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How Abanyole African Widows Understand Christ : Explaining Redemption Through the Propagation of Lineage
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ISBN: 0773445803 9780773445802 9780773425750 0773425756 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Christianity has become a major influence on African life. This book studies the way that sixteen African widows cope with grief by turning to Christology. Their daily lives are documented and show that they survive through their faith in Jesus. Most of them pray almost everyday, and their relationship with God reflects the different ways that each of them experiences grief. Several of the widows lacked genuine and binding companionship because people consider them burdens. So they stay away from public spaces and feel lonely, which could be the reason why they compensate by creating a relatio

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Jesus Christ -- Person and offices. --- Nyore (Kenyan people) -- Social life and customs. --- Widows -- Religious life -- Kenya -- Vihiga District. --- Widows --- Nyore (Kenyan people) --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Abanyole (Kenyan people) --- Banyole (Kenyan people) --- Banyore (Kenyan people) --- Lunyole (Kenyan people) --- Lunyore (Kenyan people) --- Nyole (Kenyan people) --- Nyoole (Kenyan people) --- Nyuli (Kenyan people) --- Olunyole (Kenyan people) --- Olunyore (Kenyan people) --- Ethnology --- Luyia (African people) --- Marital status --- Women --- Religious life --- Social life and customs --- Jesus Christ --- Person and offices. --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- ‏عيسىٰ‏


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The Bible and sociological contours : some African perspectives. Festschrift for professor Halvor Moxnes
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ISBN: 9781433132902 9781433137006 9781433137013 9781453917688 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York Peter Lang

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This book, which is a collection of various essays on Africa and the Bible, is a must-read for scholars and students who are interested in exploring the intersection between the Bible and public spaces exposing the liberating and oppressing strands of the Bible. Given the enchanted African worldview, which includes belief in miracles, divine healing and prosperity, the Bible is the go-to-authority of many religious activities. Though at home, the Bible's role and function needs closer assessment. The critical question tackled in this volume is: how can Africa read the Bible from its various contexts to recover its usefulness on issues of gender, patriarchy and political and economic liberation? Yet equally, how do we guard against oppressive discourses that find support from the Bible such as polygamy, viewing women as unequal to men and growing economic disparities? In addition, throughout history, Africans are made to be comfortable with theologies that further distance them away from economic and political processes, such as the belief in an angry God who punishes and demands utter obedience—theologies which have sustained particular asymmetric socio-economic and political structures across the continent. This book is important because it traces the sociological contours in the Bible in relation to Africa, sensitizing us to the liberating strands and, at the same time, making us aware of the pathos associated with the literary reading of the Bible.

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