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This volume critically reviews studies of age in Africa, and suggests the centrality of such paradigms in current and future studies of the continent. The contributors, representing current intellectual traditions in Europe, Africa, and North America, provide case studies that help illustrate, and discuss such paradigms. Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania are represented as case studies. The introduction provides a critique of such paradigms of age and gerontocracy, that is informed by current developments in anthropology, history and African Studies. This book presents one of the most comprehensive reviews of literature on the topic. Despite changes over time, the discussion of age in African development and politics is as central as ever.
Age groups --- Gerontocracy --- Older people --- 39 <6> --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Persons --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Political science --- Groups, Age --- Peer groups --- Social generations --- Social groups --- Cohort analysis --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie--Afrika --- Africa --- Politics and government. --- 39 <6> Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie--Afrika
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294.316.1 --- 241.1*31 --- Liberation theology. --- Christianity and other religions --- Theology of liberation --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Kairos documents --- Philosophy of liberation --- 241.1*31 Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie --- Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie --- 294.316.1 Boeddhisme: christendom --- Boeddhisme: christendom --- Buddhism. --- Lamaism --- Christian religion --- Christian moral theology --- Indian religions --- Liberation theology --- Buddhism
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Theology, according to liberation theologians is only a second step. The first is praxis. A liberating praxis puts the poor and the marginalised at the centre. It is found in the collective response of global religious communities responding to crises - and a global pandemic offers an important case in point, reminding religions of our shared humanity, and the need for interreligious cooperation and understanding to effect a positive response. In the context of seismic socio-economic and political change, religion provides a communal response for feeding the poor, fighting for their rights, and challenging the post-colonial financial model that is now beginning to lose its ground. This book blends an examination of emerging research on the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in marginalised communities, with the author's own research on social and poverty isolation in India, and his own experience as told in diaries written whilst in lockdown in a poor district of Santiago, Chile. It challenges majority world churches and religions in a post-pandemic world to learn from each other and from Jesus' own identification with the outcast, and urges them to take on a way of life and prophetic learning from the world of the poor.
Poverty --- Church work with the poor --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Religions --- Dialogue --- Religious aspects --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Relations --- Religious aspects
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Christianity and other religions --- Hinduism --- Christianity --- Hinduism. --- Relations --- Christianity.
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If God can be used by the powerful to justify violence in the name of order, he can also be used by the weak to illuminate the position of the victims of political conflict. Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God explores the theological possibilities of a God who is a prisoner and a victim of torture. The book relocates God to the horrors of the military abuse of human rights in Chile and the systematic rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aguilar argues that this theological exercise offers us new ways of understanding the abuse of power, whether it be the clerical abuse of children, violence against women, or homophobia. This examination of torture and rape becomes, through a theology of praxis and compliance, an examination of solidarity, love and affection. The book concludes with an exploration of the possibilities of a tortured God who liberates.
Suffering --- Torture --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- Christianity
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Presents the findings of an international research symposium, held at St Andrews University, Scotland, in July 2003. Contributors include both biblical scholars and anthropologists. The essays presented variously explore and review interdisciplinary links, innovations and developments between anthropology and biblical studies in reference to interpretation of both the OT and NT and pseudepigraphal works. Explored are methodological issues, the use of anthropological concepts in biblical studies (identity; purity boundaries; virtuoso religion; spiritual experience; sacred space) and more ‘field orientated’ work of bible translators in different cultures.
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