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The Bible and violence in Africa : papers presented at the BiAS meeting 2014 in Windhoek (Namibia), with some additional contributions

Title
The Bible and violence in Africa : papers presented at the BiAS meeting 2014 in Windhoek (Namibia), with some additional contributions / Johannes Hunter & Joachin Kügler (eds.).
Publication
Bamberg : University of Bamberg Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors
  • Hunter, Jannie
  • Kügler, Joachim, 1958-
  • University of Namibia, host institution.
  • Universität Bamberg, organizer.
Description
328 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Bible in Africa studies = Études sur la Bible en Afrique = Bibel-in-Afrika-Studien ; volume 20
Uniform Title
Bible in Africa studies ; v. 20.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Conference held July 2014 at University of Namibia, Windhoek; part of a biannual conference series on Bible in Africa Studies, organized by University of Bamberg with other colleagues.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • In English with 1 contribution in French.
Contents
How to deal with violence in Biblical texts / Ottmar Fuchs -- The Bible and others: root of violence in Africa? / Jeremy Punt -- Rethinking the role of group thought in religious violence and extremism / Obert Bernard Mlambo & Clive Tendai Zimunya -- Compassion -- a uniting and binding ethos for pluralistic Africa / Theophilus Ugbedeojo Ejeh -- The historical Jesus and (non- )violence / Eben Scheffler -- Marginalisation and electoral violence / Solomon Olusola Ademiluka -- Rwanda, Auschwitz, Shechem -- locations of violence in Africa, Europe and in the Bible / Stephanie Feder -- The Bible and faith-based homophobia/homomisia in Africa / Joachim Kügler -- Precursor to restoration: Biblical violence in perspective / Canisius Mwandayi & Lucky Hwati -- Violence in Africa and violence in the atonement: possible solutions / Pieter Verster -- The applicability of Jesus' ethics as a panacea to the thorny issue of peace and reconciliation in Zimbabwe, 2008-2013 / Sheila Wimbai Chamburuka & Phillemon Munyaradzi Chamburuka -- Proverbs 31 woman: Pentecostalism and 'disempowering femininities' and 'oppressive masculinities' in Zimbabwe / Kudzai Biri -- The Pentecostal understanding of violence vs. peace in Zimbabwean society / Francis Machingura -- The Bible, violence, women, and African Initiated Churches in Zimbabwe / Elizabeth Vengeyi -- Zimbabweans and the prophetic frenzy / Molly Manyonganise -- "A voice is heard in Ramah!" (Jeremiah 31-15) / Nyasha Madzokere & Francis Machingura -- Christianisme et Islam au Cameroun / Jacques Fulbert Owono.
Call Number
ReCAP 21-4326
ISBN
  • 9783863093938
  • 3863093933
LCCN
2017376040
OCLC
957343077
Title
The Bible and violence in Africa : papers presented at the BiAS meeting 2014 in Windhoek (Namibia), with some additional contributions / Johannes Hunter & Joachin Kügler (eds.).
Publisher
Bamberg : University of Bamberg Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Bible in Africa studies = Études sur la Bible en Afrique = Bibel-in-Afrika-Studien ; volume 20
Bible in Africa studies ; v. 20.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
In English with 1 contribution in French.
Added Author
Hunter, Jannie, editor.
Kügler, Joachim, 1958- editor, contributor.
University of Namibia, host institution.
Universität Bamberg, organizer.
Research Call Number
ReCAP 21-4326
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