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African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities, And Impact, David K. Penno Jul 2018

African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities, And Impact, David K. Penno

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

"African Christian Leadership is a well-organized, well-written report on some very significant research about leaders and the practice of leadership in the African church. The methodology allowed the researcher to hear from a broad spectrum of African Christians. One criticism of the study could be that a sample of church leaders and members in majority Muslim countries of North Africa were not included in the study, but this might be understandable due to the already vast scope of the project. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in leadership in the Christian context, and especially as practiced …

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Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion And The Global Health Campaign For Medical Male Circumcision In Swaziland, Casey Golomski, Sonene Nyawo Jan 2017

Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion And The Global Health Campaign For Medical Male Circumcision In Swaziland, Casey Golomski, Sonene Nyawo

Anthropology

Swaziland faces one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world and is a site for the current global health campaign in sub-Saharan Africa to medically circumcise the majority of the male population. Given that Swaziland is also majority Christian, how does the most popular religion influence acceptance, rejection or understandings of medical male circumcision? This article considers interpretive differences by Christians across the Kingdom’s three ecumenical organisations, showing how a diverse group people singly glossed as ‘Christian’ in most public health acceptability studies critically rejected the procedure in unity, but not uniformly. Participants saw medical male circumcision’s promotion and …

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Wearing Memories: Clothing And The Global Lives Of Mourning In Swaziland, Casey Golomski Sep 2015

Wearing Memories: Clothing And The Global Lives Of Mourning In Swaziland, Casey Golomski

Anthropology

This article situates a cultural phenomenon of women’s memory work through clothing in Swaziland. It explores clothing as both action and object of everyday, personalized practice that constitutes psychosocial well-being and material proximities between the living and the dead, namely, in how clothing of the deceased is privately possessed and ritually manipulated by the bereaved. While human and spiritual self-other relations are produced through clothing and its material efficacy, current global ideologies of immaterial mortuary ritual associated with Pentecostalism have emerged as contraries to this local, intersubjective grief work. This article describes how such contrarian ideologies paper over existing global …

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Generational Inversions: 'Working' For Social Reproduction Amid Hiv In Swaziland, Casey Golomski Dec 2014

Generational Inversions: 'Working' For Social Reproduction Amid Hiv In Swaziland, Casey Golomski

Anthropology

How do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and dependency that produce mutuality rather than conflict across age groups? Expanding from studies of HIV/AIDS and religion in Africa, this article pushes for an analytic engagement with ritual as a space and mode of action to both situate local concerns about and practices for restoring dynamics of social reproduction. It describes how the enduring HIV/AIDS epidemic in Swaziland contoured age patterns of mortality where …

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Good Words - May 2007, Vol. 9, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa May 2007

Good Words - May 2007, Vol. 9, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Busani Nkomo, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - August 2006, Vol. 8, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Aug 2006

Good Words - August 2006, Vol. 8, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Busani Nkomo, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - May 2006, Vol. 8, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa May 2006

Good Words - May 2006, Vol. 8, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Busani Nkomo, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - August 2005, Vol. 7, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Aug 2005

Good Words - August 2005, Vol. 7, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Busani Nkomo, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - May 2005, Vol. 7, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa May 2005

Good Words - May 2005, Vol. 7, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Busani Nkomo, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 2004, Vol. 6, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 2004

Good Words - December 2004, Vol. 6, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Busani Nkomo, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - August 2004, Vol. 6, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Aug 2004

Good Words - August 2004, Vol. 6, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Busani Nkomo, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - May 2003, Vol. 5, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa May 2003

Good Words - May 2003, Vol. 5, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Adam Ncube, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 2002, Vol. 4, No. 3, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 2002

Good Words - December 2002, Vol. 4, No. 3, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Adam Ncube, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - August 2002, Vol. 4, No.2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Aug 2002

Good Words - August 2002, Vol. 4, No.2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Adam Ncube, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - May 2002, Vol. 4, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa May 2002

Good Words - May 2002, Vol. 4, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Adam Ncube, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 2001, Vol. 3, No. 8, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 2001

Good Words - December 2001, Vol. 3, No. 8, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - July 2001, Vol. 3, No. 7, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Jul 2001

Good Words - July 2001, Vol. 3, No. 7, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Sinda Ngulube, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 2002, Vol. 3, No. 6, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 2000

Good Words - December 2002, Vol. 3, No. 6, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Adam Ncube, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - August 2000, Vol. 3, No. 5, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Aug 2000

Good Words - August 2000, Vol. 3, No. 5, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - May 2000, Vol. 3, No. 4, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa May 2000

Good Words - May 2000, Vol. 3, No. 4, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 1999, Vol. 3, No. 3, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 1999

Good Words - December 1999, Vol. 3, No. 3, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - August 1999, Vol. 3, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Aug 1999

Good Words - August 1999, Vol. 3, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - April 1999, Vol. 3, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Apr 1999

Good Words - April 1999, Vol. 3, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 1998, Vol. 3, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 1998

Good Words - December 1998, Vol. 3, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 1997, Vol. 2, No. 11, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 1997

Good Words - December 1997, Vol. 2, No. 11, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - September 1997, Vol. 2, No. 10, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Sep 1997

Good Words - September 1997, Vol. 2, No. 10, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - April 1997, Vol. 2, No. 9, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Apr 1997

Good Words - April 1997, Vol. 2, No. 9, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 1996, Vol. 2, No. 9, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 1996

Good Words - December 1996, Vol. 2, No. 9, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - July 1996, Vol. 2, No. 8, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Jul 1996

Good Words - July 1996, Vol. 2, No. 8, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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Good Words - December 1995, Vol 2., Brethren In Christ Church In Africa Dec 1995

Good Words - December 1995, Vol 2., Brethren In Christ Church In Africa

Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

Nellie Mlotshwa, editor of Good Words / Amazwi Amahle

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