Download or read book Maasai Life and Christian Practice written by Fred Foy Strang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing photographic record of traditional Maasai life and Christian influence in the 20th century, including a unique record of Maasai hand counting signs. Original black and white photographs with accompanying descriptions offer a glimpse into both traditional Maasai culture and indigenous Christian expression. Included text gives a brief, but accurate description of traditional and changing Maasai life and Christian practice. This book also includes a fascinating photographic record of Maasai numeric hand signals along with the proper manner in which to execute each signal. A portion of all sales revenue goes to assist Maasai people. The author, Dr. Fred Foy Strang, has lived and worked with Maasai people for over two decades.
Download or read book Maasai Life and Christian Worship and Practice at the End of the 20th Century written by Fred Foy Strang and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Church of Women written by Dorothy L. Hodgson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, why have so many more women converted to Christianity than men? What explains the appeal of Christianity to women? What does religious conversion mean for the negotiation of gender and ethnic identity? What role does religious conversion play as a tool for empowering women? In The Church of Women, Dorothy L. Hodgson looks at how gender has shaped the encounter between missionary priests and Maasai men and women in Tanzania. Building on her extensive experience with Maasai and the Spiritan missionaries, Hodgson explores how gendered change among Maasai has shaped women's notions of religious faith, religious practice, and spiritual power. Hodgson explores the appeal of Catholicism among women in East Africa, the enmeshing of Catholic practice with Maasai spirituality, and the meaning of conversion to new Christians. This rich, engaging, and original book challenges notions about religious encounter and the role of ethnic identity, female authority, and power among Maasai.
Download or read book A Maasai Encounter with the Bible written by Zephania Shila Nkesela and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of how Maasai informants read some selected Old Testament texts that are thought to have an appeal to people with semi/nomadic ways of life.
Download or read book A Maasai Encounter with the Bible written by Zephania Shila Nkesela and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The research presented in this book is a critical analysis of how Maasai informants read some selected Old Testament texts that are thought to have an appeal to people with semi/nomadic ways of life. The Maasai is a Nilotic ethnic group of semi/nomadic pastoralists living in the northern Tanzania, and southern Kenya, East Africa. The book focuses on the parallels between the Maasai and biblical concepts of nomadic lifestyle. On the one hand, the semi/nomadic heritage of the Maasai faces severe cultural and political difficulties when encountering East African modern ways of life. On the other, the ancient Israel actually experienced the opposite, seeing a strengthening of semi/nomadic ways of life. Therefore, the book demonstrates the potentials of the supposed parallels between the two by allowing the experiences of the ancient Israel to contribute to strengthen the semi/nomadic ways of life, a key aspect of traditional Maasai values into the contemporary East African context"--
Download or read book Doing Theology with the Maasai written by Doug Priest and published by William Carey Library Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wandering Shepherds and the Good Shepherd written by Leonard A. Mtaita and published by Erlanger Verlag Fur Mission Und Okumene. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cosmic Christ written by Godwin Lekundayo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reception of Christ as Savior has been poor among the Maasai people, especially in Tanzania. Missiological approaches have not proved practical. That is why the book's author proposes an Appropriational Model as an effective method for conducting mission among the Maasai. Christianity has to reach Maasai where they are, in their culture and environment.
Download or read book A History of Christian Conversion written by David W. Kling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.
Download or read book The Church of Women written by Dorothy Louise Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using her extensive experience with both the Maasai people and Spiritan missionaries, Dorothy Hodgson presents a gendered consideration of cultural change and the religious encounter among the Maasai.
Download or read book A Study of the Religious Beliefs and Practices of the Maasai Tribe and the Implications on the Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania written by J. Stanley Benson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity Rediscovered written by Vincent J. Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resistant Peoples written by Valeer Neckebrouck and published by Gregorian & Biblical Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya and Tanzania are two countries where Christianity has been in general well received. Within the context of general benevolence toward the new religion, the Christian missions nevertheless have not been able to take foothold among the different sections of Maasai people who live there. In the course of the past two years, it has become more apparent that the Maasai are no longer as capable in the past of keeping themselves from the pressure exercised by the States of which they have become a part. They are resigning themselves to the process of change. A growing openness toward Christianity figures as one of the indicators of this new development. But the question remains why they have waited so long to embark on the path of change. The discovery of elements which have determined the behaviour of the Maasai may help to answer to this question. Valeer Neckerbrouck, born in 1936, Koerbeek-Dijle (Belgium), is a priest of the archdiocese of Malines-Brussels. He is doctor in theology and doctor in anthropology. After having worked as a Fidei Donum priest in Rwanda and Zaire, he spent five years as an anthropologist among the agricultural Kikuyu and the pastoral Maasai of Kenya. He also did anthropological field-work in Ethiopia, Peru and Honduras, and made extensive study tours to several other African and Latin American countries. Since 1982 he combines these activities in the field of teaching, first at the Faculty of Theology of Tilburg, later at the Faculty of Theology and at the Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Catholic University of Louvain.
