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Books on: africa women religions

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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

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

...Sharon. 1975- 1976. "Women and the Labor Force...Movements in Colonial East Africa: Aspects of Early African...Communities in East Africa: Anglicans and Africans...Bantu Prophets in South Africa . London: Oxford University...Rosette ed. , The New Religions of Africa , 87-97...On Mircea Eliade," Religion 19:129-136. Were...
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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 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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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

...social organization, all religions have an interest in...person dies. 22 In East Africa, Christians and Muslims...Christians in East Africa have fought to establish...relationship of one man and one woman united until death doth...Christian societies in East Africa. In Uganda, for example...improve the status of women and block legal loopholes...

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Journal Articles on: africa women religions

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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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Unescorted in Africa: Victorian Women Ethnographers Toiling in the Fields of Sensational Science

Journal article by Julie English Early; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 18, 1995

Subjects:

Africa, Ethnology, Explorers, History, Kingsley, Mary, Sheldon, May French, Travel, Women

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Life in West Africa. The British Empire...The Story of West Africa, The Story of the Empire...Travels in West Africa, Congo Francais, Corsico...Eliza Lynn. "The Wild Women as Social Insurgents...Interpretations of Primitive Religions." Edinburgh Review...
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Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence against Women in the Context of Globalization

Journal article by Sally Engle Merry; Law & Society Review, Vol. 35, 2001

Subjects:

Globalization, Human rights, Religion, Violence, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...makes no reference to religion. The Early Years of...placing formerly battered women in leadership positions...she was the only white woman on the staff, and that many women of color always worked...approaches to violence against women based on rights, religion, and community start...

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Magazine Articles on: africa women religions

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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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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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Is It Time to Give Religions a Public Voice?

Magazine article by Gregory Baum; Inroads, 2001

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Africa, Asia, Canada, Comparative analysis, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Politics, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...public debate. Since all religions are heirs of a patriarchal culture, women are troubled by the idea that the religions will influence public policy...movement that has made the religions uncomfortable. They are willing...slowly Fear of the impact of religion on public policy is also an...
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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, History, Entire Library

Religion by the Sword: In the Century Following the Death of Muhammad, the Religion of Islam Formed the Basis for the Rapid Conquest...Muhammad, not on the spiritual elements of the new religion of Islam, but on the sword. And that conquest...

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Newspaper Articles on: africa women religions

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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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Christians, Muslims Almost Equal in Numbers in Africa; Proximity a Flash Point for Conflict

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), April 16, 2010

Subjects:

Christians--Religious aspects, Christians--Statistics, Muslims--Religious aspects, Muslims--Statistics

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

...the two largest religions in the world. According to the World Religion Database, 48 percent...in Sub-Saharan Africa, animist religions made up the bulk...not individual women - should decide...Islamic centers in Africa. Examples include...one or the other religion, chances are...
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On Safari to Africa, India with the Over-50 Crowd

Newspaper article by Maryan Pelland; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 14, 2004

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

...who kept at me to come to Africa. Africa!" she recalls. Linklater and her mother - women who never camped, who...traveling - were going to East Africa, Linklater said. "I...constitution and their religions prohibit wasting animals...
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One Life Is All You Need; More Than Half of People in Britain Now Profess to Have No Religion. Could Humanism Be Ready to Fill the Gap? KAREN WILSON Gets the Views of North East Humanists during Humanist and Humanitarian Week

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 22, 2011

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

...support groups in East Africa that fight for the land rights of women. It is something Alistair...people turning away from religion - the 2009 British Social...riled about the power religion still carries in our...from within, not from religion," she says. "You...children learn about other religions but they also need to...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: africa women religions

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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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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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Gay-Rights Movement

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...nations permit openly homosexual men and women to serve in their armed forces. Beginning...amendments restricting marriage to a man and a woman and in some cases also banning same...same-sex marriages. Meanwhile, some religions and churches have been struggling with...Canada; many European nations; South Africa, New Zealand, Ecuador, and Uruguay...

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