Mother Earth, Mother Africa World Religions and Environmental Imagination.
Ever since independence from Britain in 1966, Lesotho has been an experimental laboratory of various governance models. The country has experienced multi-party models, plain dictatorships, one-party dominated models, military juntas and, recently, coalition governments. The advent of coalition polit...
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2022
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Situating Mother Earth, Mother Africa: World religions and environmental imagination -- Section A: Religion, gender and environmental sustainability in Africa -- Section B: Gender, religion and access to land ownership in Africa -- Section C: Mother Africa and religious imagination: Gender discourse -- Conclusion -- References -- Section A: Religion, gender and environmental sustainability in Africa -- Mother | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1 -- 'Your house is left to you desolate': On Christian grief and faith for Africa and earth in the climate crisis -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Mother Africa's riches and risks -- Climate crisis as an intersectional issue: Three dimensions -- Theological introspection in light of the climate crisis -- Grief as a spiritual discipline -- Re-awakening the sacred -- Hope-filled praxis -- Faith: Re-reading -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 -- The Christic Okavango Delta of Botswana -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Setting the context -- Christic environmental liberation paradigm | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Okavango Delta -- Anthropocentric threats to the Okavango Delta -- The significance of the Christic Okavango Delta liberation paradigm -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 -- African Islam and environmental sustainability: A case study of theVaremba Muslim womenin Zimbabwe -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The land as perceived by the Varemba Muslims in Mberengwa -- Varemba Muslim women and access to land ownership -- Cooking, washing and cleaning -- Fetching water -- Fetching firewood -- Taking care of children -- Cultivation of crops and tending gardens | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Preservation of animals -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 -- Mother Earth, our life support system: Perspectives from a Catholic nun -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Theresa -- The alternative or new story -- From dominion over nature to custodians of nature -- Environmental conservation in traditional Shona society: Patriarchy andenvironment -- The Catholic Church and caring for Mother Earth -- Ecological examen: Ignatian reflection on care for creation -- Theresa's prayer -- Pastoral care as ecological care -- Path of life (POL) metaphor -- Conclusion -- 92References | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5 -- The Mother Earth Centre: A narrative of the Comboni Missionary Sisters' contributions to environmental sustainability in western Zambia -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- A brief history of the Comboni Missionary Sisters in Zambia -- Conceptualising environmental sustainability -- Theoretical framework -- Comboni Missionary Sisters and environmental sustainability -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 -- African Cosmological View: The role of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the preservation of Mount Kenya Forest -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- African cosmological view | |
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