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Multiplying in the Spirit: African Initiated Churches in Zimbabwe
This volume was motivated by the realisation that AICs continue to be a significant player on Zimbabwe’s spiritual market. Members of predominantly Apostolic, but also Zionist, churches are highly visible in both rural and urban areas. Prophets from AICs are constantly in the news, alongside advertising their competence in urban areas. Thus it is high time to bring AICs being an important par…
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At the Crossroads: A Call to Christians to Act in Faith for an Alternative Zi…
Zimbabwe, a country that is made up of around 80% of Christians find itself as among the worst administered countries, among the most corrupt nations and overflowing with injustice. This paradox urges to question the role of Christianity in shaping the morality of the nation and in creating a just society for all its citizens. While acknowledging the major role played by politics and politician…
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- 9783863096120
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Aluta continua biblical hermeneutics for liberation: Interpreting biblical te…
This book was passed as a PhD thesis at Bayreuth University, Germany. The author challenges African Biblical scholars and Christian leaders to premise Biblical interpretation on the experiences of the often neglected underclasses. The author argues that from a comparative historical, cultural and material methodological point of view, the experiences of the Zimbabwean underclasses whose collect…
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- 9783863091675
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African Pentecostalism, the Bible, and Cultural Resilience: The Case of the Z…
The study investigates the resilience of Shona religion and culture among ZAOGA Pentecostal Christians. It endeavours to establish whether the Pentecostal Christians in Zimbabwe, through a case study of ZAOGA, have embraced aspects of Shona traditional religion and culture. Through an application of phenomenological-comparative approach as well as fieldwork, the study confirms continuity, chang…
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- 9783863097141
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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises
Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ri…
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- 9789517463669
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Mythic Discourses
Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations. The eighteen articles of Mythic Discourses address the many facets of myth in Uralic cultures, from t…
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- 9789522227638
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History and Literature New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band
This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each Essay constitutes a new and original reading of a text. The texts analyzed are drawn from a wide range of genres: talmudic legal texts, hasidic tales, folklore, as well as mo…
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The history of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods
This study analyzes the history of the festival of Sukkot during the second temple and rabbinic periods. While the Jerusalem temple stood, Sukkot was the preeminent festival and primary pilgrimage. The cult observed the festal week with sacrifices, processions, fertility rites and other temple rituals. The destruction of the second temple in 70 CE left rabbinic Judaism with the question of how …
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- 9781946527271
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A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture
This volume presents a translation and exegesis of Mishnah's Tractate Kilayim (Mixed Species) in an effort to discover the original meaning of the tractate. This volume aims to identify the sense which the formulators of the tractate's laws wished their rules to convey.
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- Brown University
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A History of the United Jewish Appeal 1939–1982
The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was the primary Jewish philanthropic umbrella organization until it was combined with another philanthropic organization in 1999. Using original archival research, this volume traces the history of the UJA from its origins to 1982.
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