Musa W. Dube
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Prof Musa W. Dube, a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) is a biblical scholar based at the University of Botswana. She studied the New Testament in the University of Durham (UK, 1990) and Vanderbilt University (USA 1997). She has served in several institutions, including World Council Churches, (Geneva) Scripps College (California), Union Theological College (New York); University of Stellenbosch (Cape Town); University of Bamberg (Germany) and University of South Africa (Pretoria. Her research interests include: gender, postcolonial, translation and HIV&AIDS studies. Prof Dube is an author of 262 academic works, published in journals, books, encyclopedias, educational modules, magazines; and an editor of eleven volumes. Prof Dube, a world-sought speaker and trainer who has given up to 162 papers in at least twenty-six countries, is the author of Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (Chalice Press, 2000) and The HIV and AIDS Bible: Some Selected Essays (Scranton Press, 2008). She has received up to 22 recognitions, consisting of awards, prizes, research grants, honors, scholarship and institutional affiliations. She is a member of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians; Society of Biblical Literature and United Methodist Church.
Supervisors: Prof Fernando S. Segovia
Prof Musa W. Dube, a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) is a biblical scholar based at the University of Botswana. She studied the New Testament in the University of Durham (UK, 1990) and Vanderbilt University (USA 1997). She has served in several institutions, including World Council Churches, (Geneva) Scripps College (California), Union Theological College (New York); University of Stellenbosch (Cape Town); University of Bamberg (Germany) and University of South Africa (Pretoria. Her research interests include: gender, postcolonial, translation and HIV&AIDS studies. Prof Dube is an author of 262 academic works, published in journals, books, encyclopedias, educational modules, magazines; and an editor of eleven volumes. Prof Dube, a world-sought speaker and trainer who has given up to 162 papers in at least twenty-six countries, is the author of Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (Chalice Press, 2000) and The HIV and AIDS Bible: Some Selected Essays (Scranton Press, 2008). She has received up to 22 recognitions, consisting of awards, prizes, research grants, honors, scholarship and institutional affiliations. She is a member of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians; Society of Biblical Literature and United Methodist Church.
Supervisors: Prof Fernando S. Segovia
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I would insist that contemporary Christian mission must concern itself with all that desacralizes life on earth. It must rally against all structural forces and institutions that militate against peace, equity and self-sufficiency of individuals and nations of every culture. The Christian mission must identify those forces that hinder the blossoming of God’s creation as a whole. Christian salvation can no longer concern itself with the denunciation of God’s diverse cultures of the world. Rather, Christian salvation must be regarded as creating environments in which the whole of God’s creation is given a chance for its maximum fulfillment, (Dube Shomanah 1997: 449).
a. women from different church backgrounds, that is, Mainline churches, African Independent Churches, and evangelical/pentecostal churches
b. How and why they became leaders and their experiences in church and society
c. models of gender empowerment that emerge from the studies.
Collected fieldwork data , therefore, sought to analyse stories of Batswana women in church leadership in order to identify strategies employed to assume church leadership. The conclusion maps out several strategies used by women to subvert gender-based exclusions , such as the use of an oral canon, instead of relying on the written word.
I would insist that contemporary Christian mission must concern itself with all that desacralizes life on earth. It must rally against all structural forces and institutions that militate against peace, equity and self-sufficiency of individuals and nations of every culture. The Christian mission must identify those forces that hinder the blossoming of God’s creation as a whole. Christian salvation can no longer concern itself with the denunciation of God’s diverse cultures of the world. Rather, Christian salvation must be regarded as creating environments in which the whole of God’s creation is given a chance for its maximum fulfillment, (Dube Shomanah 1997: 449).
a. women from different church backgrounds, that is, Mainline churches, African Independent Churches, and evangelical/pentecostal churches
b. How and why they became leaders and their experiences in church and society
c. models of gender empowerment that emerge from the studies.
Collected fieldwork data , therefore, sought to analyse stories of Batswana women in church leadership in order to identify strategies employed to assume church leadership. The conclusion maps out several strategies used by women to subvert gender-based exclusions , such as the use of an oral canon, instead of relying on the written word.
Literature. Literature. Folklore
| The exegetical perspective “Children in the Bible” is dealing with the concepts of childhood in biblical texts, asking for example: How are children conceived in different texts. What is their status in family, society and church? What is their relation to God? What is the metaphoric use of childhood in biblical soteriology? What is the function and meaning of calling adult persons “children” (of God, or of the Apostle)?
| The contextual perspective “African children of today and the Bible” is dealing with the different life settings African children find themselves in and how the Bible is present in these life settings. Here the questions for example are: What is the status of children in family and society? How are traditional concepts of childhood changing under the conditions of poverty, HIV/AIDS and violence? How are the ideas and ideals of childhood influenced by the Bible? What is the role of the Bible in child-education? Can children’s rights be established with help of the Bible?
This volume of BiAS 17 is collecting the papers presented at the 2012 BiAS meeting in Gaborone, Botswana, with some additional contributions.