Title The Palgrave handbook of African social ethics / Nimi Wariboro, Toyin Falola, editors

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 634 pages) Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Family and Community (Eros as in Belonging, Togetherness) -- Chapter 2: Ethics of Family, Community and Childrearing -- Introduction -- Conceptual Review -- Ethics and the Child -- Family and the Community -- Attachment Theory -- Argument on What Attachment Theories Constitute -- A Brief Overview of the African Culture and Childrearing Before Western and European Incursion -- Science, ICT and the Act of Caregiver -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography Chapter 3: Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis -- Introduction -- The Western Nuclear Family and the Critique of Its Monolithic Notion -- Organizing the Domestic Sphere: How Gender Roles Were Formed and Maintained -- Heterosexuals Without Children, Homosexuals with Children: What Really Is Family? -- The Extended African Family -- Understanding the African Traditional Family: Consanguineal, Conjugal or Both? -- Organizing the Domestic Sphere: (Gender Roles) in African Traditional Families with Focus on the Yoruba Conclusion: Power Dynamics in (Western) Nuclear Families and (African) Extended Families -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations) -- Conceptual Discourse on Child and Childhood -- Child Labor -- Child Witchcraft Accusation -- Witchcraft and Witchcraft Accusation -- Witchcraft Accusation and Children -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya -- Introduction: Emerging Trends in Family Relations in Kenya Theorizing Patriarchy: An Overview of Patriarchy and Gender Relations in Kenya -- Preaching a Heterosexual Gospel? Masculine Christianity, Patriarchy and Single Women in Contemporary Kenya! -- Selected Christian Churches' Response to Single Women in Kenya -- Praying for Husbands: Pastor Chris Ojigbani of Singles and Married Ministries International -- Reverend Lucy Natasha of Prophetic Latter Glory Ministries -- Between Agency and Vulnerability: Single Women Navigating Christian Singlehood in the Ministry of Repentance and Holiness (MRH) Rev. Linda Ochola-Adolwa: Helping Christians Navigate Relationship Spaces -- Theorizing Singlehood, Patriarchy and Masculine Christianity in Contemporary Kenya -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context -- Introduction -- Who Is a Human Person? -- Anthropocentric Foundation in Perceiving a Person in Africa -- The African Communitarian Person -- What Is the Extent of the African Communalism? -- Changing the Perception of the Human Person -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Personhood in Africa -- Introduction Summary This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africas ethical life and thought Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Nature and Constitution of Personhood Print version record Subject Social ethics -- Africa -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Civilization Economic history Politics and government Social ethics Social history -- Moral and ethical aspects SUBJECT Africa -- Social conditions -- Moral and ethical aspects Africa -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century Africa -- Politics and government -- 21st century Africa -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001534 Subject Africa Genre/Form handbooks. Handbooks and manuals Handbooks and manuals. Guides et manuels. Form Electronic book Author Wariboko, Nimi, 1962- Falola, Toyin. ISBN 3030364909 9783030364908

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