These Catholic Sisters Are All Mamas!

Towards the Inculturation of the Sisterhood in Africa, an Ethnographic Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-11930-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies of Religion in Africa

In Africa religion is very much embedded in the social structure and the organisation of the peoples of that continent. That is why we will obtain a clear starting point for the eventual articulation of an 'African spirituality of religious life' by examining closely how religious life is evolving on the ground in the everyday experience of religious women.
After considering how the political and Church culture fostered the 'inculturation' of Catholic institutions, this ethnographic work documents the unfolding African expression of the Sisterhood among women religious in the former-Zaire.
Areas examined are: perception of the sister in terms of the people; incorporation of newer members; understanding of community life; local models of social relationships which affects sisters among themselves; dynamics of group decision-making; expression and resolution of social conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burke, Joan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Joan F. Burke, Ph.D. (1991), in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer at the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies (Nairobi). Since 1971 she has worked extensively with African Catholic Sisters in the former-Zaïre, Nigeria and East Africa.