Religious Change in Zambia
Author: Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 071030000X
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Author: Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 071030000X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Wim M.J. van Binsbergen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1136134743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1981, Religious Change in Zambia is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle East Studies.
Author: Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1506461522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompeting for Caesar brings together, for the first time, key scholars working on various issues related to religion and public life in Zambia. They explore the interplay between religion and politics in Zambian society and how these religions manage and negotiate their identities in public life. This book analyzes recent religious dynamics in the nation's political life, and considers what constructive role religion could play to promote an alternative political vision to subvert neo-colonialism. Competing for Caesar carries forward a unique commitment on the part of Fortress Press to engage with the challenges and opportunities of Christianity in the Global South. The book will be of interest to scholars, professors, and students in a wide range of fields.
Author: Hugo F. Hinfelaar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789004101494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes an important contribution to the study of religion in Africa as it traces the often painful changes that occurred among the Bemba-speaking women of Zambia since the arrival of the Western Missionaries. The author offers us his life-long search for the bed-rock of traditional religion as a basis for genuine cultural/religious development.
Author: Giacomo Macola
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-08-31
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 904743319X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contrast to the rich tradition of academic analysis and understanding of the pre-colonial and colonial history of Zambia, the country’s post-colonial trajectory has been all but ignored by historians. The assumptions of developmentalism, the cultural hegemony of the United National Independence Party’s orthodoxy and its conflation with national interests, and a narrow focus on Zambia’s diplomatic role in Southern African affairs, have all contributed to a dearth of studies centring on the diverse lived experiences of Zambians. Inspired by an international conference held in Lusaka in August 2005, and presenting a broad range of essays on different aspects of Zambia’s post-colonial experience, this collection seeks to lay the foundations for a future process of sustained scholarly enquiry into the country’s most recent past.
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-05-12
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1000587622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith must act in order to address the challenge of climate change. Despite the fact that Africa has contributed relatively little to historic carbon emissions, the continent will be affected disproportionally by the increasing impact of anthropogenic climate change. Contributors to this book provide a range of rich case studies to investigate how religious traditions such as Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and indigenous faiths influence the worldviews and actions of their adherents. The chapters also interrogate how the moral authority and leadership provided by religion can be used to respond and adapt to the challenges posed by climate change. Topics covered include risk reduction and resilience, youth movements, indigenous knowledge systems, environmental degradation, gender perspectives, ecological theories, and climate change financing. This book will be of interest to scholars in diverse fields, including religious studies, sociology, political science, climate change and environmental humanities. It may also benefit practitioners involved in solving community challenges related to climate change. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1400876141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the contribution made by Christian missionaries to the formation of Northern Rhodesia based on firsthand information and study by the author, who has visited nearly every mission station in Northern Rhodesia, consulted missionary diaries, journals, and records. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Wim M.J. van Binsbergen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1136134662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1981, Religious Change in Zambia is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle East Studies.
Author: V. W. Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0429941692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of the Ndembu of Zambia, ritual is examined under two aspects: as a regulator of social relations over time and as a system of symbols. Social life is thereby given direction and meaning. An extended case-study of a series of ritual performances in the life of a single village community is analysed in order to estimate the effects of participation in these symbolic events on its component groups and personalities.
Author: Casey Golomski
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2018-06-04
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0253036488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.