Download or read book In and Out of the Maasai Steppe written by Joy Stephens and published by Best Red. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In and out of the Maasai Steppe powerfully evokes the beauty of the arid landscape of the Maasai Steppe of Tanzania and takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of the Maasai women. It explores their current plights - threatened by climate change - in the light of colonial history, in particular the interface between the Maasai and colonials, post-independence history of land seizures, as well as the divide between old and new ways of life. This is also a story of empowerment - it documents the struggles of a group of women who developed a new livelihood income in the face of current difficulties through their traditional beadwork. The women also share their stories - how it feels to share a husband with many co-wives, their beliefs, social hierarchy and social changes. This beautifully written book provides a fresh and captivating perspective on the context and culture of the Maasai Book jacket.
Download or read book Gender Justice and the Problem of Culture written by Dorothy L. Hodgson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the relationships between law, custom, gender, marriage and justice among northern Tanzania’s Maasai communities. When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania—from customary law to human rights—as specific forms of justice that often reflect elite ideas about gender, culture, and social change. Drawing on evidence from Maasai communities, she explores how the legacies of colonial law-making continue to influence contemporary efforts to create laws, codify marriage, criminalize FGM, and contest land grabs by state officials. Despite the easy dismissal by elites of the priorities and perspectives of grassroots women, she shows how Maasai women have always had powerful ways to confront and challenge injustice, express their priorities, and reveal the limits of rights-based legal ideals. “This is a book that only Dorothy Hodgson could have written, with her decades of work in Tanzania, vast networks in Maasailand, and deep ethnographic knowledge, combined with her deftness in working through more theoretical work on gender and human rights. Closely argued, conceptually sharp, and engagingly written.” —Brett Shadle, author of Girl Cases: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970 “Dorothy Hodgson asks a number of important and clearly articulated questions, and provides thoughtful answers to them using a hybrid of historical and anthropological methodologies that combine in-depth case studies with more empirically-informed macro-level reflection. A concise and useful resource in the undergraduate as well as the graduate classroom.” —Priya Lal, author of African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World “Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture makes a significant contribution to the study of law in East Africa and elsewhere among colonized peoples, and it should be required reading not only for academics interested in such matters but for activists and policymakers.” —American Anthropologist “Hodgson’s book is both rich in detail and broad in its implications for understanding struggles for justice for marginalised groups. It deserves the attention of students and scholars of African studies, anthropology, history, political science and women’s and gender studies.” —Journal of Modern African Studies
Download or read book Among the Maasai written by Juliet Cutler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, Juliet Cutler leaves the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa. Captivated by the stories of young Maasai women determined to get an education in the midst of a culture caught between the past and the future, she seeks to empower and support her students as they struggle to define their own fates. Cutler soon learns that behind their shy smiles and timid facades, her Maasai students are much stronger than they appear. For them, adolescence requires navigating a risky world of forced marriages, rape, and genital cutting, all in the midst of a culture grappling with globalization. In the face of these challenges, these young women believe education offers hope, and so, against all odds, they set off alone―traveling hundreds of miles and even forsaking their families―simply to go to school. Twenty years of involvement with this school and its students reveal to Cutler the important impacts of education across time, as well as the challenges inherent in tackling issues of human rights and extreme poverty across vastly different cultures. Working alongside local educators, Cutler emerges transformed by the community she finds in Tanzania and by witnessing the life-changing impact of education on her students. Proceeds from the sale of this book support education for at-risk Maasai girls.
Download or read book The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior written by Tepilit Ole Saitoti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's traditional childhood, adolescence, and coming into manhood in Maasailand and of his education in Europe and America.
