{"title":"Jacob Onyumbe Wenyi. 2021. Piles of Slain, Heaps of Corpses: Reading Prophetic Poetry and Violence in African Context","authors":"Philip S. Johnston","doi":"10.3366/swc.2023.0424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2023.0424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47490011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Women in World Christianity: Navigating Identities","authors":"Nuam Hatzaw, Jessie Fubara-Manuel","doi":"10.3366/swc.2023.0415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2023.0415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47025075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The proliferation of religious extremism and religiously motivated violence in Africa is increasingly eliciting scholarly interest though there remains a deficiency in the feminisation of such discourse. Nigeria has endured the explosion of such religious extremism and violence, eliciting mass civil unrest, particularly in the last two decades. Often women are especially at risk of victimisation, enduring diverse forms of human rights violations including rape, kidnap, assault, torture and murder. However, their participation and instrumentalisation in orchestrating such acts of violence complexifies the relationship between gender and religiously motivated violence in Nigeria. In addition, the exploration of their efforts to form part of the nexus of public discourse critiquing religious extremism and violence in the public sphere within scholarly discourse leaves room for more to be said, especially with respect to Nigerian and African women. Through the juxtaposition of two such women-led efforts, this paper seeks to engage contemporary scholarship on the intersection of religion, violence and gender by examining the resources Nigerian and African women utilise in their mobilising quest towards demanding accountability and justice for the oppressed. As postcolonial beings whose lived experiences are often rendered through a prejudiced Western lens, this paper will argue that Nigerian and African women's pursuits for social justice are often constructed in spaces of duality where their ability to operate within and through seemingly contesting variables is affirmed, such that their agency is firmly asserted and remains uncontested.
{"title":"‘Womanhood on the Streets’: African Women at the Crossroads of Religious Violence and Social Justice","authors":"Ruth Vida Amwe","doi":"10.3366/swc.2023.0417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2023.0417","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of religious extremism and religiously motivated violence in Africa is increasingly eliciting scholarly interest though there remains a deficiency in the feminisation of such discourse. Nigeria has endured the explosion of such religious extremism and violence, eliciting mass civil unrest, particularly in the last two decades. Often women are especially at risk of victimisation, enduring diverse forms of human rights violations including rape, kidnap, assault, torture and murder. However, their participation and instrumentalisation in orchestrating such acts of violence complexifies the relationship between gender and religiously motivated violence in Nigeria. In addition, the exploration of their efforts to form part of the nexus of public discourse critiquing religious extremism and violence in the public sphere within scholarly discourse leaves room for more to be said, especially with respect to Nigerian and African women. Through the juxtaposition of two such women-led efforts, this paper seeks to engage contemporary scholarship on the intersection of religion, violence and gender by examining the resources Nigerian and African women utilise in their mobilising quest towards demanding accountability and justice for the oppressed. As postcolonial beings whose lived experiences are often rendered through a prejudiced Western lens, this paper will argue that Nigerian and African women's pursuits for social justice are often constructed in spaces of duality where their ability to operate within and through seemingly contesting variables is affirmed, such that their agency is firmly asserted and remains uncontested.","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49472824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christopher Tounsel. 2021. Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan","authors":"Jesse A. Zink","doi":"10.3366/swc.2023.0426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2023.0426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45820475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on empirical research, this article explores how Maronite young people participate in their church liturgy in Lebanon. It uses theories about religious identity development of emerging adults in general and Maronite identity in particular to analyse the data. It establishes that in a rapidly changing context, Maronite emerging adults interact with their church liturgy through a dynamic junction of commitment and exploration processes. The liturgical participation offers a space for engaging with the political, cultural and economic layers of what is called ‘maronitism’. The data harvested indicates that this liturgical participation is fraught with ambiguity and places the emerging adults’ social-spiritual identity in tension with the dominant discourses of their community maintained so far by both the religious and political elite.
