African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance

Musa W. Dube, Telesia K. Musili, Sylvia Owusu-Ansah (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-60897-6 (ISBN)

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This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories. It considers the intersection of gender and spirituality in subverting patriarchy, colonialism, anthropocentricism, and capitalism as well as elevating African women to the social space of speaking as empowered subjects with public influence. The chapters examine historical, cultural, and religious African women legends who became champions of liberation and their approach to social justice. The authors suggest that their stories of resistance hold great potential for building justice-loving Earth Communities. This book will be of interest to scholars of religion, gender studies, indigenous studies, African studies, African-indigenous knowledges, postcolonial studies, among others.

Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017). She is a biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Dube is also Professor Extraordinaire in UNISA, Centre for Gender Studies. Telesia K. Musili is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is a national coordinator of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is Dean of the School of Theology at Perez University, Ghana. She is Vice-President of the Missiological Society of Ghana based at Trinity Theological Seminary and Head Pastor of Revival Temple, Perez Chapel International La.

Foreword by Elias Kifon Bongmba

Part 1: Women-Centred Origins and Solidarity with Mother Earth

1 “ Bones Shall Rise Again!” African Legendary Women and the Spirituality of Resistance

Musa W. Dube

2 “Powerhouse of Feminism”: Sitting with the Nine Daughters of Gīkūyū and Mūmbi, at the Ecological and Gender Hearth

Mary Wanjiku Kihuha

3 Wangari Maathai’s Environmental Spirituality as Grounded in African Indigenous Community Wisdom

Fancy Cheronoh

Part 2: Rain Queens and Rain Priestess, and Sangoma

4 The Modjadji Rain-Queendom of South Africa: Women as Guardians of the Traditional Mantle

A Lefatshe Moagi and Mr. B. Mtombeni

5 Towards makewana eco-theology: Motherhood, wife god and rain priestess

Fulata Lusungu Moyo and Joyce Mlenga

6 Isangoma and Wosana the Rain Priestess: women as vehicles to the sustainability of African Indigenous Religions

Senzokuhle Doreen Setume

Part 3: Legendary Women and Political Rebellion

7 Kimpa Vita: Revolutionary Prophetess and Martyr of the Kongo Kingdom

Maleke Marthe Kondemo

8 Wallata Petros of Ethiopia: Wife, Mother and Freedom Fighter

Meklit Mitiku Mamunu

9 Mbuya Nehanda: Priestess and Freedom Fighter of Zimbabwe

Molly Manyonganise

10 Nwanyeruwa: leading the nigerian women's war of 1929

Martina I. Oguntoyinbo-atere

Part 4: Sister Kings, Regent Queens and Queen Mothers

11 Makhadzi: The Salient Venda Cornerstone of Indigenous Public Leadership

Yvonne Winfildah Takawira-Matwapa

12 “The Indomitable Queen Labotsibeni of Eswatini: Where Gender and Religion Meet in a Patriarchal Space

Sonene Nyawo

Part 5: Founders of African Independent Churches

13 Lenshina Alice Mulenga: The Spirit of Resistance and Liberation

Dorothy Tembo

14 Mma Christinah Nku: Legendary spiritual woman

Linah Simimba Ndhlovu

15 Mai Chaza//Matenga: A Legendary African Woman Leader in Zimbabwean Spirituality

Amos Muyambo and Joseph Muyangata

Part 6: Legendary African Women Writers

16 “We should all be feminists”: A critical analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s African feminist resources for gender activism in Africa

Pauline Mateveke

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-60897-8 / 1032608978
ISBN-13	978-1-032-60897-6 / 9781032608976
Zustand	Neuware