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

"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, an...

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Superior document:Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) - Band 012
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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.
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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