Download or read book L effervescence religieuse en Afrique written by SERAPHIN Gilles, DROZ Yvan, MAUPEU Hervé, MEDARD Jean-françois, DE ROSNY Eric and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Douala ou à Nairobi, au Cameroun ou au Kenya, les différents mouvements composant le christianisme (protestantisme, catholicisme, nouveaux mouvements religieux..)sont en ébullition. A l'aide d'études minutieuses (contexte politique et social, nature et forme des mouvements étudiés), les cinq auteurs de cet ouvrage dessinent un panorama diversifié de l'expression religieuse chrétienne sur ces divers sites. Ces recherches comparatives de terrain offrent ainsi un tableau complexe et vivant qui permet de comprendre les origines et la nature de l'effervescence religieuse chrétienne africaine actuelle.
Download or read book L effervescence religieuse en Afrique written by Seraphin Gilles and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Douala ou à Nairobi, au Cameroun ou au Kenya, les différents mouvements composant le christianisme (protestantisme, catholicisme, nouveaux mouvements religieux...) sont en ébullition. A l'aide d'études minutieuses (contexte politique et social, nature et forme des mouvements étudiés), les cinq auteurs de cet ouvrage dessinent un panorama diversifié de l'expression religieuse chrétienne sur ces divers sites. Yvan Droz, ethnologue, étudie les conditions d'apparition puis d'expansion des mouvements pentecôtistes et millénaristes à Nairobi ; Hervé Maupeu, politologue, analyse les rapports entre l'Église catholique et la démocratisation kenyane depuis 1992 ; Éric de Rosny, anthropologue, passe en revue l'implantation des mouvements pentecôtistes, millénaristes et philosophiques à Douala ; Jean-François Médard, politologue, se consacre à une étude historique et politique du processus d'implantation des mouvements protestants dans le Cameroun sous mandat puis indépendant ; Gilles Séraphin, sociologue, synthétise l'ensemble de ces recherches en déterminant les divergences et les convergences entre Douala et Nairobi dans l'expression religieuse chrétienne. Ces recherches comparatives de terrain offrent ainsi un tableau complexe et vivant qui permet de comprendre les origines et la nature de l'effervescence religieuse chrétienne africaine actuelle.
Download or read book L effervescence religieuse en Afrique crise ou vitalit de la foi written by Jules Muanda Kienga and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On observe en Afrique un engouement pour une religiosité caractérisée par la quête de la prospérité, de la guérison, du succès et du miraculeux qui a imprégné en grande partie l'imaginaire collectif africain. Elle est devenue un mode de croire et de penser, d'agir et de réagir d'une bonne partie de la population africaine. Cet ouvrage voudrait scruter, assainir et réorienter la religiosité africaine afin qu'elle ne soit pas source d'aliénation mais un aiguillon du progrès des peuples d'Afrique.
Download or read book L effervescence Religieuse en Afrique Crise Ou Vitalite de la Foi written by Muanda Kienga Jules Muanda Kienga and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La notion de religion populaire appliqu e au catholicisme en Afrique written by Léon Sabuni Kitutu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’essor remarquable dans le champ religieux contemporain de toutes sortes de formes de « religiosités populaires » au sein ou en marge des institutions religieuses établies peut apparaître comme un paradoxe en ce début de troisième millénaire. Ainsi, s’agissant du christianisme, il est établi que tout au long de son histoire la question des croyances et pratiques religieuses dites populaires a souvent été perçue comme relevant du domaine des survivances du paganisme que l’Eglise se devait de combattre. Sur le terrain du catholicisme en Afrique, la question des « religiosités populaires » est également d’actualité et ce, dans le contexte d’une effervescence religieuse généralisée qui, tout en se nourrissant des ressources qu’offre la tradition chrétienne, puise également dans le vivier de la religion et de la culture traditionnelles. Ce phénomène se présente comme une nouvelle manière de pratiquer la religion et de vivre la foi chrétienne qui interpelle la science théologique et la responsabilité pastorale de l’Eglise. Par son caractère exponentiel et sa forte dimension anthropologique et théologique, la problématique des « religiosités populaires » devient une donne socio-religieuse incontournable qui ne saurait laisser indifférent quiconque s’intéresse au présent et à l’avenir de la jeune et dynamique chrétienté africaine.
Download or read book Butinage written by Yonatan N. Gez and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed by the authors metaphorically to refer to the "to-ing and fro-ing" of believers between religious institutions. Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as existing at the meeting points of religious-institutional rules and narratives, social norms, and individual agency and practice. Drawing on anglophone, francophone, and lusophone academic traditions, Butinage is dedicated to a dialogue between ethnographic findings and theoretical ideas, and explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity.
Download or read book African Human Rights Yearbook Volume 4 2020 written by and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three institutions making up the African regional human rights system, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, decided to jointly publish the African Human Rights Yearbook, to spearhead studies on the promotion and protection of human rights, and to provide a forum for constructive engagement about the African human rights system with academics and other human rights commentators on the continent. Volume 4 of the Yearbook, published in 2020, contains 24 contributions by scholars from Africa and beyond. Les trois institutions qui composent le système régional africain des droits de l’homme, la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples, la Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples et le Comité africain d’experts sur les droits et le bien-être de l’enfant ont décidé de publier conjointement l’Annuaire africain des droits de l’homme pour encourager les études sur la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme et offrir un forum d’interaction constructive sur le système avec les universitaires et observateurs du continent. Le Volume 4 de l’Annuaire, publié en 2020, contient 24 contributions de chercheurs du continent et d’ailleurs.
Download or read book Traditional Churches Born Again Christianity and Pentecostalism written by Yonatan N. Gez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kenya's vibrant urban religious landscape, where Pentecostal and traditional churches of various orientations live side by side, religious identity tends to overflow a single institutional affiliation. While Kenya’s Christianity may offer modes of coping with the fragilities of urban life, it is subject to repeated crises and schisms, often fueled by rumors and accusations of hypocrisy. In order to understand the unfolding of Kenyans’ dynamic religious identities, and inspired by the omnipresent distinction between ‘religious membership’ and ‘church visits,’ Yonatan N. Gez considers the complementary relations between a center of religious affiliation and expansion towards secondary practices. Building on this basic distinction, the book develops a theoretical innovation in the form of the ‘religious repertoire’ model, which maps individuals’ religious identities in terms of three intertwined degrees of practice.
Download or read book Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa written by Abdoulaye Sounaye and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines religiosity on university campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on both individuals and organized groups, the contributions open a window onto how religion becomes a factor, affects social interactions, is experienced and mobilized by various actors. It brings together case studies from various disciplinary backgrounds (anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, literature) and theoretical orientations to illustrate the significance of religiosity in recent developments on university campuses. It pays a particular attention to religion-informed activism and contributes a fresh analysis of processes that are shaping both the experience of being student and the university campus as a moral space. Last but not least, it sheds light onto the ways in which the campus becomes a site of a reformulation of both religiosity and sociality.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.
Download or read book Contemporary African Cultural Productions written by V.Y. Mudimbe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over Africa, an explosion in cultural productions of various genres is in evidence. Whether in relation to music, song and dance, drama, poetry, film, documentaries, photography, cartoons, fine arts, novels and short stories, essays, and (auto)biography; the continent is experiencing a robust outpouring of creative power that is as remarkable for its originality as its all-round diversity. Beginning from the late 1970s and early 1980s, the African continent has experienced the longest and deepest economic crises than at any other time since the period after the Second World War. Interestingly however, while practically every indicator of economic development was declining in nominal and/ or real terms for most aspects of the continent, cultural productions were on the increase. Out of adversity, the creative genius of the African produced cultural forms that at once spoke to crises and sought to transcend them. The current climate of cultural pluralism that has been produced in no small part by globalization has not been accompanied by an adequate pluralism of ideas on what culture is, and/or should be; nor informed by an equal claim to the production of the cultural packaged or not. Globalization has seen to movement and mixture, contact and linkage, interaction and exchange where cultural flows of capital, people, commodities, images and ideologies have meant that the globe has become a space, with new asymmetries, for an increasing intertwinement of the lives of people and, consequently, of a greater blurring of normative definitions as well as a place for re-definition, imagined and real. As this book Contemporary African Cultural Productions has done, researching into African culture and cultural productions that derive from it allows us, among other things, to enquire into definitions, explore historical dimensions, and interrogate the political dimensions to presentation and representation. The book therefore offers us an intervention that goes beyond the normative literary and cultural studies main foci of race, difference and identity; notions which, while important in themselves might, without the necessary historicizing and interrogating, result in a discourse that rather re-inscribes the very patterns that necessitate writing against. This book is an invaluable compendium to scholars, researchers, teachers, students and others who specialize on different aspects of African culture and cultural productions, as well as cultural centers and general readers.
