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Review of 'African Public Theology' [PDF]

, 2020
This seminal book on African Public Theology appeared early in 2020, a year disrupted by the Coronavirus pandemic that – together with other crises of economic, political and ecological nature – is severely impacting the African Continent. More than ever
Gideon van der Watt
core  

Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya. [PDF]

Med Anthropol Q
Abstract This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it,
Ameso EA.
europepmc   +2 more sources

AFRICAN POSTFOUNDATIONAL PRACTICAL THEOLOGY

Acta Theologica, 2017
Practical Theology is located in a fragile, vulnerable space between various disciplines, where it is exposed to multiple different narratives. The author proposes a postfoundational, narrative approach to Practical Theology that favours the local over the global and the specific over generalisations.
openaire   +5 more sources

Navigating marital tensions between African traditions and Western influences: Emic insights for pastoral intervention

Theologia Viatorum
This article examines the perspectives and lived experiences of church and community members regarding marital tensions that emerge at the intersection of African indigenous traditions and Western influences on African marriages.
Primrose Makumbini, Vhumani Magezi, Patrick Nanthambwe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brothers and sisters, can you hear us? Remarks on facilitating a productive dialogue between the Western and African notions of practical theology in light of the decolonisation discourse

In die Skriflig, 2017
This article is conducted within the framework of the inter-contextual dialogue between the Western and African notions of practical theology. It sets out to probe the usefulness of the notion of decolonisation in the design of practical theology.
Alfred R. Brunsdon
doaj   +1 more source

Towards understanding theological positions informing migrant ministries

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
Christian practical ministry should be driven by a thorough theological framework. Theological theory informs ministerial practices. To understand some theology driven (theologies driving) actions, it is imperative to conduct empirical studies to discern
Vhumani Magezi, Christopher Magezi
doaj   +1 more source

The realist and onto-relational frame of T. F. Torrance’s Incarnational and Trinitarian theology [PDF]

, 2014
It is almost a truism to say that Torrance’s theology is incarnational and Trinitarian, so central were these two foci to his entire theological work.
Deddo, Gary
core   +2 more sources

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source