Search for dissertations about: "African Traditional Religion"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words African Traditional Religion.

  2. 1. Sidama and Ethiopian : The emergence of the Mekane Yesus Church in Sidama

    Author : Arne Tolo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Ethiopia; Sidama; Amhara; culture; religion; colonialism; modernisation; missionary movement; evangelical movement; revival; persecution; church growth; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; missionsvetenskap; missionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The present work belongs to local African church history and international mission history.The author shows why and how the Sidama people in south Ethiopia became part of theevangelical movement. READ MORE

  4. 2. Zvinorwadza : Being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

    Author : Olov Dahlin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Patient; life-worlds; Mberengwa; Karanga; Zimbabwe; religious plurality; traditional religion; Christianity; African-initiated churches; medical plurality; traditional medicine; faith healing; modern health care; biomedicine; sickness; healing; placebo; nocebo; cooperation; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionssociologi; religionssociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses these basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients' life-worlds look like? In order to find answers to these questions, an in-depth fieldwork was carried out through which I was able to study how patients reacted to illness. I followed twenty patients in their search of ease, of which ten were members of Chief Mataga's family, with whom I was staying. READ MORE

  5. 3. Conversion and Contextual Conceptions of Christ: A Missiological Study among Young Converts in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

    Author : Carl Sundberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; Kä Mana; Buana Kibongi; B.; Bujo; Kongo; Ta Kimbangi; Brazzaville; Republic of Congo; Conversion conversion stories; Christology Africa; Missiology Congo Brazzaville; Eglise Evangélique du Congo; African Traditional Religion; Africa youth; African Independent Churches; Nganga; Ndoki; Kindoki; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : This study presents contextual conceptions of Christ among young urban converts, within the Evangelical Church of Congo (EEC). The basic data consists of interviews, conversion stories, gathered during fieldwork in 1995-1997. From the data explicit and implicit conceptions of Christ were deducted and accounted for in the study. READ MORE

  6. 4. African Women and Religious Change: A study of the Western Igbo of Nigeria with a special focus on Asaba town

    Author : Victoria O. Ibewuike; Sven-Erik Brodd; Anita Jacobson-Widding; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Missionary studies; Asaba; women; traditional religion; Catholic Church; Africa; Missionsvetenskap; Missionary studies; Missionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study focuses on a small ethnic group in the western part of Igboland called Asaba. It describes how the religious and socio-political role of women has changed, due to colonialism, modernisation, Western education and Christianity, which were brought by the groups of Europeans and Americans, who penetrated Africa in the nineteenth century. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Birth of Religion among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau

    Author : Inger Callewaert; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Herbal medicine 3.Modernisation; Divination; Ritual songs; Witchcraft; Ritual; Prophetic movement; Ancestor cult; Anthropology of Religion; Balanta 2.History of Religions; 1.West Africa; Guinea-Bissau; Gender; Theology; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with a recent event within the history of religions, the rise and development of a non-Christian prophetic movement named Kiyang-yang within the oral, kinship and ancestor based society of the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau. Kiyang-yang is headed by young women and men under the leadership of a woman prophet. READ MORE