Download or read book Neoliberal Bandwagonism Civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon written by Piet Konings and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While neoliberals typically view civil society organizations as vital channels for the implementation of economic and political reforms, they are also inclined to blame the politics of belonging for the poor record of these reforms. Piet Konings rejects such notions and argues that the relationship between civil society and the politics of belonging is more complex in Africa than Western donors and scholars are inclined to admit. He argues that ethno-regional associations and movements are more significant constituents of civil society in Africa than the conventional organizations that are often uncritically imposed or endorsed. He shows how the politics of belonging, so pervasive in Cameroon, and indeed much of Africa, during the current neoliberal economic and political reforms, has tended to penetrate the entire range of associational life, and he calls for a critical re-appraisal of prevalent notions and assumptions about civil society in the interest of African reality.
Download or read book Journal for the Study of Religion written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on African Witchcraft written by Mariano Pavanello and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopian and Eritrean Pentecostalism and the Habesha church in Rome -- Breaking with the past, healing history -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 "I went out into the street ... and now I am fighting for my life.": Street children, witchcraft accusations, and the collapse of the household in Bangui (Central African Republic) -- A history of oppression and dispossession -- The streets of Bangui -- Witchcraft violence:Children, adults and religious leaders in the streets of Bangui -- Etiological crisis and the collapse of the household -- Conclusion: The dialectic of enclosure and freedom -- References -- 8 Fields of experience: In between healing and harming. On conversation between Dogon healers and sorcerers -- Healing powers, sacrifice and sorcery on the Dogon plateau -- Archives of disorder, secret and rebellion -- To accuse, to heal, to envision -- Epistemological debris and 'hierarchies of credibility'. Conclusions -- References -- Index
Download or read book Post Colonial Cameroon written by Joseph Takougang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by a diverse group of Cameroonian scholars, both at home and in the diaspora, presents multidisciplinary insights on some of the critical issues including political, economic, and sociocultural developments in post-colonial Cameroon.
Download or read book The General Elections in Kenya 2007 written by Jerome Lafargue and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2007 general elections in Kenya led to major unrest. The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the events that set the country on fire for several weeks. The situation has largely stabilised since April 2008, when the articles collected in this book were first individually published. Some political information has been updated post April 2008. The coalition government took shape with Mwai Kibaki remaining President while Raila Odinga became the Prime Minister. The country however remains in suspense, as do the donors who had made it possible for Kenya to restore a semblance of peace. But to what point will they be interested in investing in the country and to protect their place in it? The collection comprises a translation of a special issue of Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est, n?37, the journal of the Institut Fran?ais de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA) and a collection of articles from Politique Africaine, n?109. On site researchers - Bernard Calas, Anne Cussac, Dominique Connan, Musambayi Katumanga, J?r?me Lafargue, and Patrick Mutahi; fieldwork carried out between December 2007 and February 2008 by Florence Brisset-Foucault, Ronan Porhel, Brice Rambaud; and in-depth country knowledge by Claire M?dard and Herv? Maupeu, combined to produce a mass of data within a short time. Whilst the tone of the book is not highly optimistic, the thrust is not intended to dampen the unanimous sense of hope in the country that the political and social situation will once more be more than just tolerable.
