africa women religion - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

Book by Lucy Creevey, Barbara Callaway; Lynne Rienner, 1994

Subjects:

Islam--Social Aspects--Africa, West, Muslim Women--Nigeria, Muslim Women--Senegal, Women--Africa, West--Social Conditions, Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc. (Islamic Law)--Africa, West

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...OF ISLAM WOMEN, RELIGION, AND POLITICS IN WEST AFRICA BARBARA...heritage of Islam : women, religion, and politics in West Africa / Barbara...lives of West African women. In any country, religion provides a value...
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Women, Religion, and Social Change

Book by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Ellison Banks Findly; State University of New York Press, 1985

Subjects:

Social History, Women And Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...intensive social change or breakdown; students of religion know that such co-existence of a variety of models...churches, and examples of the new, post-missionary African independent churches. Women have been prominent in many of these institutions...
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Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya

Book by Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton; Oxford University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Christian Sects--Kenya--Nyanza--Case Studies, Independent Churches--Kenya--Nyanza Province--Case Studies, Luo (African People)--Religion, Musanda Holy Ghost Church Of East Africa, Nyanza Province (Kenya)--Church History, Ruwe Holy Ghost Church Of East Africa, Women In Christianity--Kenya--Nyanza Province--Case Studies

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This is the first extensive study of the African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, in Western Kenya. Hoehler-Fatton uses extensive oral histories and life narratives to provide a counterweight to existing historical literature, and also brings to the fore the role of women in the evolution and expansion of the Church.
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Women in the World of Africa

Book by Joan Esherick; Mason Crest, 2005

Subjects:

Women--Africa--Juvenile Literature

...Trails 55 FIVE Religion and Women in Africa 63 SIX Remarkable...the rise). Many African women, in fact, find religion to be the one place...su- perstition, religion in African is real to the women who practice it. Sometimes...
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Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence

Book by Holger Bernt Hansen, Michael Twaddle; James Currey, 1995

Subjects:

Africa, Eastern--Politics And Government--1960-, Christianity--Africa, Eastern--20th Century, Islam--Africa, Eastern--20th Century, Religion And Politics--Africa, Eastern, Religion And State--Africa, Eastern

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of change in religion and politics...to stress that African religious movements...only men and women fought as Holy...Fundamentalism in Africa: religion and politics...historical study of African religion London, 1972...

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"Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca Down": Enslaved Women, Religion, and Social Power in the Antebellum South

Journal article by Brenda E. Stevenson; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 90, 2005

Subjects:

African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...antebellum slave women clearly enjoyed...with other African Americans...importance of religion in their...generations. African women and men could...ideal that religion was a central...Leadership: Black Women and Organized Religion," SAGE (Fall...Patterns of African-American...
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The Cwezi-Kubandwa Debate: Gender, Hegemony and Pre-Colonial Religion in Bunyoro, Western Uganda

Journal article by Shane Doyle; Africa, Vol. 77, 2007

Subjects:

Cults--Influence, East Africa--History, Exploitation--Case studies, Religion--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the role of women within Cwezi-kubandwa...indigenous religion in Great Lakes Africa has often...Bay (eds), Women in Africa: studies in...1981) Religion and Resistance...Journal of Religion in Africa 32 (2): 136-66...M. (1966) Women in Toro, western...
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"Woman, Why Are You weeping?"(Looking Ahead to the WCC's Eighth Assembly: African Perspectives.)

Journal article by Nyambura Njoroge; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 49, 1997

Subjects:

Africa--Religion, Feminist theology--Africa, Women and religion--Africa

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Easter message which Mary announced. The other garden is African religion and culture, where we are searching for life-enhancing...which will strengthen and sustain a healthy community of women and men, a community of faith. We are aware that the...
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Women and Religious Change in Israel: Rebellion or Revolution

Journal article by Susan Sered; Sociology of Religion, Vol. 58, 1997

Subjects:

Religion And Sociology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...The heritage of Islam: Women, religion, and politics in West Africa . Boulder, CO: Lynne...of conflict control in African micropolitics. In Political...leadership role: Catholic women pastors". Sociology of Religion 54 : 31-42. Wegner...
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Does Religion Matter in Contraceptive Use Among Ghanaian Women?

Journal article by Isaac Addai; Review of Religious Research, Vol. 40, 1999

Subjects:

Religion, Religion And Sociology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...use of modern contraceptive methods among Traditional women may be shaped by members perception of the side effects...contraception on reproductive capabilities. Also, traditional African religion tends to identify large family size with virtue. This...

