Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Language, Literature and Religion

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: New Methods and New Meanings
	Introduction
	New Methods and New Meanings
	Chapter Outline
	References
Chapter 2: The Interface of Intertextuality and Cognitive Linguistics in Reading Literary Discourse: Interdisciplinary Sensibilities in Contemporary Zimbabwean Novel
	Introduction
	Intertextuality and Cognitive Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Terrain
	NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Interpretive Site
	Poetic Intertextuality and a Maze of Creative Texts in the Novel, Glory
	Historical Wounds and the Scandals of Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe
	Intertextuality and the Polemics of Inter-religious Discourses in the Novel, Glory
	Gender Discourses: We Need New Names and the Philosophy of Mother Is Supreme
	Conclusion: Towards New Heuristic Flights and Diverse Epistemological Locations
	References
Chapter 3: Rupturing the Traditional Thought in Search of Novel Heuristic Voyages in New Testament Studies: New Reflections on Narratological Methodology
	Introduction
	Theoretical Framework: Narrative Criticism
	Overturning Traditional Methodologies for New Pathways
	Tenets of Historical-Critical Method
	The Development of the Historical-Critical Method
	Heuristic Narratological Methodologies in the New Testament Studies
	Reflections
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Postcolonial African Feminist Research Agenda: African Women Theologians’ Search for Liberating Paradigms in Oral and Written Religious and Cultural Texts
	Introduction
	The Essence of African Feminist Theology
	African Women’s Theology and Liberation: Case Studies
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Discipline, Decolonisation and Agency
	Introduction
	Statement of the Problem
	Research Questions
	Research Method
	Conceptualising Agency
	Conceptualising Decolonisation
	Conceptualising Discipline
	Violent Crimes and Violent Students: Do We Teach Angels or Monsters?
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: (Re)thinking and (Re)theorising ‘Multi’ and Its Futures in Academic Discourse Studies
	Introduction
	Research Trends in Academia
	Data and Method
	‘Multi’ in Academic Discourse
	Conclusion and Recommendations
	References
Chapter 7: ‘Collective Intelligence’ a Precursor for Multidisciplinary Research in Africa: An Appreciative Inquiry Perspective
	Introduction
	Appreciative Inquiry Perspective Versus the Traditional System
	Knowledge Production Systems and Collective Intelligence in Africa
	Collective Intelligence as an Epistemological Methodology in Africa
	Considerations for Collective Methodology
		Frameworks
		Ethics
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Shifting Methodological Pathways in New Testament Studies and Linguistics: A Stylistic Paradigm
	Introduction
	Stylistics and Its Relevance to New Testament Studies
	Stylisations and Semantic Reading of Acts 10:9–16
	Semantic Dissonance and Sense-Making as a Troubled Terrain
	The Shift to Multi-disciplinarity and Multi-perspectivality in New Testament Studies
	In Closing
	References
Chapter 9: Decentring Research in Universities in Africa
	Introduction
	Revisiting Ontological Research Assumptions Among Universities in Africa
	Epistemological Considerations in African Research
	Ethical Issues in African Higher Education Research
	Conclusion: Towards Authentic Research
	References
Chapter 10: What Has Jerusalem to Do with Athens? Deflecting Traditional Disciplinary Boundaries in Biblical Studies
	Introduction
	Defining Key Terms
	History of Biblical Studies
	Deflecting Traditional Boundaries in Biblical Studies
	Conclusion and Recommendations
	References
Chapter 11: Critiquing the Shona Novel in an Interdisciplinary Manner Through the Social Historical Approach
	Introduction
	The Shona Novel
	Literary Theory
	Critiquing the Shona Novel Through the Socio-historical Approach
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: Breaking Boundaries: Current Research Trends in Zimbabwean Linguistics—A Case of the University of Zimbabwe
	Introduction
	Research Methodology
	Research Methods
	Data Presentation and Analysis
	Discussion (The Inter-discipline Endeavour)
	Emergent Frontiers
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 13: Evolution of Multi-disciplinary Philosophies of Method: Colonial Antecedents and Post-colonial Paradigm Shifts
	Introduction
	Fundamental Disciplinary-Related Concepts Clarified
	Knowledge Production and the Emergency Epistemic Colonialism in Europe
	Positivism and the Emergency of Epistemological Authoritarianism
	Radical Empiricism and the Orthodox Consensus in the Social Sciences
	Positivism and the Inculcation of a Mono-perspective in Philosophy, Law and Economics
	David Hume and the Rejection of the Mono-disciplinary Perspectiviality of the Positivistic Natural Sciences
	Peter Winch and the Restoration of Multi-disciplinarity in the Social Sciences
	From Epistemological Colonialism to Territorial Imperialism
	Post-coloniality and the Restoration of Multi-disciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Epistemic Frameworks
	Post-colonial Gender Criticisms of Western Epistemic Imperialism
	Feminist Post-colonialism and the Bifurcation of the Colonial Project
	Decoloniality as a Precursor of Multi-disciplinary Research Paradigms in the Post-independent South
	Positivistic Authoritarianism and the Inculcation of Mono-perspectivsm in Post-independent African States
	Neo-liberal Epistemic Injustice and Methodological Epistemicide Against Africans
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 14: New Directions in Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production
	Introduction
	Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production
	References
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