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African Spirituality
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Author : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
language : en
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Release Date : 2000
African Spirituality written by Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona and has been published by Herder & Herder this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Religion categories.
As Africa moves into the 21st century it faces new spiritual, social, and economic challenges.
African Spirituality Politics And Knowledge Systems
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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-10
African Spirituality Politics And Knowledge Systems written by Toyin Falola and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Religion categories.
Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), this book shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa. "Sacred words” are taken to mean holy texts as in divination, the Quran and the Bible. Toyin Falola evaluates how religious leaders engage with sacred words, both orals and texts, engendering practices that reveal the expression of religious beliefs, the impact of those beliefs, and the knowledge contained in them. Attention is given to the key ideas in the words chosen by religious leaders, and how they form a continuous knowledge system, impacting the politics of managing society and people.
How God Became African
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Author : Gerrie ter Haar
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2009-08-20
How God Became African written by Gerrie ter Haar and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-20 with Religion categories.
While African Christianity has wholeheartedly appropriated the symbols, scriptures, and traditions of historic Christianity elsewhere, it has also built on the rich history of the continent's indigenous spiritual beliefs.
Orishas An Introduction To African Spirituality And Yoruba Religion
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Author : Clara Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Creek Ridge Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-14
Orishas An Introduction To African Spirituality And Yoruba Religion written by Clara Robinson and has been published by Creek Ridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-14 with Religion categories.
Learn about the Yoruba people of Africa, Gods and the different Orishas The belief system of the Yoruba people, which may have originated millions of years ago in Nigeria, is regarded as one of the oldest religions in the world. It has since gained followers from all over the world, from the Caribbean to North America, and it’s easy to see why. Its oral interpretations have piqued the interest of many, ranging from majestic tales of the Orishas to life-changing teachings of reincarnation. And, while it has been modified or intertwined with other world religions everywhere else, this high form of spirituality is still practiced in its original form in Africa.
What Is Not Sacred
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Author : Magesa Laurenti
language : en
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 2014-04-10
What Is Not Sacred written by Magesa Laurenti and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Religion categories.
"It is not for you to call profane what God counts clean."
Did Christianity replace traditional African religion with the arrival of European missionaries in past centuries? Or did sub-Saharan African cultures persist in maintaining their religious worldviews even after accepting the salvific message of Christianity? In this compelling book, Laurenti Magesa argues that despite missionary Christiaity's refusal to acknowledge the worth of traditional African religious culture. the incarnational spirituality of those cultures remains vibrant and visible today, and has much to offer and teach other cultures, both Christian and not.
Encyclopedia Of African Religion
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Author : Molefi Kete Asante
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2009
Encyclopedia Of African Religion written by Molefi Kete Asante and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Literary Expressions Of African Spirituality
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Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-04-11
Literary Expressions Of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
The Way Of The Elders
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Author : Adama Doumbia
language : en
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Release Date : 2004
The Way Of The Elders written by Adama Doumbia and has been published by Llewellyn Worldwide this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Readers catch a rare glimpse of West African spirituality in "The Way of the Elders," co-authored by a West African native raised in the Mande tradition. This spiritual guidebook explores offerings, charms, herbal healing, shamans, the importance of wildlife, and the four elements of nature.
African Traditions In The Study Of Religion In Africa
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Author : Dr Afe Adogame
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-06-28
African Traditions In The Study Of Religion In Africa written by Dr Afe Adogame and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-28 with Religion categories.
The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. The book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Religions; Indigenous Thought and Spirituality; and Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa. This book is to his honour and marks his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.
African Spirituality
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Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-03-24
African Spirituality written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-24 with Religion categories.
Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality. Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life. As a way of living, African spirituality begins when an individual becomes morally and ethically responsible for one’s own actions while engaged on an ethical path (Ɔbra Bↄ) in pursuance of one’s unique career endeavor (Nkrabea). Though an individual quest, society is, however, the arbiter of one’s ethical and moral life, when society confers on the person adjudged a success the stage title of Nana. At old age, Ɔbra Bↄ ends as an active endeavor. However, as repositories of wisdom, senior elders continue to inculcate in succeeding generations the principles, art, and mastery of ideal life (Ɔbra pa). Then upon death, senior elders are transformed into deities, bequeathing to living descendants names worthy of evocation and worship. Indeed, this book is the first study of its kind to draw on the experiences of an entire people, their psychological dispositions and effects on the Akan during adulthood. Thus, this book brings a unique perspective to the study of spirituality, religion, developmental psychological theory, what it means to achieve perfection as an elder on earth, and upon death join the esteemed company of the Nananom Nsamanfo (Ancestors).