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The Women of South Africa

Magazine article by Lynn Norment; Ebony, Vol. 49, August 1994

Subjects:

Women's rights--South Africa, Women--South Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture or language...during his campaign, even appealed to South African men to take up more responsibility in...machines so the laundry could be done by both women and men. But women are still cautious...
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African Foundations of World Religions: "It Is to Inner Africa We Must Look in Order to Understand That Which Became Majestic in [Ancient] Egypt" -- Gerald Massey. Welcome to Part 2 of Our Series on Religion

Magazine article by Femi Biko; New African, May 2001

Subjects:

Africa--Religious aspects, Ancient civilization--Religious aspects, Civilization, Ancient--Religious aspects, Egypt--History, Egyptian history, Religion--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Great Lakes region. The African faiths consider God both...Egyptian Old Kingdom religion, the cosmology of the...who dost make men and women to be born again, the...religious traditions and religion in the post-Akhenaton...fundamental difference between African and Western religious...
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Economic and Social Council Considers Issues Relating to Human Rights, Women, Drugs, Homeless, Southern Africa

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 23, August 1986

Subjects:

Civil rights--International aspects, Drug abuse--Prevention, Homelessness--Prevention, International organization--Social policy, Southern Africa--Social aspects, United Nations. Economic and Social Council--Social policy, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...southern Africa, and for assistance to women in national liberation movements in the...present explosive situation in southern Africa, the body decided to pay particular attention...Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, by a vote of 30 to 3 (Byelorussian...
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Why Do Churches Attract Women and Estrange Many Men of Faith

Magazine article by Frederica Mathewes-Green; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, June 21, 1999

Subjects:

Church attendance--Demographic aspects, Men--Religion, Women--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...It is not Christianity that in parts of Africa promotes clitoridectomy as a means to...is not Christianity that inflicts upon women, as in Iran and Afghanistan, hysterical...accurate to say men arent as interested in religion, since they participate strongly in Islam...
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Religion by the Sword: In the Century Following the Death of Muhammad, the Religion of Islam Formed the Basis for the Rapid Conquest of the Christian Lands of Europe, North Africa, and the near East

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 23, September 3, 2007

Subjects:

Franks--Evaluation, French history, to 987, Islam and politics, Islam--Evaluation, Islam--France, Islam--Saudi Arabia, Muhammad--Evaluation, Prophets--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...through the Middle East and North Africa and into Spain. It was an empire...spiritual elements of the new religion of Islam, but on the sword...Sword of the Prophet, "The women were subsequently raped; Muhammad...moved through the rest of North Africa and finally into Spain where...

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Why Africa Needs U2

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from many places, certainly visiting the camps in Africa where Men, women, children, sometimes they would leave their dead...political band. We never saw the need to separate religion and politics from everything we write and care about...
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Meet the Muslim Madonna; Souad Massi Is Happy to Be World Music's Sexiest and Most Outspoken Star - Just Don't Ask Her to Speak for Her Religion

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Speak for Her Religion. Byline...East and North Africa category) in...for Muslim women," she says...regard Muslim women as subservient...about their religion?" She shrugs...Though the North African country is...forbidden Muslim women to wear headscarves...that I am an African," she says...
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Immigration Changes Face of U.S. Religion

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, April 14, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Swami Vivekananda, a celebrity at the 1893 Parliament of World Religions in Chicago. Since then, Americans founded Vendanta Societies...turbans, Muslims may be the most visible immigrant faith. Muslim women wear head scarves and the faithful gather for traditional group...
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Muslim Africa, American Worship

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 30, 2005

Subjects:

Muslims

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat...westerners, especially women, hardly dare tread...author stumbles is on religion. Even though Muslims...Islamic empire in west Africa, which embraces 10...and often death for women caught in adultery...assumption that the religion has the right to...
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The Magic of Mali; from Sacred Crocodiles to Goat's Head Soup, Wild Dogon Country Is Emerging on the Tourist Map of West Africa. Backpacker JOANNE LANE Takes to the Dusty Roads to Discover Mali Magic

Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), June 18, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Is Emerging on the Tourist Map of West Africa. Backpacker JOANNE LANE Takes to the Dusty...are bleating goats, laughing children, women with babies tied to their backs, and others...but most still follow their traditional religion. A small minority are Christian. But long...

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Baha'I

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...believe in the unity of all religions, in universal education...the equality of men and women. An international language...cent., particularly in Africa. The center of the faith...republic, which regards the religion as an Islamic heresy...P. Smith, The Bahai Religion (1988...
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Islam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...expanding the realm of Islam to trans-Saharan Africa, stabilizing its commercial and cultural...essential to the firm establishment of a world religion. There are disagreements in the hadith...and obligations apply equally to men and women. The actual situation of women is more...
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Uganda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...divided the nation by tribe and religion. Opposition leaders, calling...internationally, including by the African Unions fledgling Pan-African parliament. The campaign was...Gukiina, Uganda: A Case Study in African Political Development (1972...
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Spain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...government and chief of state, provided for direct election of about one quarter of the members of the Cortes, gave married women the vote, made religious freedom a legal right, and ended Falange control of labor unions. The forming of new political parties...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...able-bodied young men and many young women. The creation of a great number...neutral nations of Asia and Africa, partly because of the U.S...Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States (2001...Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003); S...

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