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Prayer Camps, Mental Health, and Human Rights Concerns in Ghana 加纳的祈祷营、心理健康和人权问题
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340207
F. Benyah
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引用次数: 1
African Traditional Religious Practices as Social Regulatory Mechanism 非洲传统宗教习俗作为社会调节机制
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340209
C. L. Nkama
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引用次数: 1
Exploring the Origins and Expansion of the Nyaminyami (Water Spirit) Belief Systems among the BaTonga People of Northwestern Zimbabwe 探索津巴布韦西北部巴通加人的Nyaminyami(水灵)信仰体系的起源和扩展
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340215
Joshua Matanzima
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引用次数: 1
Healing Borders and the Mapping of Referral Systems 治疗边界和转诊系统的映射
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340198
M. Michael
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引用次数: 0
Attitude and Perception of Ghanaians toward the Church 加纳人对教会的态度和看法
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-bja10046
Joseph Bawa, Anthony Ayim, Bossman Bastimi
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引用次数: 3
The Road to an Agreement on Missions 通往特派团协议之路
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340200
Hugo Gonçalves Dores
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引用次数: 0
Objects of Catholic Conversion in Colonial Buganda: A Study of the Miraculous Medal 布干达殖民地天主教皈依的对象:神奇奖章的研究
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340197
Alison Bennett
{"title":"Objects of Catholic Conversion in Colonial Buganda: A Study of the Miraculous Medal","authors":"Alison Bennett","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340197","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Adorned with an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and other Christian emblems and text, the miraculous medal has been an important object of Catholic intercessory prayer since the mid-nineteenth century. The religious and social history of the medal in Europe is relatively well known. However, few scholars have connected the medal’s emergence with the spread of the European mission in the wake of nineteenth-century colonial expansion. This article uses the medal to shed new light on the material, corporeal, and gendered aspects of the Catholic Christianization of present-day Buganda, where it fulfilled a variety of functions for missionaries and Baganda alike. For missionaries it served as a key item for proselytizing and propaganda. For some Baganda, meanwhile, it played pivotal roles in a newly emerging form of local religious identity politics. Object analysis of an extant version from Buganda also reveals the medal’s material diversity and offers important insight into local agency in the reception and reshaping of Catholic objects. Thus when viewed in non-European contexts, miraculous medals were far more dynamic and multifaceted than has previously been understood.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42627038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Grassroots Perceptions of Islamic Extremism and Muslim-Christian Relations in Mali 马里基层对伊斯兰极端主义的认识与穆斯林与基督教关系
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340203
L. Lado, Boris Olivier Glode
{"title":"Grassroots Perceptions of Islamic Extremism and Muslim-Christian Relations in Mali","authors":"L. Lado, Boris Olivier Glode","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340203","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Recent studies of Christian-Muslim encounters in West Africa underlines their complexity and warn against reducing them to either peaceful coexistence or conflict. Yet the question whether the recent resurgence of religious extremism the Sahel is recasting interfaith relations in the region requires scholarly attention. This paper investigates the perceptions of religious extremism in Mali from a Christian-Muslim perspective. The paper is based on a qualitative study carried out in Bamako in 2016 among Christians and Muslims. These perceptions mirror the ways in which Christians and Muslims represent and misrepresent each other in the context of the threat of the “islamist take over”. I argue that the resurgence of religious extremism has not significantly impacted Christians-Muslims relations in Mali for three main reasons. The first is that religious extremism is largely perceived as imported from outside; second, targets and victims of Jihadist attacks in Mali have been both Christians and Sufi Muslims. Thirdly the management of religious differences is subordinated to broader social processes of conviviality.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45663393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
‘Let No Black Cat Cross Our Path’: An Introduction to Ga Rituals of Affliction “不让黑猫穿过我们的道路”：Ga痛苦仪式简介
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340205
Gyau Kumi Adu
{"title":"‘Let No Black Cat Cross Our Path’: An Introduction to Ga Rituals of Affliction","authors":"Gyau Kumi Adu","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340205","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Although much has been said about Ga rituals by earlier scholars such as Ammah, Kilson, and Field, no direct and comprehensive literature exists that deals specifically with Ga rituals of affliction. Rituals of affliction are measures by which cultures attempt to deal with the problem of ‘affliction’. All cultures have a different way in which affliction is explained and dealt with. This article explores Ga rituals of affliction based on an analysis of one text line in Ga libation prayers, ‘Let no black cat cross our path’ (alͻnte diŋ ko akafo wͻteŋ).","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41427435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
From Religion to Spirituality: Lessons for Values Education 从宗教到灵性:价值观教育的课程
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340201
L. Maharajh
{"title":"From Religion to Spirituality: Lessons for Values Education","authors":"L. Maharajh","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340201","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper discusses the concepts of religion and spirituality in the context of a study on the perceptions and possibilities of the Bhagavad Gita for values education in Durban, South Africa. The ideas are explained through a model of spirituality that has been adopted from the 3H (head, heart, hands) and BMSEST (body, mind, spirit, environment, social, transcendent) models of spirituality in multicultural whole-person medicine (Anandarajah 2008). I argue for a broad and open understanding of spirituality, which I feel has the potential to extend the youth beyond religion. However, I also maintain that young people are easily influenced by material surroundings and are seen as a ‘generation of suspects’ (Giroux 2006, 149). The model that I present indicates that religious scriptures (in the case of this paper, the Bhagavad Gita) have a perennially valid set of values, which has the potential to contribute to a programme of values education among the youth. However, the youth are not abstracting and extracting these values. For the youth these values remain elusive and even ethereal.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":"44 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41294180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
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