In this insightful study of local cultural idioms in Hwesaland, two themes dominate: Christianity and chieftaincy. David Maxwell builds upon the work of the Comaroffs, Paul Landau, and others who have studied the impact of Christian missionaries upon Southern African societies. Maxwell reconstructs the African roots of Christianity: how Africans appropriated the symbols, rituals, and ideas of Christianity to found an indigenous form of Christianity. Chiefs played a major role in this process of indigenisation. Far from being reactionary stooges in the service of the colonial or postcolonial state, Maxwell argues that chiefs were key defenders of local interests against the interventions of external agents. The author also questions the standard categories and divisions in the social sciences in the study of African societies and their histories. As such, this study will be of interest to all Africanists, not just those who focus on Southern Africa.

Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe

History

Maxwell, David

Africa

Praeger Pub Text

The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators--the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga--in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and how the Luba shaped missionary research.

Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)

University of Wisconsin Press

A guide to implementing procedures for staffing, finance, loss prevention, investigation, and information security.

Corporate Security Administration and Management

Business & Money

Kirk Barefoot, J.

Industries

Butterworth-Heinemann

Inclusive Marriage Services: A Wedding Sourcebook

As the country moves toward marriage equality for gays and lesbians, couples and pastors are in need of updated language for marriage services. This sourcebook not only provides inclusive marriage services, taking into account a variety of situations, but also provides guidance for couples and pastors to take into account for all couples. In addition, it includes prayers for a number of situations that happen around many weddings, such as rehearsal dinners, the wedding participants before worship, and the reception.
 Inclusive Marriage Services includes updated but traditional language carefully chosen, resembling historical marriages we are all familiar with, but improving some of the language.

Religion & Spirituality

Long, Kimberly Bracken

Christian Books & Bibles

Westminster/John Knox Press

Recent events in the United States have provoked not just a willingness to discuss issues of racism in this country but a desire to do something meaningful to confront it. Race in a Post-Obama America offers concerned Christians the chance to clarify terms and issues around racism and discern how to respond.
 The reader will learn the basic definitions and history around racism in the United States, be presented with current thoughts on institutional racism and what is to be done to end it, and learn about specific actions individuals and churches are taking. Designed for individual or group study, the book includes questions for reflection and discussion.

Race in a Post-Obama America: The Church Responds

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

As the country moves toward marriage equality for gays and lesbians, couples and pastors are in need of updated language for marriage services. This sourcebook not only provides inclusive marriage services, taking into account a variety of situations, but also provides guidance for couples and pastors to take into account for all couples. In addition, it includes prayers for a number of situations that happen around many weddings, such as rehearsal dinners, the wedding participants before worship, and the reception. Inclusive Marriage Services includes updated but traditional language carefully chosen, resembling historical marriages we are all familiar with, but improving some of the language.

Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People, 1870s -1990s (International African Library)

Focusing on the religion and politics of a remote chiefdom in Zimbabwe, this book describes how the Hwesa people adapted the Christianity that the missionaries brought to found their own popular Christianity, pitted against local notions of evil. It also examines the role of the chief,challenging the idea that they were no more than colonial stooges.

Edinburgh University Press

Private Security Law: Case Studies is uniquely designed for the special needs of private security practitioners, students, and instructors. Part One of the book encompasses negligence, intentional torts, agency contracts, alarms, and damages. Part Two covers authority of the private citizen, deprivation of rights, and entrapment. The factual cases presented in this book touch on the everyday duties of persons associated with the private security industry. Private Security Law: Case Studies provides a basic orientation to problems capable of inciting litigation. The information presented through case laws comes from cases chosen for their factual, realistic, and practical connection to the private security industry. This focused approach addresses specific problem areas of the industry and provides information necessary to a security manager to avert future loss.

Private Security Law: Case Studies

Follow the Airbus A380, the worlds largest airliner and newest "superjumbo" of the commercial aviation industry, from its birthplace in Toulouse to the first public appearance at the world-famous Paris Air Show and beyond. 
Go from the first ever Asia tour and first flights into Singapore, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, and Frankfurt to the many important testing processes. 
See the A380 MSN1 in Dubai for the Dubai Air Show to Asias largest show, Asian Aerospace. Experience the first ever arrival in North America for "deep freeze" winter testing at -45 degrees F, the hot deserts of Dubai and the high altitude and humidity of the first ever arrival in South America at Medellin, Colombia. 
From the amazing aerial displays, the testing that is helping make history to an exclusive VIP tour inside the A380, be a witness to aviation history. 
A380 specs: - Carries between 500 and 800 passengers in three classes - Upper-deck "social areas" include bars, boutiques, duty-free shops, and other amenities - 261-foot, 8-inch wingspan - Almost 240 feet long

Airbus A380: SuperJumbo on World Tour

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Zenith Press

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Books by Maxwell, David

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Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe

Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)

Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)

Corporate Security Administration and Management

Inclusive Marriage Services: A Wedding Sourcebook

Race in a Post-Obama America: The Church Responds

Inclusive Marriage Services: A Wedding Sourcebook

Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People, 1870s -1990s (International African Library)

Private Security Law: Case Studies

Airbus A380: SuperJumbo on World Tour