• From your seat in Heaven, hear our prayer: Prayer in the Nomiya Church. 

  Maseno, Loreen (2024-07-01)

  Prayer is the act of communication by humans with God and beings in the transcendent realm. The Nomiya Church (NC) is the oldest African Independent Church in Kenya. It was founded by Johana Owalo who saw the Arabs, the ...
• African Women, Covid-19, Grounded theology and the adoption of a religious virtual space in CITAM Ngong Church and Nomiya Luo Church in Kenya. 

  Maseno, Loreen; Chirongoma, Sophia (Pharos Journal of Theology, 2024-08-01)

  The Republic of Kenya Ministry of Health update on Corona Virus on 13th February 2020 insisted that persons were to avoid close contact with people suffering from acute respiratory infections. A ban was imposed on public ...
• Introduction: Themes in African Pentecostalism 

  Chitando, Ezra; Togarasei, Lovemore; Maseno, Loreen (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024-10-29)

  This chapter provides the background to the volume. The volume, located within the larger discourse of the contribution by African scholars to the study of African Pentecostalism, brings to the fore some of the key themes ...
• The Eucharist in the Time of COVID-19: Adaptations and Transformations in Christ Is The Answer Ministries (CITAM) Church in Kenya 

  Maseno, Loreen (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024-10-29)

  COVID-19 changed the religious landscape across many regions of the world. In Kenya, public gatherings were prohibited at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Further into the pandemic, face-to-face religious services ...
• 9 The Catholic Church and Psychosocial Support for Survivors of Violent Conflicts in Kenya’s North Rift 

  Kilonzo, Mbulu.Susan (University of Bamberg Press, 2024-07-22)

  Violent ethnic conflicts have devastating consequences on individuals, families, and communities. The physical, emotional, and psychological trauma that survivors of such conflicts experience can leave lasting scars that ...
• Anne Kubai Weaving the Tapestry of Religion and Post-Conflict Social Construction for the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians 

  Osuka, Monika; Maseno, Loreen (University of Bamberg Press, 2024-03-28)

  Anne Kubai considered one of the Matriarchs of the Circle of concerned African Women Theologians in Africa. She is a Kenyan by origin and has contributed to the scholarly journey of the circle over the years. This chapter ...
• Mapping East and Central African Feminist Theologies 

  Maseno, Loreen (University of Bamberg Press, 2024)

  The Circle of concerned African women theologians (hereafter the Circle) was founded on the 25th September 1989 in Accra, Ghana. The Circle is a contemporary network of women from across Africa, some of whom live outside ...
• Queen of Sheba: East and Central African Women’s Theologies of Liberation (Circle Jubilee Volume 2) 

  Maseno, Loreen; Mombo, Esther; Muke, Nagaju; Kahindo, Veronica (University of Bamberg Press, 2024-03-18)

  BiAS 40, named after a legendary biblical woman, the Queen of Sheba, is celebrating the wisdom of pioneers of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians'(CIRCLE). This volume rose within the context of producing ...
• 9| African Women Befriending Jesus in Teresia Hinga’s Ecclesia 

  Maseno, Loreen (University of Bamberg Press, 2024-03-18)

  Teresia Mbari Hinga, is a Kenyan and a professor of Religious Studies in USA, specializing in African religions, Feminist theologies, Religion and contemporary moral issues. She holds a Doctorate from the University of ...
• Religion, Climate Change, and Food Security in Africa 

  Maseno, Loreen; Chitando, Ezra (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024-03-30)

  There is a growing realization that the earth is clearly warming at a worrying pace. Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicates that climate change is an existential crisis, while Goal 2 seeks to achieve ...
• Globalization, Islamic Fundamentalism and Violence Through the Youth in Kenya 

  Kilonzo, Susan Mbulu (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024-05-07)

  Different scholars define globalization in disparate ways, which has resulted in two broad perspectives. There are those who view globalization as a positive phenomenon, a welcome integration of human societies across the ...
• Exploring the tapestry of adolescent alcohol consumption: a socio-ecological perspective from Kakamega county, Kenya 

  Korir, John Kipng'etich; Otengah, Wilson AP; Kilonzo, Susan Mbulu; Shivachi, Taji I; Omollo, Jonathan; Lang’at, Pauline Chemutai (International Research Journal of Rongo University, 2024-07-12)

  This paper explores adolescent alcohol consumption in Kakamega County, Kenya, employing a socio-ecological perspective rooted in Bronfenbrenner's theory. The study, a cross-sectional survey, combines qualitative and ...
• Influence of community-level factors on alcohol consumption among adolescents in secondary schools in Kakamega county, Kenya 

  Korir, John Kipng'etich; Otengah, Wilson AP; Kilonzo, Susan Mbulu; Shivachi, Taji I; Langat, Pauline Chemutai (International Research Journal of Rongo University, 2024-07-12)

  The alcohol abuse issue in Kenya poses significant challenges to health, the economy, and national security, particularly in the Western region where there is the highest prevalence of alcohol consumption among adolescents ...
• Ubuntu, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa: Reflections on the Promises and Challenges of a Popular Concept 

  Chitando, Ezra; Kilonzo, M.Susan (Springer International Publishing, 2023-10-18)

  Faced with the constant criticism that “nothing good can come out of Africa,” many African scholars and peace activists, as well those from other parts of the world, have identified Ubuntu and presented it as one of Africa’s ...
• Alternative Media and Ethnic Politics in Kenya 

  Kilonzo, Susan M; Muhoma, Catherine (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2023-08-23)

  The history of the use of alternative media in Kenya’s politics shows evidence that it was in use in 2007, when the country came into the brink of a genocide; and, prominently in use, in the recent 2022 general elections. ...
• Introduction: Religion and Inequality in Africa 

  Chitando, Ezra; Maseno, Loreen; Tarusarira, Joram (Bloomsbury, 2023-01-12)
• 10 Securitization of COVID-19 and the Imagination of Post-COVID-19 Burial Ceremonies in Kenya and Zimbabwe 

  Maseno, Loreen; Sibanda, Fortune (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  The years 2020 and 2021 will go down in history as the most tragic period in the second decade of the new millennium as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in death and untold suffering the world over (Sibanda ...
• 3 Sitting on a Grave 

  Maseno, Loreen (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  COVID-19 in Kenya necessitated an enforcement of Ministry of Health (MOH) burial guidelines. These were met with resistance at various levels, even as the State demanded that these guidelines be unilaterally enforced. After ...
• Research Methods for Public Policy 

  Mbula, Susan Kilonzo, Ayobami Ojebode (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2022)

  As implied by the topic, this chapter focuses on research methods applied or applicable in public policy research. Though the overriding focus is on specifc research methods, we deemed it necessary to preface these ...
• Sero-Prevalence and Molecular Analysis of Brucellosis in Livestock Keepers and Domestic Ruminants in Baringo County, Kenya 

  eter N Lokamar, Moses A Kutwah, Elly O Munde, Dickens Oloo, Harrysone Atieli, Sussy Gumo, James M Akoko, Collins Ouma (Research square, 2022)

  Brucellosis is widely distributed in more than 170 countries around the world, where it poses a huge threat to animal husbandry and human health. Brucellosis is a worldwide re-emerging zoonotic disease that poses serious ...

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