Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
African Languages and Societies Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Religion (219)
- Missions and World Christianity (217)
- Christian Denominations and Sects (215)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (6)
- Christianity (5)
-
- Anthropology (4)
- Social and Cultural Anthropology (4)
- Sociology (4)
- African Studies (3)
- International and Area Studies (3)
- Sociology of Religion (3)
- Community Health and Preventive Medicine (2)
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (2)
- Place and Environment (2)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (2)
- Public Health (2)
- African American Studies (1)
- African History (1)
- American Politics (1)
- Art and Design (1)
- Biblical Studies (1)
- Civic and Community Engagement (1)
- Comparative Psychology (1)
- Cultural History (1)
- Environmental Policy (1)
- Environmental Studies (1)
- Ethics in Religion (1)
- Institution
- Publication Year
Articles 1 - 30 of 220
Full-Text Articles in African Languages and Societies
Restoring Eden: The Role Of Christianity On Environmental Conservation: A Case Of Karatu District, Arusha, Tanzania, Taylor Allen
Restoring Eden: The Role Of Christianity On Environmental Conservation: A Case Of Karatu District, Arusha, Tanzania, Taylor Allen
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
In order for environmental conservation to be effective it must have a method of translating to people’s everyday values. Developing countries which include mostly bio-diversity hotspot areas are important to maintain sustainable development. Due to most of these countries following an organized religion, predominantly Christian, an alternative method of conservation may be successful to motivate citizens to participate in efforts. In order for this to be successful, members of the congregation must agree that there is a religious obligation to care for the environment. For Christianity this obligation is discussed by the creation story in the bible. This paper will …
The Mountain Stands: An Autoethnographic Inquiry Into Zulu Christians' Approaches To Spiritual Health, Makayla Lagerman
The Mountain Stands: An Autoethnographic Inquiry Into Zulu Christians' Approaches To Spiritual Health, Makayla Lagerman
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Spiritual health is a vital component of individual wellness that can be described in many ways; most commonly, it is thought of as the connectivity of the inner spirit to others, the world, transcendental beings, and more. From personal experience, I know that the state of my spiritual wellbeing can greatly impact my physical and mental health. For this reason, actively considered how to think about spiritual health for one of the first times in my life.
This project sought to explore Zulu Christians’ approaches to spiritual health in concurrence with my own. This was done by interviewing one Swazi …
Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion And The Global Health Campaign For Medical Male Circumcision In Swaziland, Casey Golomski, Sonene Nyawo
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 …
Wearing Memories: Clothing And The Global Lives Of Mourning In Swaziland, Casey Golomski
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 …
Generational Inversions: 'Working' For Social Reproduction Amid Hiv In Swaziland, Casey Golomski
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 …
Interview With Carol Thompson, Marcia Monaco
Interview With Carol Thompson, Marcia Monaco
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 91 minutes
Oral history interview of Carol Thompson by Marcia Monaco
In this interview, Carol Thompson recalls her involvement and work in the anti-apartheid movement. She explains that her awareness of the anti-Apartheid movement began while at Northern Illinois University, but she first became involved after she moved to Chicago, when she met South African author, Donald Woods, which led to her involvement in the Dennis Brutus’ defense committee. She recalls that she initially worked with Clergy and Laity Concerned and later, alongside Prexy Nesbitt, became a founding member of CIDSA, which was committed to passing legislation in Chicago …
Good Words - May 2007, Vol. 9, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - August 2006, Vol. 8, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - May 2006, Vol. 8, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - August 2005, Vol. 7, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - May 2005, Vol. 7, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 2004, Vol. 6, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - August 2004, Vol. 6, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - May 2003, Vol. 5, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 2002, Vol. 4, No. 3, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - August 2002, Vol. 4, No.2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - May 2002, Vol. 4, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 2001, Vol. 3, No. 8, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words - December 2001, Vol. 3, No. 8, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words / Amazwi Amahle
No abstract provided.
Good Words - July 2001, Vol. 3, No. 7, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 2002, Vol. 3, No. 6, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - August 2000, Vol. 3, No. 5, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words - August 2000, Vol. 3, No. 5, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words / Amazwi Amahle
No abstract provided.
Good Words - May 2000, Vol. 3, No. 4, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 1999, Vol. 3, No. 3, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words - December 1999, Vol. 3, No. 3, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words / Amazwi Amahle
No abstract provided.
Good Words - August 1999, Vol. 3, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words - August 1999, Vol. 3, No. 2, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
Good Words / Amazwi Amahle
No abstract provided.
Good Words - April 1999, Vol. 3, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 1998, Vol. 3, No. 1, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 1997, Vol. 2, No. 11, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - September 1997, Vol. 2, No. 10, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - April 1997, Vol. 2, No. 9, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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
Good Words - December 1996, Vol. 2, No. 9, Brethren In Christ Church In Africa
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