Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa
Author: Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-02-23
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1438429789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.
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Women and Religion in the African Diaspora
Author: R. Marie Griffith
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-09-22
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780801883699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa
Author: Nwando Achebe
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2020-07-14
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0821440802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.
Discovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership
Author: Priscilla Mtungwa Ndlovu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015-11-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781137526847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership introduces a new leadership model which takes into account the history, culture and economic environment of African women leaders to understand, discover, observe and share their personal leadership experiences.
On Spiritual Strivings
Author: Cynthia B. Dillard
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780791468128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers both a theoretical and concrete example of what W. E. B. Du Bois called “spiritual strivings.”
African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance
Author: Musa W. Dube
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-03-11
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1003852424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories. It considers the intersection of gender and spirituality in subverting patriarchy, colonialism, anthropocentricism, and capitalism as well as elevating African women to the social space of speaking as empowered subjects with public influence. The chapters examine historical, cultural, and religious African women legends who became champions of liberation and their approach to social justice. The authors suggest that their stories of resistance hold great potential for building justice-loving Earth Communities. This book will be of interest to scholars of religion, gender studies, indigenous studies, African studies, African-indigenous knowledges, postcolonial studies, among others.
Understanding Values Work
Author: Harald Askeland
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 3030377482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the core of institutional theories, ‘values’ is a central term and figures in most definitions; however it remains understudied and under-explored. The editors of this open access book identify a resurgence of interest in the values-construct which underpins discussions of identity, ‘ethos’ and the purpose/nature of public and civic welfare provision. Considering the importance of values and values work to social, material and symbolic work in organizations, individual chapters explore values work as performed in organizations and by leaders. Focusing on practices of values work, the book applies and combines different theoretical lenses exemplified by the integration of institutional perspectives with micro-level perspectives and approaches.
Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe, Volume 1
Author: Molly Manyonganise
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-04-10
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 3031245792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZimbabwe has invested in women’s emancipation and leadership while articulating a strong Pan-Africanist ideology, providing a valuable entry point into understanding the dynamics relating to women’s leadership in Africa. It is also characterised by radical religious pluralism, thereby facilitating an appreciation of the impact of religion on women’s leadership in Africa more generally. This volume reflects on the role of Zimbabwean women in religio-cultural leadership. It opens with an expansive literature review on leadership, with a specific focus on African women’s leadership in the context of global studies on leadership. The chapters then discuss the unique Zimbabwean women’s leadership roles in ecological conservation. Topics include disaster management, the SDGs, and ecological stewardship. The book closes with examining women’s leadership among adherents of African Indigenous Spirituality, such as among the Shona and Ndau ethnic groups. It will appeal to scholars across management, women’s studies, religion, and cultural studies contemplating on African women’s leadership in religion as well as other areas of life.
Women and Leadership in the Baptist Convention of South Africa
Author: Nelson Osamu Hayashida
Publisher: William Carey Library
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780878083534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership
Author: Priscilla Mtungwa Ndlovu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1137526858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership introduces a new leadership model which takes into account the history, culture and economic environment of African women leaders to understand, discover, observe and share their personal leadership experiences.
