{"product_id":"the-african-church-and-covid-19-human-security-the-church-and-society-in-kenya-9781793650986","title":"The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the book, contributors explore how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragilities of African society as well as the weaknesses in the Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The African Church and COVID-19 analyzes the question of how the Church in Kenya should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address the vulnerabilities of socio-economic and political structures in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican scholars cannot outsource the responsibility of reflecting on the African condition to outsiders, no matter how well-meaning those outsiders might be. Contributors to this volume have taken this challenge seriously, investing resources in clarifying the role of the Church in Africa in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume bears testimony to the importance of contextual theologies, as the contributors have demonstrated how the Church has sought to be visible on the frontlines in responding to one of the most demanding pandemics of our time. It is a timely, well researched, and balanced publication.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ezra Chitando, University of Zimbabwe and World Council of Churches, Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book makes an excellent articulation of socio-ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the prophetic role of the church in Africa in addressing the pandemic. This ground-breaking book captures new ways of doing theology and ministering to the people of God in times of pandemic. While the world concentrates on medical care and healing of persons affected by the pandemic, it is equally important, as demonstrated by this book, to draw attention to the pains of isolation, poverty, unemployment, conflicts, human rights abuse, and political violence. This edited volume is an important book for students and lecturers in sociology, peace studies, religion, and political science.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Elias O. Opongo, Centre for Research, Training and Publications, Hekima University College, Nairobi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the African context, this book offers a lucid and multidisciplinary insight of how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the religious and social life through human security lenses. This book illuminates and re-imagines through a whole-of-society approach how the Church in Africa is and ought to be responding to the ravages of the on(going) health epidemic. The book reflects and articulates the everyday realities brought by the pandemic but also takes a problem-solving perspective. This book would be useful for African theologians, historians, educators, and development practitioners. \u003c\/p\u003e -- John Mwangi, St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book covers a wide array of issues related to the Christian community’s response to the widely disruptive COVID-19 pandemic. The volume’s multidisciplinary approach to the problem at hand is its most useful contribution. The book shows the fruits of collaborative engagement between the various university disciplines. Indeed, we need to make room for the other voice, and we need a trialogue between the church, the society, and the academy. The book also goes beyond mere description of the problem at hand to a carefully crafted prescription of remedies to it. Pastors, scholars, theologians, students, and Christian leaders will find this resource a gem to behold. I highly recommend it without reservation.\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Tarus, Executive Director, Association for Christian Theological Education in Africa (ACTEA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Imagining of a Post-COVID-19 Church in Africa \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Munyao \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Understanding COVID-19 Disease and the Church in Africa: Infections, Containment, and Vaccines \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalia Gitu and Peter Martin Gitu \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: ‘Can these Bones Live?’: African Christianity and Human Security in Post-Covid-19 Era \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChammah J. Kaunda \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Church and Food Security in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Call for Decolonializing the African Mind \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Muutuki \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Environmental Justice and the Church in Post-COVID-19 Era \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Durito \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Religious Diplomacy and Interstate Relations During COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Interfaith Engagements in Mediating for Peace and Harmony in the East African Region \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Munyao and Maureen Muturi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Church and Humanitarian Crisis in The Post-Covid-19 Era \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvia Tuikong \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Church, Family, and Gender-Based Violence in the Post-COVID-19 Era \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Musembi, Joseph Muutuki, and Josephine Munyao \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Assessing the Preparedness of the Church in Handling Mental Health Cases in Society in the Post-COVID-19 Period \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Mudegu \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Socioeconomic Vulnerability of Households: An Assessment of Poverty Eradication Strategies Employed by Christian Chapel, Kenya \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Musembi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Education in Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Jepkemei and Martin Munyao \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: The Church Will Provide: The Church and Public Education in Kenya \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWandia Njoya \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Church, COVID-19, and Gender-Based Violence in Kenya: Strategies for Intervention by the Post-COVID Church \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvia Muriuki\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042694791511,"sku":"9781793650986","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793650986.jpg?v=1750955216","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-african-church-and-covid-19-human-security-the-church-and-society-in-kenya-9781793650986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}