Blessing Ngobeni

The baby blessings performed by Mormon church elders were among the very first rituals adopted by the church. While Joseph Smith revealed no explicit details of this ritual beyond ...

Abstract Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband’s funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was...

Through an analysis of historical and contemporary literature, Visions of Womanhood in Contemporary African Literature argues that African women were not relegated to the backgroun...

Abstract In The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats, Blessing-Miles Tendi argues that the 2017 military coup that ousted long-time Zimbabwean pr...

Chapter 5 focuses on female readings of the fleshly connection between Christ and his mother, Mary. For Aemilia Lanyer and Dorothy Leigh, Mary’s material labour had spiritual conse...

This chapter examines expressions of commands (imperatives) in Wolaitta and the ways in which the imperative is distinguished from statements and questions. Although each sentence ...

Set against an ethical-theological-philosophical framework of the role of love in the Abrahamic tradition (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), The Ethics of Hospitality highlights t...