Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa

Joram Tarusarira, Ezra Chitando

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000172379
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Sessualità e genere nella religione

This book reflects on major themes present at the interface between religion and human security in Africa. It probes the extent to which religion is both a threat to and a resource for human security in Africa by examining specific issues occurring across the continent.

A team of contributors from across Africa provide valuable reflections on the conceptualisation and applicability of the concept of human security in the context of religion in Africa. Chapters highlight how themes such as knowledge systems, youth, education, race, development, sacred texts, the media, sexual diversity, health and others have implications for individual and group security. In order to bring these themes into perspective, chapters in the first section reflect on the conceptual, historical and contextual factors at play. The chapters that follow demonstrate the theories put forward by means of case studies from countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, Botswana and Ghana that look at African religion, Islam and Christianity.

This is a detailed and informative volume that provides new insights into the discourse on religion and human security. As such, it will be of significant use to any scholar of Religion and Violence, Religion in Africa and Religious Studies, as well as African and Security Studies more generally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction: themes in religion and human security in Africa
• 1 Religion and the critique of human security
• 2 Religion and human security in Africa
• 3 The political economy of religious violence in Africa
• 4 African traditional religion and human security in Ghana
• 5 Indigenous knowledge systems, Ubuntu/Hunhu and the preservation of ecosystems in Zimbabwe: implications for human security
• 6 Race, schooling and religious conflict at the Bulawayo Indian School, Southern Rhodesia, 1935–1950
• 7 Religious tribalism, local morality and violence in Christian Kenya
• 8 Terrorism in Africa: explaining the need for good governance in order to promote human security
• 9 Development as a factor in the religion and human security nexus in Africa
• 10 Is Islam the problem or the victim of violence? Selective interpretation of sacred texts and the threat to living together in Africa
• 11 Communicating religious extremism in West Africa
• 12 The ambivalence of the immanent: human security and the development response to HIV and AIDS in Uganda
• 13 Engaging youth for a sustainable culture of peace and security in Kenya: the role of faith-based/inspired organizations and other non-state actors
• 14 The church in Botswana: an ally or an enemy of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community?
• 15 From faith through hospital to faith: value prisms of health seeking in Ghana
• 16 Teaching religion and human security in Africa
• Index