Religion, Disability, and Sustainable Development in Africa - Ohajunwa, Chioma; Dube, Kudakwashe ?AK?; Chitando, Ezra; (ed.) - Prospero Internet Bookshop
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Religion, Disability, and Sustainable Development in Africa

 
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Short description:

This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Overall, the book invites researchers to consider how African religious, theological, and philosophical ideas can help towards the inclusion of people with disabilities in the 2030 development agenda in Africa.

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This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa, and what this means in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.


The importance of meeting the needs of people with disabilities is highlighted specifically in several Sustainable Development Goals as well as being emphasised as a cross-cutting issue across all the goals. Over 1 billion people are estimated to be living with disabilities and 80% of this population live in the Global South, many within Africa. This book argues that within this context, religion must be considered, as people with disabilities often turn to religion for solace in confronting the daily struggles and pains that they can face. Drawing on multiple disciplinary lenses, this book reflects on how traditional/indigenous, Abrahamic, and other African minority religions and philosophies interact with disability, and how this relates to the sustainable development goals. The book demonstrates how religions in Africa conceptualize, imagine, or re-imagine disability in the context of key themes such as gender, ecological justice, health, poverty, education, employment, entrepreneurship, and migration.


Overall, the book invites researchers from across the social sciences to consider how African religious, theological, and philosophical ideas can help towards the inclusion of people with disabilities in the 2030 development agenda in Africa.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Religion, Disability and Sustainable Development in Africa  SDGs, Disability and Religion In the context of Poverty and socio-cultural factors  2. Positive Perspectives on Disability in the Old Testament: Pathways to Breaking the Disability-Poverty Nexus and Leaving No-One Behind in Africa?s Quest to Achieve Sustainable Development  3. Disentangling Disability in Africa: A Panoramic view from critical disability studies on Religion, Disability and Poverty in Africa  4. The African Network for Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) on its quest to be a Regional Disability Network guided by African wisdom  5. Socio-Cultural Perspective on Disability as a Barrier to Sustainable Development in Africa  SDGs, Disability and Religion in the context of health and wellbeing  6. Exploring the intersection of disability and religion in the context of Covid-19 and sustainable development in Africa  7. Understanding Epilepsy in The Context of African Indigenous Religions  8. Care Development: Botho Ethics, Ageing and Disability  9. Sustainable Development Goal Achievements for People With Disabilities In Africa: Role Of Christian-Muslim Religions In Tanzania  SDGs, Disability and Religion in the context of the disciplines  10. An examination of the relationship between disability and the law and religion: The Zimbabwean Disability Practice  11. Eco-Justice and Disability Inclusion in Lusaka, Zambia: Towards an African Women?s Theology of Disability  12. Religion, Disability and Education in Africa: Perspectives from Uganda  13. The Interplay of South African Indigenous Religions, Disability and Sustainable Development Goals: Reconceptualizing Disability in Inclusive Education  SDGs, Disability and Religion in the context of Gender  14. Disability, Gender-based violence and Development in Africa: The Case of Eswatini  15. Women with Disability?s Access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Well-being in Nairobi, Kenya: Towards a Theology of Belonging  16. Transformative Work of Pentecostal Groups in Addressing Gender-Based Violence against People Living with Disability in Nigeria  17. Obstetric Fistula - A disability that affects the health and well-being of women: Reflections from the Malawian Context