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This study is a reflection on polygamous marriage and its challenge to the Anglican Church of Tanzania- Diocese of Mara (ACT-DM). The study calls for the contextualization of the Gospel of Christ if the church is serious with the propagation of the Gospel to the Mara people. The term contextualization refers to a total process designed to translate into concrete reality the indigenisation as well as the adoption of the church to African indigenous thought and culture. The research was set on the problem statement, "Is there any theological justification for the Anglican Church's condemnation of polygamous marriage?" The study was set on the premise that even though there is a need for the Church to show love to every one- including the polygamists, there is need to unveil the controversy that the ACT-DM has grappled with concerning the place of the polygamist in the Church. Should they continue to be discriminated against in terms of being denied the sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Eucharist? Should they be allowed to lead the Anglican Church of Mara Diocese? What is the way forward? In arriving at the research findings, the study employed two methods. One was to collect oral accounts on the practice of polygamy in the Mara societies and the Church. The second one was collecting the written information as found in church minutes, reports, letters, books, articles and periodicals. The research revealed that even though polygamy is a dying institution, in Mara, people are just abandoning it slowly without proper teachings. That shows that there is a danger of its resurrection if the Church doesn't engage in a teaching ministry on this issue so as to contain it. The other findings of the research are that, even if it is an African cultural practice, it is already overtaken by time and cannot be an effective substitute to barrenness or childlessness as was the case in the traditional African societies because there are other better remedies such as child adoption. The research findings also showed that the Church, despite having a theological justification for condemning it, has a responsibility, as a steward of God's creation to offer pastoral roles to the polygamists, their wives and their innocent children who are disciplined by the Church " because of somebody else's sins." The study consists of five chapters and conclusion. The first chapter gives an introduction by way of showing the major motivation for the study, which sets the tone of the whole work. The second chapter deals with the background information of the study of Christianity in Mara region of Tanzania. It also gives us a brief historical background of Christianity in Tanzania. The third chapter discusses the question on the Gospel and Culture thereby giving different schools of thought on the relationship of these two entities. The fourth chapter is about the practice of polygamy in the Anglican Church of Tanzania- Diocese of Mara, and its pastoral approach to the practice of polygamy which makes the chapter to be historically based on the oral as well as the written sources on the practice of polygamy. Chapter five is the critical analysis of polygamy which comprises of social and theological critiques of the various positions that are advanced for its continuation or suggestions as to why it should be abolished. The concluding chapter makes some recommendations and then draws the conclusion of the whole study. / Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-21T11:37:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Janaina Batista Gonzalez Reis.pdf: 1317588 bytes, checksum: 30de7861fcf2c6fca01d45964734709d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T11:37:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Janaina Batista Gonzalez Reis.pdf: 1317588 bytes, checksum: 30de7861fcf2c6fca01d45964734709d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-05 / This is a qualitative research with a case study designed on polyamory. Polyamory emerged in the 1990s as a new mode of loving relationship, a paradigmatic representation of contemporary love. Unrelated to a particular sexual identity, as a specific modality of non-monogamy, being a relationship orientation in which is believed the possibility and acceptance to love many people, maintaining multiple intimate relationships. This family arrangement is already present in many countries and in Brazil the latest survey in a social media group indicated 17,487 members interested in the topic. The instrument used was the semi-structured interview and narratives obtained, classified in three categories: Experiencing the quotidian, Experiencing the social, and Constructing gender relationships in the polyamory. The results showed some similarities with other conventional family arrangements such as: division of tasks, jealousy, hierarchy, gender issues and others. Conjugality and sexuality are peculiar to the researched family and follow established criteria in polyamorous arrangements. We suggest further studies on polyamorous families in our reality / Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa com delineamento de estudo de caso sobre o poliamor. O poliamor surgiu na década de 90 como uma nova modalidade de relacionamento amoroso, uma representação paradigmática do amor contemporâneo. Sem ligação com uma identidade sexual particular, como uma modalidade específica da não-monogamia, sendo uma orientação de relacionamento na qual se acredita ser possível e aceitável amar muitas pessoas e manter múltiplos relacionamentos íntimos. Este arranjo familiar já está presente em muitos países e no Brasil o último levantamento em um grupo de uma mídia social indicava 17.487 membros interessados no tema. O instrumento utilizado foi a entrevista semi-estruturada e as narrativas obtidas classificadas em três categorias: Vivenciando o cotidiano, Vivenciando o social, e Construindo as relações de genêro no poliamor. Os resultados mostraram algumas similaridades com os outros arranjos familiares mais convencionais, como: divisão de tarefas, ciúme, hierarquia, questões de genêro, entre outras. A conjugalidade e a sexualidade são peculiares da família pesquisada e seguem critéros estabelecidos nos arranjos poliamorosos. Sugerimos mais estudos sobre famílias poliamorosas na nossa realidade

