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    The impact of scriptures on communities – The African experience
    (United bible societies, 2015-04-08) Muthwii, Margaret Jepkirui
    This paper on the impact of Scriptures on African communities draws most of its examples and reflection mainly from the Eastern Africa experience. It is written in honour of Dr. Kees de Blois and his wife Janneke for their many years of dedicated service to the Lord in Africa. In all their life in the Bible translation enterprise they have lived for one thing—to see Scriptures translated into the languages of the peoples of the world. Their success and the success of this enterprise “must not be judged only by the number of languages translated into or by the number of copies of New Testaments and Bibles that have been distributed. For the translator [like Kees], it is the role of the translated Scriptures in the life of the Christian that must be taken as the measure of its impact” (Noss 2004:21). This paper, therefore, explores the impact of the Scriptures in the Christian church birthed in Africa in the 19th, 20th and in the present century.
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    African Hermeneutics
    (ACTS, 2019-01-01) Mburu, Elizabeth
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    Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception
    (Walter de Gruyter, 2019-09) Rutere, Joshua
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    African Healing Shrines, Contextualized therapies and Specializations
    (Regnum Publishers, 2021-01-21) Chiroma, Nathan H.
    Throughout history, the quest for healing and wholeness outside conventional medicine has been a practice embraced by many. Medical pilgrimages outside of conventional hospitals were common practice in various eras in history. People travelled far and wide in the quest for healing in what is described as holy places such as shrines, prayer houses, monasteries and other locations. In Africa, the practice is not only gaining attention, but it is gaining more popularity, as a momentous social, spiritual and psychological issue. The existence of healing shrines and prayer houses are increasingly becoming popular, and many emerging themes and trends are adding new dimensions to the quest for healing and wholeness. One of the major emerging phenomena is that of specialisation. It is argued that specialisations are rooted either in heritage or calling as in the case of prayer houses. Specialisations are proving to be an important element in the healing sites. Specialisation in this context refers to the concentration on the healing of one or two ailments in a particular healing site. The focus of this chapter is to consider the dynamics of specialisation, especially as it occurs in healing shrines and prayer houses. Whereas healing shrines and prayer houses have been extensively studied in Africa, the aspect of specialisation has not received much attention among scholars. Specialisation as used in this chapter focuses only on one or two illnesses in a given healing shrine or prayer house.