{"title":"Maronite Liturgy as a Developmental Space for Its Emerging Adults in Lebanon","authors":"Rima Nasrallah, Ronelle Sonnenberg","doi":"10.3366/swc.2022.0400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2022.0400","url":null,"abstract":"Based on empirical research, this article explores how Maronite young people participate in their church liturgy in Lebanon. It uses theories about religious identity development of emerging adults in general and Maronite identity in particular to analyse the data. It establishes that in a rapidly changing context, Maronite emerging adults interact with their church liturgy through a dynamic junction of commitment and exploration processes. The liturgical participation offers a space for engaging with the political, cultural and economic layers of what is called ‘maronitism’. The data harvested indicates that this liturgical participation is fraught with ambiguity and places the emerging adults’ social-spiritual identity in tension with the dominant discourses of their community maintained so far by both the religious and political elite.","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43873840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Joel A. Carpenter (eds), Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa","authors":"Emma Wild-Wood","doi":"10.3366/swc.2022.0411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2022.0411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46056037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afe Adogame, Olufunke Adeboye and Corey L. Williams (eds), Fighting in God’s Name: Religion and Conflict in Local–Global Perspectives","authors":"Emmanuel Chiwetalu Ossai","doi":"10.3366/swc.2022.0409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2022.0409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48352832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrew W. H. Ashdown, Christian-Muslim Relations in Syria: Historic and Contemporary Religious Dynamics in a Changing Context","authors":"C. Chapman","doi":"10.3366/swc.2022.0407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2022.0407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46193271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay examines Catholic and Protestant missionary efforts in nineteenth-century Taiwan, emphasising real and perceived historical continuities from missionary work during the seventeenth century, as well as historical consciousness. The first section, entitled ‘Inventing a Restoration’, challenges the commonly accepted assumption implicit in many works, that nineteenth-century missionaries, whether Presbyterian or Catholic, were truly the natural successors to colonial-era missionaries they construed and portrayed themselves to be. Instead, the essay makes the case that the link to the colonial era was in part consciously cultivated and reinforced, serving the purpose of an etiological myth that helped stake a claim to the island’s unconverted masses. The second section, ‘Living in History’, examines the missionaries’ self-reinforced historical consciousness, and the role it played in moulding their own self-perception. Finally, the third section, ‘Memory and Strategy’, argues that the missionaries’ historical consciousness, as well as that of the Taiwanese indigenous population, shaped the strategies used for evangelisation. Indeed, it appears that missionary strategy in fact partly relied on reinforcing a historical consciousness of the colonial era among indigenous Taiwanese. As this essay hopes to demonstrate, there is much more to say about the spiritual legacy of seventeenth-century colonialism in Taiwan than has previously been thought.
{"title":"‘Returning to the faith of our forefathers’: The Role of Historical Consciousness in Shaping Christian Missionary Work in Nineteenth-Century Taiwan","authors":"Ladislav Charouz","doi":"10.3366/swc.2022.0405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2022.0405","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines Catholic and Protestant missionary efforts in nineteenth-century Taiwan, emphasising real and perceived historical continuities from missionary work during the seventeenth century, as well as historical consciousness. The first section, entitled ‘Inventing a Restoration’, challenges the commonly accepted assumption implicit in many works, that nineteenth-century missionaries, whether Presbyterian or Catholic, were truly the natural successors to colonial-era missionaries they construed and portrayed themselves to be. Instead, the essay makes the case that the link to the colonial era was in part consciously cultivated and reinforced, serving the purpose of an etiological myth that helped stake a claim to the island’s unconverted masses. The second section, ‘Living in History’, examines the missionaries’ self-reinforced historical consciousness, and the role it played in moulding their own self-perception. Finally, the third section, ‘Memory and Strategy’, argues that the missionaries’ historical consciousness, as well as that of the Taiwanese indigenous population, shaped the strategies used for evangelisation. Indeed, it appears that missionary strategy in fact partly relied on reinforcing a historical consciousness of the colonial era among indigenous Taiwanese. As this essay hopes to demonstrate, there is much more to say about the spiritual legacy of seventeenth-century colonialism in Taiwan than has previously been thought.","PeriodicalId":42820,"journal":{"name":"Studies in World Christianity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43721027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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