"The 24th of July" is a fictional novel set in the present day. The story centers around Michelle, an eighteen year old girl from Warm Springs, Idaho, who fears the sexual games she has played with her cousin Edna have tainted her for a Temple marriage. She meets Duke, a charismatic fundamentalist polygamist, who believes polygamy is part of the plan for eternal salvation as set down by the original doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the prophet Joseph Smith. Michelle sees Duke as her chance to put her relationship with Edna in the past and obtain the rewards waiting for her in the celestial heaven by marrying him and having babies. But life as a polygamist wife is more difficult than she anticipated and it is further complicated by the fact that she and Cheron, Duke's second wife, fall in love. When Duke discovers the nature of their relationship, both are forced into making choices that will change their entire way of life.

Four Muslim senior wives, 35 years and older, were interviewed about their experiences in a polygamous marriage. The Theory of Gender and Power was used to understand some of the emerging themes in the gendered relationships between men and women in polygamous relationships. Thematic content analysis revealed the overarching theme of power. The women expressed helplessness in the face of a practice that they consider objectionable on the one hand, but that they feel compelled to tolerate because their religion permits it. In order to cope with their pain there was a need to assign blame for their husband's remarriage. Blame was attributed to both internal and external causes. Senior wives equate polygamy with "infidelity" and therefore perceived it as an act of betrayal, Consequently, this led to feelings of anger, rejection, pain and jealousy, and subsequently the nonacceptance of the junior wife into the marital dyad. The women reported feelings of loss with regard to the marital relationship, such as loss of financial support, trust, self esteem, identity, dignity and sense of self. For these senior wives, polygamy resulted in loss of sexual exclusivity, shared intimacy and security, which was accompanied by feelings of humiliation and degradation. The women believed that polygamy resulted in straining the relationship between children and their fathers. Children were reported to have experienced emotional, behavioural and academic problems. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2004.

This thesis develops an account of non-domination as a principle of legitimacy that ought to govern both inter-group and intra-group relations in multicultural states. It applies this principle to the question of how political institutions should respond to claims for the accommodation of controversial minority practices, using the example of the polygamous community in Bountiful, British Columbia. In developing this account, the thesis engages with three bodies of theoretical literature – of multiculturalism, of political legitimacy, and of autonomy. In the dominant normative theories of multiculturalism, answers are centered on what the limits of toleration are, what it means to recognize a collective identity, or what group rights can be claimed and how group rights are balanced with individual rights. While not rejecting the importance of these issues in a pluralistic state, my approach de-centers them by subsuming them under the broader problem of what makes a political authority morally legitimate vis-à-vis particular collective - as well as abstract individual - subjects. I argue that the most promising response to this problem lies with the concept of non-domination, conceived as a foundational principle of political legitimacy for multicultural states. This principle both demands and checks a democratic method for determining specific forms of accommodation. In some cases the advancement of non-domination between groups conflicts with the advancement of non-domination within groups. In political theory this question is often taken up by feminist scholars concerned with the ‘paradox of multicultural vulnerability’ and, more generally, with the dilemma of how to identify and critique internalized oppression while promoting full respect for individual moral agency. Borrowing from these debates, I outline a conception of the relational moral autonomy of the person and argue that it forms a necessary component of a non-domination- based analysis. The conclusion of the thesis with respect to minority social practices is that specific claims should be determined on the basis of a democratic process aimed at uncovering whether and when, all things considered, the accommodation of that particular practice is consistent with non-domination both between and within groups. / Thesis (Ph.D, Political Studies) -- Queen's University, 2011-09-29 11:13:58.516

Thesis (M.A.) B.Y.U. College of Religion. / Bibliography: leaves 269-273.

Thesis (M. W. S.), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1998. / Bibliography: leaves [176]-182.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of History. / Electronic thesis. Also available in print ed.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Brigham Young University. Dept. of Philosophy Education, 1942. / Electronic thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231). Also available in print ed.