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Religion, Food Security, and Climate Change Mitigation: A Case of Luangwa Valley Women of Eastern Zambia
Using the work of women farmers in the Luangwa Valley of Eastern Zambia, this chapter explores how Zambian women utilize indigenous knowledge systems...
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Toward Reclaiming the Wisdom of our Forebears: Nature and Environment from a Filipino Perspective
One of the most fundamental objectives of postcolonial studies is to critique and challenge the assumptions and presuppositions of former colonizers....
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Alliances and Divisions Within an Indigenous Evangelical Movement: The Case of Shipibo-Conibo Churches (Peruvian Amazonia)
Based on a case study of the growing Shipibo-Conibo Evangelical movement in the central Peruvian Amazonia, this chapter explores the networking...
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Re-Baptizing Spirit in Land and Ancestry: An Approach for Un-Doing Christian Colonialism
This chapter works toward develo** a Christian spirituality of land, tutored by involvement in Filipino indigenous struggle to halt land...
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The Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu
Adequate educative literature that gives insight into the evolutionary process of Christianity in Africa has been lacking, and the fact that scholars...
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Waves of Memory and Possibility: Remembering New Songs, Re-forming Old Ones as Asian Settlers
This essay looks at the presence of American popular music in post-war Korea as a formative factor in the Korean immigrant imagination. More...
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Elizabeth Isichei’s Contributions to the Study of Christianity
The scarcity of academic examination of religions in Africa, both the indigenous and externally motivated ones, has inadvertently led to the...
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Unsettling Theologies Means Unsettling Theological Institutions!
This chapter reflects on some concrete ways that we might begin to decolonise theological institutions in the Australian context. Drawing on the...
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Decolonial Options for World Christianity: Thinking and Acting with Santa Teresa Urrea and Prophet Garrick Sokari Braide
Mexican folk-saint Teresa Urrea and Niger Delta prophet-healer Garrick Braide, both lay leaders at the turn of the twentieth century, provide models...
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Views from Turtle Island: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Mormon Entanglements
There is a story that has been told and retold in Indigenous communities. In this oral tradition, Seneca farm hands, acquaintances of Joseph Smith,...
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Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project
This chapter examines intricate and varied Christian-Muslim relationships in colonized African societies. Whereas once it was assumed that European...
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Bangon Na, Pinays Rise Up: Reclaiming Pinay Power Dismantled by a Christian Colonial Past and Present
This chapter is about grappling with the effect of Christian colonization of the Philippines upon the Pinay (the Filipina). I argue that she can...
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Introduction
The study of spirituality has received increasing attention across different disciplines in recent years. In psychology, spirituality is often...
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Indigenization as Appropriation (What Being Baptized Could Have Meant for the Natives of Cebu in 1521)
Everything that we know about the two main events related to the 500th Year of the Arrival of Christianity in the Philippines—namely, the First Mass...
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Introduction: The Face and Interface
After this 2020 Pandemic, we should think, re-think, and re-organize our role and local, regional, and Global policies to determine whether we are...
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African Eco-feminisms: African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred
The chapter’s exposition highlights that African eco-feminisms are founded upon African cosmologies; African histories; and contemporary experiences...
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Decolonial Horizons: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the conference that inspired this volume, driven by our motivation to contribute to decolonizing the Church and ecclesiology...
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Traditional Religion, and Morality in Society
African Indigenous religions and moral values have a relationship that one could argue are inseparable because moral values draw from religious...
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What Does Ubuntu Manifest in This Pandemic
This chapter addresses the first domain question of what Ubuntu is, taking ground from so-called validating and adapting liberal discourses on human...
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Translation of the Bible, Other Religious Literature, and Indigenous Religious Texts: China
Written texts have always played a key role in advancing the Christian doctrine. Since the inception of Christianity, a set of texts has been...