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The Concept of Botho and HIV/AIDS in Botswana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

The Concept of Botho and HIV/AIDS in Botswana

Ever since the publication of Placide Tempel's epoch-making work Bantu Philosophy, African philosophers have worked to dispel the myth that there is no metaphysics in Africa. In the East African context we remember the names of Joseph Nyasmi and Odera Oruka, and in the West African context, Pauline Hotoundji and Kwesi Wiredu have made monumental contributions to elucidate African metaphysics. This compendium, presented by a group of scholars from the University of Botswana, seeks to build bridges between the seemingly estranged disciplines of African metaphysics, existential philosophy, and economics in the contexts of HIV/AIDS.

Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Philosophy

The Bible : a history of interpretation and methods /Johanna Stiebert --An overview of the Old Testament /Lovemore Togarasei --Major theological themes in the Old Testament /Masego Kanis and Lovemore Togarasei --A survey of the New Testament /Lovemore Togarasei --Major themes in the New Testament /Tlali Lerotholi --Religion, race, gender, and identity /Musa Dube --Reading and understanding the Bible as an African /James N. Amanze --Introduction to Christian theology : its tasks and methods /James N. Amanze --African theology : a contextual analysis of Zimbabwe /Tabona Shoko --The role of liberation theology in the post-independent Africa and the world in the 21st century /Moji Africa Ruele -...

Mapping Eastleigh for Christian-Muslim Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Mapping Eastleigh for Christian-Muslim Relations

Can Christian-Muslim relations be better understood and even interfaith conflicts resolved if Christians and Muslims joined together in an existential and phenomenological engagement with common spatiality? To answer this question, 12 Christian students from St. Paul's University, Limuru, Kenya and 12 Muslim students from Eastleigh, Nairobi mapped the 12 streets of Eastleigh, a sprawling Nairobi suburb largely populated by Somali Muslims. The mapping method in the above exercise was phenomenological, that is, mapping spatiality as a 'lived experience' and interpreting spatial observations in light of individual and group existential experiences. The result of the mapping exercise was a radical transformation both in the Mappers' own self-perceptions as well as their perceptions of Christian- Muslim relations. The seven chapters in this unique book look at the above finding from different perspectives, both Christian and Muslim.

Disability, Society and Theology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Disability, Society and Theology

Persons with disabilities in Church and society : a historical and sociological perspective /Samuel Kabue --Claiming and developing a disability hermeneutics : towards a liberating theology of disability /Arne Fritzson --Perfect God and imperfect creation : in the image of God and disabled /Joseph D. Galgalo --Sin, suffering, and disability in God's world /A. Wati Longchar --One in Christ : priesthood of the disabled and the exercising of gifts /C.B. Peter --Biblical perspectives on disability /Sammy Githuku --Lazarus, come out! : how contextual Bible study can empower the disabled /Janet Lees --The Church, public policy, and disability concerns in Kenya /Phitalis Were Masakhwe --Cultural ba...

Absolute Power and other stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Absolute Power and other stories

The themes cover a wide range - from the tenacity with which old demagogues hold on to political power, to teenage love and infactuation in the village setting; family life with its challenge and inexorable attraction of married men to their extra-marital satisfaction.

Our Father
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Our Father

Our Father is an accessible but theologically astute book, employing sound biblical scholarship, systematic theological reflection, and socio-cultural assessments which aid understanding of the profound implications for our time in history and of the sixty-seven words that comprise the Lord's Prayer.

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies. This book provides an exploration of the ways in which war memory can be appropriated, neglected and disabled, but also “unlearned” and “decolonized”. The book offers an analysis of the experience of soldiers of colour in five novels published at the centenary of the First World War by David Diop, Raphaël Confiant, Fred Khumalo, Kamila Shamsie and Abdulrazak Gurnah, examining the poetics and the politics of the conflict’s commemoration. It explores continuities between WWI and earlier and later eruptions of violence, thus highlighting the long-lasting sequels of the first gl...

Mutira Mission
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Mutira Mission

"The author's painstaking research into a century of Anglican history in the Mount Kenya region has helped to establish the little known village of Mutira on the world map of the history of Christianity in Africa."--From back cover

The PhD Experience in African Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

The PhD Experience in African Higher Education

The PhD Experience in African Higher Education, edited by Ruth Murambadoro, John Mashayamombe, and uMbuso weNkosi, addresses the growing call to invest in the humanities and social sciences by exploring the nature of doctoral training in select institutions of higher learning in South Africa. In the past two decades, South Africa has become a key player in the global higher education landscape and dubbed the hub for doctoral training in Africa because of its developed educational infrastructure and highly ranked universities. Given South Africa’s positioning, the contributors in this volume argue that the government, donors, universities, and faculty have a socio-legal duty to ensure that ...

Researching AIDS, Sexuality and Gender
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Researching AIDS, Sexuality and Gender

The current HIV and AIDS regime has opened up unknown vistas in intellectual pursuits and knowledge creation. One such newly opened up area of research is studying HIV and AIDS in relation to gender issues. However, owing to the devastating nature of the epidemic, most studies tend to focus on women merely as an "at risk" population leaving aside the wider sociological dimensions that pertain to women's sexuality in general, issues of AIDS related stigma and discrimination and how it impacts on women's careers as economic contributors to society. The uniqueness of the present study lies in the fact that it embodies the author's triangulated research into the tripartite dimensions of HIV and AIDS, women's sexuality, and gender-sociology, all against the backdrop of analysing actual experiences of career women in Kenyan universities.