BC-School of Theology

Permanent URI for this community

https://repo.pacuniversity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3892

Browse

Browsing BC-School of Theology by Title

Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    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.
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    African Hermeneutics
    (ACTS, 2019-01-01) Mburu, Elizabeth
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception
    (Walter de Gruyter, 2019-09) Rutere, Joshua
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    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.
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    Young People as social actors: Empowering youth to address bad governance and corruption and corruption in Africa
    (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019-08-01) Chiroma, Nathan
    Social change could be defined as the process of shifting attitudes, values, and actions to address social problems in a positive way. Today's youth have both the power and the potential to change the world positively. Social change led by young people have proven to have a lasting impact (Andy&Canmel2006). Conventionally, the youth in Africa have been asked to keep away from politics and governance. It is, however, the case that good governance and the fight against corruption are realistic with youth empowerment. Deo1ographically, Africa is the most youthful continent: it has more children and young people than any other continent in the world. This chapter focuses on how we can empower young people in the fight against corruption and bad governance in Africa. The chapter argues that young people, if properly empowered, will play a central role in combating the threats and challenges posed by bad governance and corruption in most African countries. It further argues for the role of the youth in nation-building as a crucial element to good governance and a corruption-free society. Young people have been proven to be problem solvers, to have a positive influence on their peers and the nation, and are extremely ambitious. They have the ability to create an identity for themselves and move the nation forward. However, one thing is still missing: proper empowerment that will propel them to become the social actors they ought to be in the fight against corruption and bad governance