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Books on: africa women religion

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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

...THE CHANGING STATUS OF WOMEN Across West Africa, women are struggling...undermining whatever status women held in precolonial societies...specific factor: the role religion, particularly Islam...the lives and status of women. We have found in this...
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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

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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

...spiritual power, this popular religion clearly spoke to the indignities...traditionally the preserve of women. It is largely due to womens...juogi cults that early Roho women had the courage to take up swords...teachings directed toward Roho women. The womens official transcript...
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African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography

Book by David Chidester, Chirevo Kwenda, Robert Petty, Judy Tobler, Darrel Wratten; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Blacks--South Africa--Religion--Bibliography, South Africa--Religion--Bibliography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...features. Chapter Ten, "Religion, magic and healing...traditional religion in South Africa. D74 Ngubane, Harriet...Impurity among the Zulu." Africa , vol. 46, no. 3...Zulu societies of South Africa, women are more often associated...
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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

...Archbishop, which carries much responsibility for religion and our country. I feel sure the Pope has...sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that place must -- at...
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Religion and Resistance Politics in South Africa

Book by Lyn S. Graybill; Praeger Publishers, 1995

Subjects:

Blacks--South Africa--Politics And Government, Nationalism--South Africa, Religion And Politics--South Africa, South Africa--Politics And Government--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...other side has a conscience. . . . But the rulers in South Africa have not had a conscience." 127 If there is any doubt that...132 Thus, while fighting against Bantu education, passes for women would come along, and while they are preoccupied with that...

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Journal Articles on: africa women religion

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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

...Colonial Religion in Bunyoro...region of East Africa during the...kubandwa offered women a refuge from...traditional religions hegemonic and...traditionnels de la religion, hegemonique...Great Lakes Africa: the relationship...Journal of Religion in Africa 32 (2...1966) Women in Toro, western...
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Freedom of or Freedom from Religion? an Overview of Issues Pertinent to the Constitutional Protection of Religious Rights and Freedom in "the New South Africa"

Journal article by Lourens Du Plessis; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2001, 2001

Subjects:

Church & state, Constitutional law, Court decisions, Freedom of religion, South Africa

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...number of Islamic women disadvantaged by...groups in South Africa must yet learn to...World Conference on Religion and Peace, representatives...free exercise of religion at the cost of broadly...of diversity of religions in South Africa. The constitutional...church (or organized religion) and state (or...
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Shembeism and the Rainbow Nation: Shembe Religion and Cultural Change in Durban, South Africa

Journal article by Dallas L. Browne; Ufahamu : Journal of the African Activist Association, Vol. 31, 2004

Subjects:

Cultural change, Durban South Africa, Modernization, Religion, Social life & customs, Values

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...length and breath of Africa honor and revere the...Zulus founded this religion and most of the African...such as hats, while women must cover their heads...downtown Durban, South Africa). Shembeites prohibit...for a married Shembe woman not to cover her head...Traditionally Zulu women wore hats into which...
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Teaching about Women and Islam in North Africa: Integrating Postcolonial Feminist Theory in the Classroom

Journal article by Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon; Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 44, 2011

Subjects:

Arabic language, Arabs, Contemporary problems, Geography, Islam, Motion picture directors & producers, Multiculturalism & pluralism, North Africa, Postcolonialism, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...respectability as a woman that she...class and not religion that defines...Muslim men and women drinking...of North Africa, use wine...secularism and religion in America...postcolonial North Africa is through...The Sura of Women in the Quran...man and woman inherit an...see that religion is not the...entered North Africa and the Middle...of Muslim women that corporate...helpless Afghan woman who was shot...
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The Emperor Is Still Naked: Why the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa Leaves Women Exposed to More Discrimination

Journal article by Kristin Davis; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 42, 2009

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Affirmative action--Laws, regulations and rules, Gender equality--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003, Sex discrimination against women--Laws, regulations and rules, United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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...language, or religion--remain unrealized...womens position in Africa to improve, change...is to benefit the women it seeks to protect...well-being of woman becomes an object...by Uganda, South Africa, and Zambia...on the Rights of Women in Africa: The SOAWR Campaign...

