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Women within Religions (Hardcover)
Loreen Maseno, Elia Shabani Mligo; Foreword by Esther Mombo
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Doing Effective Fieldwork (Hardcover)
Elia Shabani Mligo; Preface by Loreen Iminza Maseno; Foreword by Zorodzai Dube
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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.
About the Contributor(s): Elia Shabani Mligo (PhD, University of
Oslo, Norway) is an employee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Tanzania--Southern Diocese. He currently teaches Theology and
Research at Amani University Project in Njombe, which operates
under the University of Iringa in Tanzania. Mligo has published
several books and articles including Jesus and the Stigmatized
(Pickwick Publication, 2011), Writing Academic Papers (Resource
Publication, 2012), and Doing Effective Fieldwork (Resource
Publication, 2013)
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