Making Sadza with deaf Zimbabwean women : : a missiological reorientation of practical theological method / / Kirk Alan VanGilder.

• Superior document: Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) - Band 012
• Author: VanGilder, Kirk.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) - Band 012
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"A community of Deaf Zimbabwean women struggling to develop their own agency in relation to child rearing practices is Kirk VanGilder's focus of study. He explores a variety of theological approaches from practical theology, mission oriented theologians, theology among Deaf communities, and African women's theology in relationship to the challenges presented by subaltern communities. Rather than frame a comprehensive methodology, VanGilder proposes attitudes and guideposts to reorient practical theological researchers who wish to engender self-theologizing agency in subaltern communities"--P. [4] of cover.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Part I: The Need for a Theological Sadza; Chapter One: The Practical Theologian in a Missiological Setting; A Recipe for Theological Sadza; For Whom Is This Written? AVexing Issue of Audience; Boundaries and Borders of the Study; Terminology; Outline of the Study; Chapter Two: Examining the Problem and Context; Deaf Life in Zimbabwe; Shona Child Rearing Practices; Confronting Dilemmas in Research Methodology : Postcolonial Considerations; Framing the Questions of Deaf Zimbabwean Women as a Practical Theological Issue

A Problem of Audience and Context: Using Theological Models to CommunicateAn Overview of Theological Modeling; Examples of Theological Modeling; Cooking Sazda with Deaf Zimbabwean Women: A Theological Model; Part II: The Ingredients on Hand: A Review of Existing Methodologies; Selecting Theological Methods for Examination; Chapter Three: Browning, Poling and Miller, and Miller-McLemore; Don S. Browning's A Fundamental Practical Theology; James N. Poling and Donald E. Miller's Foundations for a Practical Theology of Ministry

Bonnie Miller-McLemore's Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian PerspectiveInterlude: Cooking Sadza with Browning, Poling and Miller, and Miller-McLemore; Chapter Four: Schreiter and Hastings; Robert Schreiter's Constructing Local Theologies; Thomas John Hastings's Practical Theology and the One Body of Christ; Interlude: Cooking Sadza with Schreiter and Hastings; Chapter Five: Lewis and Morris; Hannah Lewis' Deaf Liberation Theology; Wayne Morris' Theology Without Words; Interlude: Cooking Sadza with Lewis and Morris; Chapter Six: Dube and Kanyoro

Musa Dube's Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the BibleMusimbi Kanyoro's Introducing Feminist Cultural Hermeneutics: An African Perspective; Interlude: Cooking Sadza with Dube and Kanyoro; Assessing the IngredientsonHand; Part III: Adding New Ingredients; Chapter Seven: New Proposals for Guiding Practical Theological Methodology; The Creativity of Enacted Theologizing as a Method of Critical Correlation; Interlude: Stirring the Sadza Pot with Enacted Theology; Building Checks and Balances into "Reading With" Methodologies: Cultivating Humility in Practical Theology

Interlude: Stirring the Pot with a System of Checks and Balances .Building Bridges of Commonality and Community : Encountering Grace in the Cross-Cultural Processes of Practical Theology . .; Interlude: Stirring the Pot with Bridges of Commonality; Chapter Eight: Conclusion and Future Directions; Drafting a Recipe: A Possible Way Forward; Furthering the Academic Discourse Between Practical Theology and Missiology; Considering Wider Applications; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover