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Author: Donna Darkwolf Vos Publisher: Struik Publishers ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 262
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The author explains Pagan practice in the context of Southern Africa and the southern hemisphere. Topics include: definitions of Paganism and Wicca; the historical origins of Paganism; the link between Paganism and traditional African beliefs; and the opposition between Paganism and Satanism.
Author: Donna Darkwolf Vos Publisher: Struik Publishers ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
The author explains Pagan practice in the context of Southern Africa and the southern hemisphere. Topics include: definitions of Paganism and Wicca; the historical origins of Paganism; the link between Paganism and traditional African beliefs; and the opposition between Paganism and Satanism.
Author: Monique Maria Schmidt Publisher: ISBN: 9780962863233 Category : Benin Languages : en Pages : 0
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Descibes the harsh realities of teaching in West Africa, from a latrine overflowing with maggots, machete-wielding students, and extreme cultural differences. Shows how this young Peace Corps volunteer copes with the strangeness of daily life.
Author: Anthony Naidoo Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd ISBN: 9781919713977 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 484
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Book & CD. "Community Psychology" contains a rich diversity of insights and critical debates on the key theoretical, analytic, teaching, learning and action approaches in community psychology. The book offers an incisive examination of a range of contextual factors that influence the practice of community psychology in South Africa
Author: Darren Oldridge Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351345230 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 709
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The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination. The witch trials of the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have inspired a huge and expanding scholarly literature, as well as an outpouring of popular representations. This fully revised and enlarged third edition brings together many of the best and most important works in the field. It explores the origins of witchcraft prosecutions in learned and popular culture, fears of an imaginary witch cult, the role of religious division and ideas about the Devil, the gendering of suspects, the making of confessions and the decline of witch beliefs. An expanded final section explores the various "revivals" and images of witchcraft that continue to flourish in contemporary Western culture. Equipped with an extensive introduction that foregrounds significant debates and themes in the study of witchcraft, providing the extracts with a critical context, The Witchcraft Reader is essential reading for anyone with an interest in this fascinating subject.
Author: Chuka Onwumechili Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429639600 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 337
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This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world. Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international migration. In exploring the intranational, the book is written in two parts. The first is a general focus on the continent, and the second is an examination of country cases. The general focus of the book is on the nature of elite tier leagues, the relationship between politics and football, the media, youth academies, intranational migration and fans. Notably, chapters on topics such as intranational migration present groundbreaking scholarship in this area. Currently, football discourses on migration focus on international migration of footballers, yet the majority of migration in African football is intranational. Thus, by addressing the intranational, this book brings attention to an area that is underrepresented in the current academic discourse. The second part of the book, which focuses on country cases, covers Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The topics explored in those cases include religiosity, health, women’s football, media and management. The coverage of health-related issues is particularly important given that several books on African football rarely broach such a topic. With its unique approach to African football, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of sports history, African studies, politics in sports and African sports.
Author: Annika Björnsdotter Teppo Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000441687 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 169
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This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segregation sparked wide-reaching social change as social, cultural, spatial and racial boundaries were transgressed and transformed. This book investigates how Afrikaners have mediated the country’s shifting boundaries within the realm of religion. For instance, one in every three Afrikaners used these new freedoms to leave the traditional Dutch Reformed Church (NGK), often for an entirely new religious affiliation within the Pentecostal or Charismatic churches, or New Religious Movements such as Wiccan neopaganism. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Western Cape area, the book investigates what spiritual life after racial totalitarianism means for the members of the ethnic group that constructed and maintained that very totalitarianism. Ultimately, the book asks how these new Afrikaner religious practices contribute to social solidarity and integration in a persistently segregated society, and what they can tell us about racial relations in the country today. This book will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, social and cultural anthropology and African studies.
Author: MATEI RAUL-ALIN Publisher: MATEI RAUL-ALIN ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 43
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Synopsis: The narrative follows the journey of Maya, a young woman who receives a mysterious invitation to South Africa, a land her ancestors once called home. The invitation hints at an ancient secret and a hidden inheritance waiting to be claimed. Intrigued and seeking a connection to her roots, Maya embarks on a journey that will lead her to confront the mystical forces that shape the destiny of her family and the land itself.
Author: Philip Harrison Publisher: New Africa Books ISBN: 9780864865649 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 116
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Spiritual travel is an area of growth as more and more people seek refuge from the materialism and superficiality of life in the post-modern world. Spiritual travel includes pilgrimage to sacred sites, religious retreats, or simply visits to places associated with the great religions of the world.
Author: Zhange Ni Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813937698 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 318
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In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "pagan criticism," which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular. Focusing on two North American writers (the Jewish American Cynthia Ozick and the Canadian Margaret Atwood) and two East Asian writers (the Japanese Endō Shūsaku and the Chinese Gao Xingjian), Ni reads their fiction, drama, and prose to envision a "pagan (re)turn" in the study of world religion and world literature. In doing so, she highlights the historical complexities and contingencies in literary texts and challenges both Christian and secularist assumptions regarding aesthetics and hermeneutics. In assessing the collision of religion and literature, Ni argues that the clash has been not so much between monotheistic orthodoxies and the sanctification of literature as between the modern Western model of religion and the secular and its non-Western others. When East and West converge under the rubric of paganism, she argues, the study of religion and literature develops into that of world religion and world literature.
Author: Donna Darkwolf Vos
Author: Donna Darkwolf Vos
Author: Ruth Forman
Author: Monique Maria Schmidt
Author: Anthony Naidoo
Author: Darren Oldridge
Author: Chuka Onwumechili
Author: Annika Björnsdotter Teppo
Author: MATEI RAUL-ALIN
Author: Philip Harrison
Author: Zhange Ni