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Circle Of Concerned African Women Theologians
The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians is a pan-African ecumenical organization supporting scholarly research of African women theologians. The Circle serves to mentor the next generation of African women theologians throughout their academic careers in order to counter the dearth of academic theological literature by African women. The Circle has chapters in more than a dozen countries across the African continent, as well as diaspora chapters in Europe and North America. History The organization was formally established in 1989 at Trinity College in Legon, Ghana, with 79 founding members convened by the Ghanaian theologian Mercy Oduyoye. Oduyoye contends it informally began in 1976 when she invited female scholars of theology and religion to join the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. However, quota limits hindered these activities, which gave a stimulus for ultimately establishing the Circle. The official launch in 1989 was as "a culmination of a dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Association
A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honour conferred by election. Most learned societies are non-profit organizations, and many are professional associations. Their activities typically include holding regular conferences for the presentation and discussion of new research results and publishing or sponsoring academic journals in their discipline. Some also act as professional bodies, regulating the activities of their members in the public interest or the collective interest of the membership. History Some of the oldest learned societies are the Académie des Jeux floraux (founded 1323), the Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana (founded 1488), the Accademia della Crusca (founded 1583), the Accade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Mombo
Esther Mombo (born 1957) is a Kenyan Anglican theologian who teaches church history and theologies from women's perspectives. Biography Born in Birongo village of Kisii County, Kenya to a Seventh-day Adventist father and a Quaker mother, Mombo received a BD from St Paul's United Theological College (now St. Paul's University, Limuru) and an MPhil from the Irish School of Ecumenics of Trinity College Dublin. She returned to Kenya to teach at an Anglican bible college, where she became an Anglican herself. Mombo completed a PhD in 1998 at School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh as part of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World. She wrote her PhD thesis on the topic "A historical and cultural analysis of the position of Abaluyia Women in Kenyan Quaker Christianity: 1902-1979." Esther is reputed for her exemplary academic prowess in the fight of gender justice as observed in Virginia Theological Seminary awarding her an honorary degree in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EATWOT
The Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) is a network of theologians coming primarily from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and interested in creating theology that is relevant for their contexts. The group tended to critique traditional Christian theology as being too European and underscored the need for theology that addressed the challenges of poverty and oppression. History O. K. Bimwenyi from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was one of the key figures of the formation of EATWOT. While Bimwenyi was studying in Catholic University of Louvain, he visited the general meeting of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in India in December 1974 and discussed the need for a network of theologians to address the pressing concerns of poverty and oppression in the third world. In 1976, the first official meeting of EATWOT would be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Joshua Russell Chandran as its first president until 1981. From this early start, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Getui
Mary Getui (born 1959) is a Kenyan theologian and professor of religious studies at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. In 2009, Getui was named a Moran of the Burning Spear. She was appointed as chair of the National Aids Control Council of Kenya that same year. Biography In an interview about her work, Getui mentions that she was born in Thika, Kenya, and that her father was a policeman. She notes that she went to school in Kisii as a child, and then attended St Mary’s Nyabururu Girls High School and Loreto Convent Limuru Girls High School. Getui also mentions that she was interested in becoming a teacher from an early age. Getui graduated from the University of Nairobi with a BA in Education in 1983. She then taught for two years at Upper Hill Secondary School, a boarding school in Kenya, where she taught Religion. Getui then began lecturing in the Religious Studies department in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresia Mbari Hinga
Teresia Mbari Hinga is a Kenyan Christian feminist theologian who is a professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California. Early life and education Hinga was born in Kenya to Agnes Wairimu and Ernest Hinga, pioneer African Catholics who treated their male and female children equally, including in education. Hinga attended a Loreto high school.* She received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Religious Studies from Kenyatta University in 1977 and a master's in Religious Studies from Nairobi University in 1980. She earned in PhD from the University of Lancaster in the UK in 1990 with a thesis titled ''Women, Power and Liberation in an African Church: A Theological Case Study of the Legio Maria Church in Kenya'' on the role of women in African Christianity. Hinga is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and a member of the Kenyan Chapter of the Circle. Career Hinga is one of the co-founders of the Circle of Concerned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulata Moyo
Fulata Lusungu Mbano Moyo is a Malawian systematic and feminist theologian who is an advocate for gender justice. Early life and education Fulata Mbano was born in northern Malawi, a member of the Ngoni people from Mzimba District. Her great grandfather, Songea, was a warrior chief. Her name, Fulata, means she was born feet first. Her father started his own church after he was not accepted in mainline churches due to his polygamy. Moyo is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. She grew up in a small village called Engcongolweni Lazaro Jere and went to school in the nearest town, Ekwendeni. She attended a Roman Catholic high school, Marymount Girls Secondary School, before going on to study education at the University of Malawi, Chancellor College. Moyo completed a master's degree in Christian thought, systematic and feminist theology from the University of Zimbabwe in 1993, and earned a PhD from the School of Religion and Theology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Apawo Phiri
