Africa
Liberated Mindsets, Literate Minds: Reflections on Christianity and Development in Africa
Stephen Walter, J. Brady Anderson Monday, 29 November 2010
Since the Reformation the Christian tradition has insisted that its scriptures should and must be available to everyone. Both literacy and faith convey levels of liberation and empowerment that fundamentally reorder one's standing in life.
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Legal Regulation of Religion in the Third World: Afro-Asian Paradigms
Tahir Mahmood Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Current constitutional documents from various Asian and African countries reveal three different models of religion-state relations. Legal regulation is not a magic formula that eliminates religion-based inequality and injustice.
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The All Africa Conference of Churches and the Quest for Peace in Africa
Nyansako-ni-Nku Wednesday, 9 June 2010
The All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), an ecumenical council representing church bodies from across sub-Saharan Africa, has provided a context for collective dialogue and action across Africa's many social and religious diversities since 1963.
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The Myth of the Non-Political Church
Amy Patterson Wednesday, 9 June 2010
A review of Timothy Longman, Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
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Christianity and Conflict in Africa
R. Drew Smith Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Churches have been important institutions within Africa's characteristically weak civil society sector, and have possessed moral and social capital that contributed in a number of cases to the mediation of hostilities and movement toward peace and reconciliation. [FREE]
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Balancing Faith-Based Strategies in U.S.-Africa Policy
R. Drew Smith Monday, 1 September 2008
The PEPFAR program demonstrates the benefits and guidelines for government partnerships with faith-based organizations, and these partnerships should be expanded in other initiatives in Africa.
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ABC's and AIDS: Condom Nation?
Chris Hickey Wednesday, 1 September 2004
Those Christians who see AIDS up close are quietly rethinking faith-based strategies against the disease.
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