Isabel Mukonyora, Ph.D.

Western Kentucky University

Expertise

Early and Modern Christian Thought
Old and New African Religions
Women, Religion and Ecology

Courses/Seminars

Introduction to Religion/Early Christian Thought/Modern Christian Thought/Christianity in Africa/Women and Religion/Creation, Desturction and Hope (EcologySeminar)/Postcolonial Christianity.

Honors & Awards

Marquis, Who is Who of American Women 2008
WKU Summer Research Scholarship 2009
WKU Regular Faculty Scholar 2006/7, Western Scholar Fall 2006; Junior Scholarship Award 2004/5
Carter G Woodson Postdoctoral Fellow 2001-2002 at University of Virginia
"O" Visa - US Immigration and Justice Department 2002
Senior Fulbright Scholar 2000-2001 at University of Virignia
British Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford, England 1992-1995

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Women of the Diaspora Within: the Masowe Apostles

Isabel Mukonyora

Abstract

This paper argues for the development of a multi-dimensional concept of the "diaspora" to encompass experiences of reality in more recent histories of conflict. It is shown how a specifically African quest for a redemption through journeying and enacting rituals in peripheral places makes the "diaspora" a word more complex than traditional scholarship on the African Diaspora suggests. Masowe Apostles confront us with ways of thinking and acting in religious communities where diaspora means more than slaves being scattered abroad; but also the fragmentation of cultures, displacement, marginality and oppression in more recent histories of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.

Suggested Citation

Isabel Mukonyora. "Women of the Diaspora Within: the Masowe Apostles" Women and Religion in African Diaspora, University of Princeton WRAD Project, Johns Hopkins Press (2006 ed). Ed. Marie Griffiths and Barbara Savage. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 58-80.

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