Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context
In Africa, the whole are religious and the dead are believed to be actively involved in the daily affairs of the people. Such a worldview, in which the Sacred Other, the living and the (living) dead formed an integral whole, can also be observed at critical points in Naomi’s life: when Naomi bid fa...
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Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2016-12-01
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Series: | Acta Theologica |
Online Access: | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2787 |
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