectional analytical study from August to November 2024 in the Mifi Health District (MHD). We included women receiving FP care in all the public health facilities. We collected data were using the
Jovanny Tsuala Fouogue, Wiliams Carter Kenne Djuatio, Armand Tiotsia Tsapi, Ymele Florent Fouelifack, Madye Ange Ngo Dingom, Estelle Diane Modjo Kamdem, Jeanne Hortence Fouelifack Fouedjio   +6 more
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The changing faces of African Independent Churches as development actors across borders

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
The religious transnationalism evident in the 21st century has heralded a new paradigm of religion ‘made to travel’ as adherents of religions navigate various cultural frontiers within Africa, Europe and North America.
Babatunde A. Adedibu
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