African women legends and the spirituality of resistance
"This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories. It considers the intersection of gender and spirituality in subverting patriarchy, colonialism, anthropocentricism, ca...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
Routledge
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Woman
/ Religion
/ Feminism
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Philosophy, African History B Feminist Theology (Africa) B Philosophy, Africa History B RELIGION / Generals B Women and religion (Africa) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781032587271 |
| Summary: | "This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories. It considers the intersection of gender and spirituality in subverting patriarchy, colonialism, anthropocentricism, capitalism as well elevating African women to the social space of speaking as empowered subjects with public influence. The chapters examine historical, cultural, and religious African women legends who became champions of liberation and their approach to social justice. The authors suggest that the stories of resistance featured hold great potential for building justice-loving Earth Communities. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, gender studies, Indigenous studies, African studies, African-Indigenous Knowledges and postcolonial studies"-- Biographical notes: Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017). She is a biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Dube is also Professor Extraordinaire in UNISA, Centre for Gender Studies. Telesia K. Musili is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is a national coordinator of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is Dean of the School of Theology at Perez University, Ghana. She is Vice-President of the Missiological Society of Ghana based at Trinity Theological Seminary and Head Pastor of Revival Temple, Perez Chapel International La. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Resource (xx, 252 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 1003460976 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781003460978 |