Research Catalog

Title

Mother earth, mother Africa & African indigenous religions / editors, Nobuntu Penxa Matholeni, Georgina Kwanima Boateng, Molly Manyonganise.

Publication

• [Devonvallei, Stellenbosch] : African Sun Media, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Matholeni, Nobuntu Penxa
• Boateng, Georgina Kwanima
• Manyonganise, Molly

Description

xviii, 179 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Africans embrace all of life, the humanity of each person, the world, and the creation of God. Consequently, African indigenous education reflects the completeness of life itself. The various chapters in this volume recount religious events and experiences from individual perspectives as they are unfolding on the continent. The different voices show how modernity, colonisation, urbanisation, Christianity, and technology have sidelined beliefs and practices of African traditional religions (ATRs) to the detriment of the environment. This volume brings together voices from leading proponents of ATRs and African religious heritage to help us appreciate how values are richly entrenched in African religious life. It demonstrates the detailed richness of ATRs and culture and showcases how far the academic study of ATRs in Africa has come, and calls for a concerted effort through partnership between various actors to ensure environmental sustainability."--

Subject

• Indigenous peoples > Africa > Religion
• Ethnoecology > Africa
• Women and the environment > Africa
• Religion
• Africa > Religion
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Mercy Amba Oduyoye -- Introduction / Nobuntu Penxa Metholeni, Georgina Kwanima Boateng -- Kwantonjane : the indigenous rites of passage amongst amaXhosa in relation to prejudiced spaces / Nobuntu Penxa Matholeni -- Bembu rituals and the environment : experiences of the wives of Bashi Cingo in the sweetheart of Nimbi church / Bridget N. Masaiti Mukuka -- Liberating earth and women in postcolonial worship spaces in Ghana / Georgina Kwanima Boateng -- The Role of rainmakers in awakening environmental consciousness : a postcolonial ecocritical analysis / Kenosi Molato -- The sedated sacred : a socioreligious analysis of Zimbabwe's land reform programme and environmental degradation / Molly Manyonganise, Godfrey Museka -- Rethinking environmental sustainability through the Ndau notion of communal existence / Macloud Sipeyiye -- The Impact of urbanisation on burial rituals in Southern Africa / Abednico Phili -- The beliefs and religious practices and the environment amongst the kalanga in north-east Botswana / Fidelis Nkomazana -- African imagination of technology and environmental stability : examples of Kikuyu and Luhya communities in Kenya / Doreen Karimi Nyaga -- The role of religion in sustainable development : theological reflections on sustainable development goals and mother earth / Mwawi Nyirenda Chilongozi.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-9582

ISBN

• 9781928480723
• 1928480721

OCLC

1304835936

Title

Mother earth, mother Africa & African indigenous religions / editors, Nobuntu Penxa Matholeni, Georgina Kwanima Boateng, Molly Manyonganise.

Publisher

[Devonvallei, Stellenbosch] : African Sun Media, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Matholeni, Nobuntu Penxa, editor.

Boateng, Georgina Kwanima, editor.

Manyonganise, Molly, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-9582