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Magazine Articles on: africa women religion

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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

Magazine article by Femi Biko; 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

...J. Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy, 53...pastoralists Fulani of West Africa to the "Niolites...Egyptian Old Kingdom religion, the cosmology of the...which time the true religion which existed already...between the "revealed" religions and their "pagan...who dost make men and women to be born again, the...
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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

...rights. In many areas, women could not own property...out that South African women were taxed more than men; and that a Black woman in need of an official...single professional women who got pregnant lost...is increasing in South Africa. According to Albertina...age, disability, religion, conscience, belief...
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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

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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

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...Relating to Human Rights, Women, Drugs, Homeless, Southern Africa. Action by the 54...relating to southern Africa, the Middle East and...and imprisonment of women and children was adopted...sanctions against South Africa was approved in a separate...
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Philanthropist Ted Turner Softens Stance on Religion to Help Raise $200 Million to Battle Malaria in Africa

Magazine article; Anglican Journal, Vol. 134, May 2008

Subjects:

Africa, Disease control, Entrepreneurs, Fund raising, Malaria, Turner, Ted (Robert Edward Turner III)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Turner Softens Stance on Religion to Help Raise $200...to Battle Malaria in Africa ECUMENICAL NEWS INTERNATIONAL...to fight malaria in Africa. Best known for creating...people, who are mostly women and children under the age of five in Africa.
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Gender and Drought Hazards in the Rangelands of the Great Horn of Africa

Magazine article by Margaret Mwangi; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2007

Subjects:

Children & youth, Community, Drought, Farming, Gender equity, Migration, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the Greater Horn of Africa and are the most injurious...living, especially women. The Context and...Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa Over the ages, humans...the Greater Horn of Africa are influenced solely by men. Since women are excluded from...

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Newspaper Articles on: africa women religion

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Moroccans Have Two Religions ...One Is Called Football; OUT OF AFRICA: SOUND FAMILIAR? THEY ARE A LITTLE COUNTRY WHO THINK THEY ARE ON THE VERGE OF GLORY IN THE WORLD CUP

Newspaper article by Bob Shields; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 22, 1998

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

Moroccans Have Two Religions ...One Is Called Football; OUT OF AFRICA: SOUND FAMILIAR? THEY ARE...among the people themselves. Women with their faces covered shop...have beaten the best sides in Africa to be ranked 11th in the world...
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WOMAN IS EXECUTED FOR BEING CHRISTIAN; Blood Stains: The Scene Where Gayle Williams Was Shot

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 20, 2008

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Christian-Muslim relations, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Execution (Punishment), Executions and executioners

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

WOMAN IS EXECUTED FOR BEING CHRISTIAN...Byline: KIRAN RANDHAWA A BRITISH woman aid worker was shot dead in...looked into the street he saw a woman lying on a footpath. Ms Williams has dual British and South Africa citizenship. Mr Lyth added...
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Why Africa Needs U2

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

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

...fatigue. He was drawn to Africa after Live Aid in 1985...are dying of Aids in Africa every day for no good...visiting the camps in Africa where Men, women, children, sometimes...the need to separate religion and politics from everything...
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African Sounds Herald a Busy March at the Sage; THE African Soul Rebels Tour Brings Top Artists from Mali, Benin and South Africa to the Sage Gateshead's Big Stage. DAVID WHETSTONE Reports

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 2, 2010

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

...Mali, Benin and South Africa to the Sage Gatesheads...uncompromising lyrics in praise of women have made her the funkiest...Makeba, the late "Mama Africa", who took her under...for the women of West Africa. It won praise, but...and sinister-sounding religion that grew up in Benin...
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Hillary's Image Rides High in Jaunt across North Africa

Newspaper article by Jennifer Harper; The Washington Times, March 29, 1999

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

...the past week in North Africa doing what she does...goodwill tour of North Africa, Mrs. Clinton has...by crowds of veiled women. She has spoken about...She began the North Africa trip with a bang, reaffirming...the misused name of religion." In Morocco, Mrs...celebration of their religions most holy event, Eid...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: africa women religion

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Islam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...religion there. In Africa, Islam is the principal religion in Egypt, Algeria...of Muslims from N Africa, Turkey, and Asia...those with revealed religions, including Jews...Islam. In Islam, religion and social membership...trans-Saharan Africa, stabilizing its...equally to men and women. The actual situation...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...their high Anglican preferences in religion; and their use of royal courts such...vote to agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until 1918.) In the...and Cyprus, fought frontier wars in Africa and Afghanistan, and became the largest...
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Uganda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the rest are nominated from women, the army, and other groups...of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEA), arrived...transferred to the British East Africa Protectorate (Kenya) for...divided the nation by tribe and religion. Opposition leaders, calling...
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Spain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Roman Catholicism was the official religion until 1978, but its role in Spanish...forced the Vandals to emigrate into Africa and established (419) their kingdom...members of the Cortes, gave married women the vote, made religious freedom...
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Baha'I

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...BAHAI baha e, hi , b , religion founded by Baha Ullah...Promised One of the earlier religion. The Bahai faith holds...in the unity of all religions, in universal education...equality of men and women. An international language...particularly in Africa. The center of the...which regards the religion as an Islamic heresy...

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