Isabel Mukonyora
Biographic Data
| ID | 200877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabel Mukonyora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukonyora |
| SIGNATURE | MUKONYORA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis Revisited
THE PEOPLE'S ZION: SOUTHERN AFRICA, THE UNITED STATES, AND A TRANSATLANTIC FAITH-HEALING MOVEMENTBy Joel Cabrita. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018 Pp. 368. Hardcover, $37.71. The People's Zion is a groundbreaking study of a transatlantic faith-healing movement for workers of the nineteenth-century geological era of the rapid industrialization of the world. As Stephen Neill put it, “The whole world was open to Wes…
Emotions as Affective Trajectories of Belief in Mwari (God) among Masowe Apostles in Urban Zimbabwe
God-Emitai and Women Prophets
Although it is easy to comprehend why women found more spiritual fulfillment as prophets of Emitai than as prophets of the patriarchal Christian God, it is interesting to observe women claiming to be messengers of Emitai. Baum's book is a religious response to slavery, colonial conquest, world wars, droughts, disease, and social upheavals
Four ways into an African sacred wilderness: A study of Johane Masowe's teaching
This article focuses on four ways of explaining the term masowe in relation to the founder figure, Johane Masowe (1914–1973). First, the term refers to a liminal place or threshold for divine intervention. Johane Masowe claims authority as a prophet by making inexplicit yet obvious references to biblical stories about a sacred wilderness. Second, the term masowe draws attention to problems of displacement caused by colonialism and postcolonial op…
An African Gospel of Survival in an Age of Ecological Destruction
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Commentary
Masowe Migration: A Quest for Liberation in the African Diaspora
This article shows how the Shona-speaking prophet Johane Masowe (1914-1973) adapted Christianity to the difficult human conditions that forced him and his followers to migrate from Zimbabwe during the economic depression of the 1930s. It suggests that the prophet Johane constructs a distinctly African theology of liberation by using the Exodus as symbolic language expressive of human suffering and hope for the redemption of African victims of opp…
Globalisation and the University in Africa
Current Affairs
Four ways into an African sacred wilderness: A study of Johane Masowe's teaching
This article focuses on four ways of explaining the term masowe in relation to the founder figure, Johane Masowe (1914–1973). First, the term refers to a liminal place or threshold for divine intervention. Johane Masowe claims authority as a prophet by making inexplicit yet obvious references to biblical stories about a sacred wilderness. Second, the term masowe draws attention to problems of displacement caused by colonialism and postcolonial op…
Commentary
Masowe Migration: A Quest for Liberation in the African Diaspora
This article shows how the Shona-speaking prophet Johane Masowe (1914-1973) adapted Christianity to the difficult human conditions that forced him and his followers to migrate from Zimbabwe during the economic depression of the 1930s. It suggests that the prophet Johane constructs a distinctly African theology of liberation by using the Exodus as symbolic language expressive of human suffering and hope for the redemption of African victims of opp…
Current Affairs
Globalisation and the University in Africa
Commentary
Masowe Migration: A Quest for Liberation in the African Diaspora
This article shows how the Shona-speaking prophet Johane Masowe (1914-1973) adapted Christianity to the difficult human conditions that forced him and his followers to migrate from Zimbabwe during the economic depression of the 1930s. It suggests that the prophet Johane constructs a distinctly African theology of liberation by using the Exodus as symbolic language expressive of human suffering and hope for the redemption of African victims of opp…
An African Gospel of Survival in an Age of Ecological Destruction
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Four ways into an African sacred wilderness: A study of Johane Masowe's teaching
This article focuses on four ways of explaining the term masowe in relation to the founder figure, Johane Masowe (1914–1973). First, the term refers to a liminal place or threshold for divine intervention. Johane Masowe claims authority as a prophet by making inexplicit yet obvious references to biblical stories about a sacred wilderness. Second, the term masowe draws attention to problems of displacement caused by colonialism and postcolonial op…
God-Emitai and Women Prophets
Although it is easy to comprehend why women found more spiritual fulfillment as prophets of Emitai than as prophets of the patriarchal Christian God, it is interesting to observe women claiming to be messengers of Emitai. Baum's book is a religious response to slavery, colonial conquest, world wars, droughts, disease, and social upheavals
Emotions as Affective Trajectories of Belief in Mwari (God) among Masowe Apostles in Urban Zimbabwe
Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis Revisited
THE PEOPLE'S ZION: SOUTHERN AFRICA, THE UNITED STATES, AND A TRANSATLANTIC FAITH-HEALING MOVEMENTBy Joel Cabrita. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018 Pp. 368. Hardcover, $37.71. The People's Zion is a groundbreaking study of a transatlantic faith-healing movement for workers of the nineteenth-century geological era of the rapid industrialization of the world. As Stephen Neill put it, “The whole world was open to Wes…
Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Apostles (3 works)