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Title:African Women Doing Theology: A Survey
Author:Lagerwerf, LenyISNI
Year:1990
Periodical:Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context
Volume:19
Issue:1
Pages:1-69
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:Christian theology
women
bibliographies (form)
Cultural Roles
Religion and Witchcraft
External link:https://doi.org/10.1163/157254390X00167
Abstract:Not only do certain negative aspects of traditional society still influence women's lives in Africa, but also, and even more so, the consequences of colonialism, including the missionaries' presence, and neocolonialism. From this reality, an African women's theology has to grow. This bibliographical survey of literature on African women's theology is divided according to the following subject headings: 1) Meetings; 2) Methodology/hermeneutics (women's experiences, rereading the Bible, rereading church history); 3) African tradition: sociocultural issues (the religious role of women, impurity, marriage/motherhood, childbirth/motherhood, polygamy); 4) Women in the Bible (women in the Old Testament: Eve and Adam, women in ancient Israel; women in the New Testament: Jesus and women, women in the early church); 5) Women and men in the church (ecclesiology/community, leadership (including women-for-women leadership, theological education, remuneration and ordination), women and evangelism, women's church organizations, women and development; and 6) Other themes (Christology: women's self-affirmation, Christ in the African context, spirituality; and Mariology). The author briefly discusses the literature on each item. Bibliogr., notes.
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