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A History of Pew Renting in the Church of England
This book is a comprehensive study of the history of pew-renting in the church of England, from the first known rented sittings in the fifteenth...
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500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipino/a Postcolonial Perspectives
The year 2021 marked the five-hundredth anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines. With over 90% of the Filipin@s (Filipino/as) in the country...
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Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam The World of Women-Centric Islam
Around the world, Islamic cultures have developed distinctive matrilineal, matrifocal, matrilocal, or matriarchal natures as a result of how they...
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Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers Earth, Gender, and the Sacred
This volume explores contemporary African women’s creative writing, highlighting their contributions to ecofeminist theology. Contributors address...
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‘It’s Giving … Colonization’: Challenges to Mental Resilience for Diasporic Christian Pacific Youth
This chapter reflects on the pressures and challenges being faced by diasporic Pacific youth. Organizing her reflections around an episode of the...
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Unsettling Providential Partnership: A Critical Examination of Robert Maunsell and George Grey’s Partnership in Māori Education
This chapter reflects on the entanglements of education, Christianity, and colonialism in Aotearoa by exploring one specific friendship and...
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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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Unsettling Jesus Christ: Indigenous and Settler Christologies in the Aftermath of Colonisation
This chapter proposes that in the aftermath of colonisation at least two different Christologies or images of Christ are required. First, the author...
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Uncovering the Mat: Restorative Justice for the Dawn Raids?
This chapter revisits an ifoga ceremony that was conducted in August 2021 in Aotearoa New Zealand, in which the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...
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Crop Diseases and Food Insecurity in Africa: A Hindu Perspective
Africa as a continent has been grappling with a number of calamities. These have left a devastation not just to her environment but to the...
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African Women, Religion, Climate Change and Food Security in the Context of Pandemics
Climate change, food insecurity and pandemics threaten the health and wellbeing of many people, particularly women, in Africa. Both the United...
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Prophetic Action, Climate Change, Food Security, and SDG 2 in Africa
This chapter analyzes the prophetic actions by the church in relation to climate change and food security in Africa in light of SDG 2. It argues that...
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Religious Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Security in Ghana
There has been a global journey toward ending poverty and inequalities while protecting the earth as captured in the Sustainable Development Goals...
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Pentecostalism, Theology of Survival and Food Security in Zimbabwe
This chapter examines some of the controversial Zimbabwean Pentecostal beliefs and practices, enshrined in their theology of survival. The deployment...
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Catholicism, Climate Change and Pests in Africa
The threat posed by insect pests is one of the major challenges to food production in Africa. By feeding on plant tissues and transmitting viral...
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The Glocal Filipin@s and the Pasyon Through the Lens of Ethnicity
This chapter continues the discussion on the pasyon, the non-stop chanting of the passion of Christ during Holy Week in the Philippines. It engages...
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The East African Revival
The East African Revival emerged in the 1930s as a populist movement seeking the spiritual and moral reform of the mission churches of East Africa....
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Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of Women in Africa
This chapter focuses on the role of Western women in the evangelization of women in sub-Saharan Africa from the early 1800s through the end of formal...
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Environmental Ethics of African Women Theologians
The main question that undergirds this chapter is: Which African philosophies inform the ethics of African women’s eco-critical theology? This...
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The Maternal Initiative Role in the Japanese Muslim Community: Japanese Muslim Wives as Mediators Between Muslim Immigrants and Japanese Society
In Japan, the rapid increase of the Muslim population started in the 1980s. From the 1980s to 2010s, the first generation of immigrants from...