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Interpreting classical religious texts in contemporary Africa / by Knut Holter, editor.

Contributor(s): Holter, Knut, 1958-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Kenya : Acton Publishers, 2007Description: 219 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9966888543 (pbk.); 9789966888549Subject(s): Bible -- Hermeneutics -- Congresses | Africa -- Religion -- Congresses | Qurʼan -- Hermeneutics -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
African hermeneutics in global context : conceptual clarifications / [J.N.K. Mugambi] -- African versus Western hermeneutics / [D.R.K. Nkurunziza] -- Interpreting strange texts : hermeneutics as distance overcoming / [B. Mœland] -- Religious texts in critical contexts : the interpretation of classical religious texts in contemporary African academia / [K. Holter] -- Reading classical Islamic texts in contemporary Africa / [T.L. Hassan] -- The Lemba : the "People of the book" in Southern Africa / [Magdel Le Roux] -- "Children, do you have any fish?" : re-inventing the Kairos document / [M.D. Biyela] -- Moses and his Cushite wife : reading Numbers 12:1 with undergraduate students of Makerere University / [P. Lokel] -- The poor are not us! : an exploration into the transforming possiblities of Old Testament and African proverbs on poverty / [L.P. Kimilike] -- Reading African true and traditional religion in Uganda / [A.B.T. Byaruhanga-Akiiki] -- Hebrew shalom and Lusoga eidembe / [N.H. Nambalirwa] -- It's on the old mat that one weaves the new one : the dialogue between African proverbs and biblical texts / [W. van Heerden] -- The Old Testament outside the realm of the church : a case from Madagascar / [G.A. Razafindrakoto] -- Killed by AIDS and buried by religion : African female bodies in crisis / [M. Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele)] -- Reading African religion in contemporary Africa : a study of its impact and contribution towards [an] African Christianity / [S.B. Kahakwa] -- Theology of ancestors from and African perspective / [S.B. Kahakwa]

Selections originally presented at an international conference held at Makerere University (Uganda) in November 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

African hermeneutics in global context : conceptual clarifications / [J.N.K. Mugambi] -- African versus Western hermeneutics / [D.R.K. Nkurunziza] -- Interpreting strange texts : hermeneutics as distance overcoming / [B. Mœland] -- Religious texts in critical contexts : the interpretation of classical religious texts in contemporary African academia / [K. Holter] -- Reading classical Islamic texts in contemporary Africa / [T.L. Hassan] -- The Lemba : the "People of the book" in Southern Africa / [Magdel Le Roux] -- "Children, do you have any fish?" : re-inventing the Kairos document / [M.D. Biyela] -- Moses and his Cushite wife : reading Numbers 12:1 with undergraduate students of Makerere University / [P. Lokel] -- The poor are not us! : an exploration into the transforming possiblities of Old Testament and African proverbs on poverty / [L.P. Kimilike] -- Reading African true and traditional religion in Uganda / [A.B.T. Byaruhanga-Akiiki] -- Hebrew shalom and Lusoga eidembe / [N.H. Nambalirwa] -- It's on the old mat that one weaves the new one : the dialogue between African proverbs and biblical texts / [W. van Heerden] -- The Old Testament outside the realm of the church : a case from Madagascar / [G.A. Razafindrakoto] -- Killed by AIDS and buried by religion : African female bodies in crisis / [M. Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele)] -- Reading African religion in contemporary Africa : a study of its impact and contribution towards [an] African Christianity / [S.B. Kahakwa] -- Theology of ancestors from and African perspective / [S.B. Kahakwa]

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