Interpreting classical religious texts in contemporary Africa
By: by Knut Holter, editor
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Acton Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Nairobi, Kenya
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Congresses; Hermeneutics; Bible; Qurʼan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A conference volume on the interpretation of classical religious text in contemporary Africa / K. Holter; title: Hermaneutical contexts; title: African hermaneutics in a global context : conceptual clarifications / J.N.K. Mugambi; title: African versus Western hermaneutics / D.R.K. Nkurunziza; title: Interpreting strange texts : hermaneutics as distance overcoming / B Mæland; title: Religious texts in critical contexts : the interpretation of classical religious texts in contemporary African academia / K. Holter; title: Classical religious texts in contemporary Africa; title: Reading classical Islamic texts in contemporary Africa / T.L. Hassan; title: The Lemba : the "People of the Book" in Southern Africa / Magdel Le Roux; title: "Children, do you have any fish?" : re-inventing the Kairos Document / M.D. Biyela; title: Moses and the cushite wife : reading Numbers 12:1 with undergraduate students of Makerere University / P. Lokel; title: The poor are not us! : an exploration into the transforming possibilities of Old Testament and African proverbs on poverty / L.P. Kimilike; title: Reading African true and traditional religion in Uganda / A.B.T. Byaruhanaga-Akiiki; title: Hebrew shalom and Lusoga eidembe / N.H. Nambalirwa; title: It's on the old mat that one weaves the new one : the dialogue between African proverbs and biblical texts / W. van Heerden; title: Classical religious texts in dialogue; title: The Old Testament outside the realm of the Church : a case from Madagascar / G.A. Razafindrakoto; title: Killed by AIDS and buried by religion : African female bodies in crisis / M. Masenya (ngwanʼa Mphahlele); title: Reading African religion in contemporary Africa : a study of its impact and contribution towards an African Christianity / S.B. Kahakwa; title: Theology of ancestors from an African perspective / S.B. Kahakwa; title: Index of authors.