Isabel Apawo Phiri is a Malawian theologian known for her work in gender justice, HIV/AIDS, and African theology. She has been a Deputy Secretary for the World Council of Churches since 2012. Early life and education Phiri, a Chewa person, was born in Malawi and brought up in the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. She has a bachelor's degree in Education from the University of Malawi, a Master's in Religious Education from the University of Lancaster in England and a PhD from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. It was in South Africa that she was first exposed to feminist theology and liberation theology. Her doctoral thesis looked at the religious experience of Chewa women in Malawi. It was re-worked into her first book, which was the first book published by a Malawian woman theologian. Career Phiri is a teacher by profession. She is regarded as the "mother" of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in Malawi. She participated in the convocation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye ( Yamoah; born 21 October 1934) is a Ghanaian Methodist theologian known for her work in African women's theology. She is currently the director of the Institute of African Women in Religion and Culture at Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana. Biography Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye was born on her grandfather's cacao farm in Amoanna, near Asamankese, Ghana, in October 1934. The name Ewudziwa is of Akan origin and was given to her in honour of her grandfather. Oduyoye's story begins from her location where African theology, the impression of African women, and African culture influenced her greatly. She was the first-born child of nine siblings born to Charles Kwaw Yamoah, a teacher and pastor who became president of the Methodist Church in Ghana and a "strong-willed" mother, Mercy Dakwaa (Turkson) Yamoah. Oduyoye attended Mmofraturo, a Methodist girls boarding school in Kumasi, Ghana, where Biblical scholarship was a required study. In 1959, Od ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyambura Njoroge
Nyambura Jane Njoroge is a Kenyan ecumenical leader and ordained Presbyterian minister. She was the first Kenyan woman to be ordained in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. Biography Nyambura Njoroge was born on 4th December 1956 to Mary Muthoni wa Waruguru na Gacomba, and Rev. Daniel Githanji wa Gitogo. The mother was a midwife in their Nginda, Murang'a locality, who was a leader in the PCEA's Woman's Guild and local community. In a family of 9 daughters, she is the last born. In 1978, she enrolled in Saint Paul's United Theological College, the first African woman to undertake a Bachelor of Divinity degree. She graduated in 1980. She was ordained as a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa on the 5th of September 1982. She was the first woman to be ordained in the denomination. She attended the Louisville Presbyterian School in Kentucky, and in 1992, became the first African woman to earn a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. Her diss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musimbi Kanyoro
Musimbi Kanyoro (born 30 November 1953) is a Kenyan human rights advocate who served as the CEO and President of the Global Fund for Women from 2011 until 2019. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, and was elected as the first coordinator of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians at the continental gathering in 1996, a post she held until 2002. Musimbi Kanyoro also serves with former President of Ireland Mary Robinson on several projects, including the Board of Directors of Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative. Early life and education Kanyoro was born in Migori County, Kenya. Born in a rural area, Kanyoro moved into suburban Nairobi where she attended the Alliance girls school. She attributes being in a girls-only space as having a powerful way of building and shaping confidence in her early life. Growing up in the 1970s, her focus along with the African Continent was the liberation of South Africa. "Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musa Dube
Musa W. Dube (born 28 July 1964), also known as Musa Wenkosi Dube Shomanah, is a Botswanan feminist theologian and Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, known for her work in postcolonial biblical scholarship. Biography Dube studied New Testament in the University of Durham in 1990, before completed her PhD in New Testament at Vanderbilt University in 1997, where she was supervised under postcolonial biblical scholar Fernando Segovia. She was Professor of New Testament at the University of Botswana. Dube joined the faculty of Candler School of Theology in Fall 2021 as a Professor of New Testament. She has written over two hundred and sixty scholarly works throughout her academic career that focus on liberation theology through a feminist postcolonial lens. Dube is committed to approaching the biblical text from a feminist postcolonial lens. As a lay preacher in the Methodist church, Dube preaches a liberation theology which refuses to blame women for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigalia Bam
Brigalia Bam (born 1933) is an Anglican women's and social activist and writer. Personal life Brigalia Ntombemhlope Bam was born in 1933 in the former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape. Although Bam trained and worked as a teacher, she received further training in South Africa and abroad in the fields of social work, communication, and management. She is a qualified social worker with a post-graduate degree from the University of Chicago. Professional life Bam has held various posts throughout the world. She was the Africa Regional Secretary and Co-ordinator of the Women’s Workers' Programme for the International Food and Allied Workers Association based in Geneva. She has co-ordinated the World Young Men’s Christian Association's International Training Institute and Programme, as well as its affiliate, the Development for Human Rights. She was also Executive Programme Secretary for the Women’s Department of the World Council of Churches. Between 1997 and 1998, Bam served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
