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Religion and Coronavirus Response in Kano State, Nigeria 尼日利亚卡诺州的宗教与冠状病毒应对措施
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340304
M. Okorie
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Combating COVID-19 and ‘Possessing the Nations’: Insights from Ghana’s Megachurches 打击 COVID-19 和 "占有国家"：加纳大型教会的启示
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340298
Allison Norton, Felicity Apaah
{"title":"Combating COVID-19 and ‘Possessing the Nations’: Insights from Ghana’s Megachurches","authors":"Allison Norton, Felicity Apaah","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340298","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article employs social listening techniques to capture the themes and public response to popular coronavirus-related social media posts made by leaders via their public Facebook pages at two of Ghana’s largest and fastest-growing churches: The Church of Pentecost (CoP) and the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">UD-OLGC</span>). We examine how religious leaders employed social media in response to the pandemic, and how these religious groups reinforced their relevance and reinvented themselves in the face of <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">COVID</span>-19. Additionally, we explore the major beliefs, perceptions, and values that the church’s social media users portrayed in response to the church’s pandemic postings, using social listening techniques and sentiment analysis. These results show how, while adapting to the realities demanded by the pandemic, the social media presence of two of Ghana’s largest churches served as a site for the contestation and negotiation of the religious authority of the leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187968","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}
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‘Something Like a Nuclear Weapon’: African Charismatic Prophetic Revelations and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic 类似核武器的东西"：非洲灵恩派先知对 Covid-19 大流行病的启示和回应
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340299
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
{"title":"‘Something Like a Nuclear Weapon’: African Charismatic Prophetic Revelations and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340299","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the role of mega size African Pentecostal/charismatic prophets and charismatic figures in the public response to Covid-19. There were responses to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019, and in Africa, a lot of these were religious. This article examines the intersection between religion and the Covid-19 pandemic, in the context contemporary African charismatic-prophetism. The data is sought mainly from oral and media sources of the various charismatic figures at the center of the discussion. The same religious interpretations that inform the understanding of events in society and human life in Africa were extended to the interpretation, diagnosis, and response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The charismatic power and influence of Pentecostal/charismatic church leaders, such as Emmanuel Makandiwa of Zimbabwe, was evident through the public role that the prophets played as these churches articulated their responses to the pandemic as a public health issue with spiritual implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141188043","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}
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Religion, Science, and Pentecostalism: RCCG and the COVID-19 Pandemic 宗教、科学与五旬节派：RCCG 与 COVID-19 流行病
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340297
Dodeye Williams, Abimbola Adelakun, Nike Ogunnowo
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Teaching and Preaching 教学与传道
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340301
Temesgen T. Beyan
{"title":"Teaching and Preaching","authors":"Temesgen T. Beyan","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340301","url":null,"abstract":"During European colonial times in Africa and elsewhere, missionary education was an integral part of the colonial instruments for political domination, economic exploitation, and cultural assimilation. This paper aims to investigate the process of making colonial subjects through missionary education that was mainly provided by Catholic and Evangelical mission schools during the Italian colonial period in Eritrea. The paper argues that the Catholic and Evangelical mission schools distinctively worked to achieve their separate objectives that can be explained as employment versus salvation, teaching versus preaching, flag versus Bible, and hands versus soul, respectively. While the Catholic mission school focused on training the hand in order to supply labour, the Evangelical mission school stressed harvesting the soul to cultivate a docile labour force. Despite their differences, the works of the Catholic and Evangelical mission schools placed much emphasis on and exerted much effort to producing a class of colonial subjects that could serve as brokers of power.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141153207","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}
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Religion, Morality, and Democracy in Ghana 加纳的宗教、道德和民主
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340300
Jeffrey Haynes
{"title":"Religion, Morality, and Democracy in Ghana","authors":"Jeffrey Haynes","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340300","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Many Ghanaians express concern about what they regard as a serious decline in morality and integrity, at both elite and popular levels. The decline is believed to fuel corruption, undermine national development, and diminish faith in democracy as the best available system of government. The paper argues that a close relationship between Ghana’s largest church, the Church of Pentecost (CoP), and the country’s two main political parties, the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress, threatens Ghana’s secular constitution and the country’s three decades of democracy in two ways. First, the CoP wants undemocratically to impose a framework to control Ghanaians’ moral behaviour according to the church’s values and beliefs. Second, the CoP’s influence on Ghana’s two main political parties seeks to prioritise power and control over all Ghanaians regardless of their religious affiliation and of the country’s commitment to democratic norms and institutions.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140990843","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}
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Religious Reformation and Ethical Transformation in the Hatata of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat Zera Yaeqob 和 Welda Heywat 的《哈塔》中的宗教改革和伦理变革
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340302
Fasil Merawi
{"title":"Religious Reformation and Ethical Transformation in the Hatata of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat","authors":"Fasil Merawi","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340302","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <em>Hatatas</em> of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat are seen as the precursors of a written Ethiopian philosophy. Commentators on these texts such as Claude Sumner and Teodros Kiros argue that, one is able to locate the Cartesian mode of subjectivity in the Hatatas. Against this, this paper argues that the form of subjectivity found in the Hatatas of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat is not fully demythologized and dwells in the background of religious authority, and therefore should not be identified with the Cartesian conception of the human subject. Alternatively, I argue that the goal of the Hatatas is attaining religious reformation. The form of subjectivity found in the Hatatas is founded on communal life and religious experience. The paper concludes that the Hatatas of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat should be read as a call for religious renewal and ethical transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140888435","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}
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The Arabic-Afrikaans Writing Tradition 1815–1915, written by Davids, AchmatThe Arabic-Afrikaans Writing Tradition 1815–1915, edited by Hein Willemse and Suleman E. Dangor 1815-1915 年阿拉伯语-南非荷兰语书写传统》，戴维德、阿奇马特撰写《1815-1915 年阿拉伯语-南非荷兰语书写传统》，海因-威廉斯和苏莱曼-丹戈编辑
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340295
Dianna Bell
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Sacredness and Religious Fanaticism 神圣与宗教狂热
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340294
A. Fahm, Aisha U. Muhammad
{"title":"Sacredness and Religious Fanaticism","authors":"A. Fahm, Aisha U. Muhammad","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340294","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The authors examine how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus portrays the conflicts between Igbo indigenous culture, Roman Catholic missionary culture, and inculturated Catholicism, and how these conflicts lead to religious fanaticism. This article focuses on the characters’ interactions with their respective cultures and religions, and juxtaposes the extreme devotion of Eugene Achike’s abusive Catholicism with the flexible understanding of the oneness of God in Papa Nnukwu’s traditional religious practices. The authors underscore the value of cultural diversity and the importance of tolerance and understanding while cautioning against the dangers of strict adherence to religious dogma.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140229223","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}
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Interreligious Interaction in the Ilorin Metropolis 伊洛林大都市的宗教间互动
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340293
L. Akande, Olatunde Oyewole Ogunbiyi, A. Fahm
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