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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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- 306.6 KUG a
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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Western North Carolina Since the Civil War
No region has undergone more dramatic changes in the last century than Western North Carolina. Published in 1973, Western North Carolina Since the Civil War takes a look at mountain people in Western North Carolina and their uniquely structured economic, political, social, and cultural systems. The Van Noppens specifically explore different qualities of the mountain people such as their institu…
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- 9781469638331
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- 306.4 NOP w
The Many Faces of Appalachia
This volume of the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1985 at Unicoi State Park in Helen, Georgia, offers a look at diversity and Appalachian identity.
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- 9781469636863
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The Impact of Institutions in Appalachia
This volume of the Proceedings of the 8th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1986 in Berea, Kentucky, offers a sampling of papers presented at the conference. Paper topics include religion; government and technology; capitalism and coal; regional photographers; sports and play in Southern Appalachia; education; cultural and diversity issues; and history and politics.
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The Future of Appalachia
Though titled the Proceedings of the 1st Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, this volume contains the speeches and papers of the Southern Appalachian Regional Conference held May 13-16, 1974 at the Center for Continuing Education at Appalachian State University. Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr. of North Carolina; John B. Howard, American Petroleum Institute; and Cratis Williams, Acting Vice…
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- 9781469636764
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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, Ideology, Methodology
Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world’s largest folklore collections. This study draws on the extensive government files on the Commission in the National Archives of Ireland and on a wide variety of other primary and secondary sources, in order to recount and ass…
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- 9789517469470
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- 909.82 BRI i
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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Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in The Life Narrative of a Female…
In this study, I examine the life narrative of a female factory labourer, Elsa Koskinen (née Kiikkala, born in 1927). I analyze her account of her experiences related to work, class and gender because I seek to gain a better understanding of how changes in these aspects of life influenced the ways in which she saw her own worth at the time of the interviews and how she constructed her subjecti…
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- 9789522226099
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Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing : Human Ecology in the A…
Dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with mounting threats to both biological diversity of life on earth and cultural diversity of human communities. The peoples of the Circumpolar Arctic are at the forefront of these challenges and lead the way in seeking meaningful responses. In Biocultural Diversity and Ind…
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- 978-1-55238-566-1
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- Northern lights series, 1701-0004 ; 12
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