Author: Albert SchweitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gabon
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
Author: Albert SchweitzerPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest is an autobiography by Albert Schweitzer. It focuses on his later years, where he left his position as university professor, in order to go as a medical doctor to French Equatorial Africa.
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
Author: Albert SchweitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gabon
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Poonam BalaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527511898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This volume examines the various modalities of imperial engagements with the colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa. Articulated through race, gender and medicine, these modalities also became colonial sites of desire addressing colonial anxieties ensuing from concerted engagements. Focussing on colonial India, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, this volume brings together essays from eminent scholars to examine the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding their role in the dominant discourses of the empire. Given its transnational perspective in addressing colonial India and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book will appeal to historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, and to scholars and students in colonial studies, cultural studies, history of medicine and world history.
The Crozer Quarterly
Author: Crozer Quarterly
Author: Edward B. PollardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Includes section "book reviews".
The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Chinese Medical Journal
Author: Bridging the Gap, Breaching Barriers
Author: Mary Carol CloutierPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153269749X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
From its very beginning, in June 1842, the Protestant Mission in Gabon included men and women of African descent—African Americans, Americo-Liberians, and West Africans—all teachers and advanced students from the Cape Palmas (Liberia) Mission, who transferred with the mission to its new location on the Gaboon estuary. All came voluntarily and wholeheartedly. They served as teachers, evangelists, preachers, and printers, building the early foundation of Christianity in Gabon. Many eventually returned to their homelands, but others stayed for the duration of their lives, assimilating into the local community. This book celebrates the contribution of persons of African descent who served with the mission from 1834 until 1891, a time of complex and controversial race relations in America, which seeped into mission relations overseas. Private missionary correspondence and journals reveal the interrelationships, roles, and contributions of these individuals, and also the underlying perceptions of nationality, race, and gender. One must grieve the injustices evident in the stories, yet marvel at the giftedness, faith, determination and commitment of those who served, often with no official recognition. I introduce you to Mr. B. V. R. James, Lavinia Sneed, Charity Sneed Menkel, Mary Harding, and others—may their stories inspire you!
Co-creation
Author: Vladimir MegrePublisher: Ringing Cedars Press LLC
ISBN: 9780980181234
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Over 10 million copies sold in 20 languages
African Biblical Studies
Author: Andrew M. MbuviPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567707741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Andrew M. Mbuvi makes the case for African biblical studies as a vibrant and important emerging distinct discipline, while also using its postcolonial optic to critique biblical studies for its continued underlying racially and imperialistically motivated tendencies. Mbuvi argues that the emergence of biblical studies as a discipline in the West coincides with, and benefits from, the establishment of the colonial project that included African colonization. At the heart of the colonial project was the Bible, not only as ferried by missionaries, who often espoused racialized views, to convert “heathens in the distant lands,” but as the text used in the racialized justification of the colonial violence. Interpretive approaches established within these racist and colonialist matrices continue to dominate the discipline, perpetuating racialized interpretive methodology and frameworks. On these grounds, Mbuvi makes the case that the continued marginalization of non-western approaches is a reflection of the continuing colonialist structure and presuppositions in the discipline of biblical studies. African Biblical Studies not only exposes and critiques these persistent oppressive and subjugating tendencies but showcases how African postcolonial methodologies and studies, that prioritize readings from the perspective of the marginalized and oppressed, offer an alternative framework for the discipline. These readings, while destabilizing and undermining the predominantly white Euro-American approaches and their ingrained prejudices, and problematizing the biblical text itself, posit the need for biblical interpretation that is anti-colonial and anti-racist.