Ancestor Religion In Southern Africa
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Ancestor Religion In Southern Africa
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Author : H. Kuckertz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Ancestor Religion In Southern Africa written by H. Kuckertz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Africa, Southern categories.
Religion In Southern Africa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Religion In Southern Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Africa, Southern categories.
Ancestor Worship In Southern Africa
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Author : H. Kuckertz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Ancestor Worship In Southern Africa written by H. Kuckertz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Ancestor worship categories.
African Traditional Religion In South Africa
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Author : David Chidester
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1997-08-07
African Traditional Religion In South Africa written by David Chidester and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-07 with Religion categories.
In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.
Religions Of South Africa Routledge Revivals
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Author : David Chidester
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-27
Religions Of South Africa Routledge Revivals written by David Chidester and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-27 with Religion categories.
First published in 1992, this title explores the religious diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent narrative and providing the first comparative study and introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that the complex distinctive character of South African religious life has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid. With an overview of African traditional religion, Christian missions, and African innovations during the nineteenth century, this reissue will be of great value to students of religious studies, South African history, anthropology, sociology, and political studies.
On The Religious Sentiment Amongst The Tribes Of South Africa
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Author : Henry Callaway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
On The Religious Sentiment Amongst The Tribes Of South Africa written by Henry Callaway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Indigenous peoples categories.
African Religion Defined
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Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2012-07-10
African Religion Defined written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-10 with Religion categories.
African religion is ancestor worship; that is, funeral preparations, burial of the dead with ceremony and pomp, belief in eternal existence of souls of the dead as ancestors, periodic remembrance of ancestors, and belief that they influence the affairs of their living descendants. Whether called Akw?sidai, Homowo, Voodoo, Nyant?r (Aboakyir), CandomblZ, or Santeria in Africa or the African Diaspora, ancestor worship centers on the ancestors and deities. This makes it a tenably viable religion, because living descendants are genetically linked to their ancestors. The author, a traditional king and professor, studies the Akan in Ghana to demonstrate that ancestor worship is as pragmatic, systematic, theological, teleological, soteriological — with a highly trained clerical body and elders as mediators — and symbolic as any other religion in the world. Ancestor worship follows prescribed rites and rituals, formulas, precepts for ritual efficacy, and festivities of honor with music and dances to provoke ancestors and deities into joining in the celebration.
African Religions
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Author : Jacob K. Olupona
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
African Religions written by Jacob K. Olupona and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
African Traditional Religions
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Author : S. A. Thorpe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
African Traditional Religions written by S. A. Thorpe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Religion categories.
In an introduction to the variety of African traditional religions, rather than exploring each and every one, this book offers five examples which are believed to be broadly representative. Zulu and Shona systems are chosen to introduce the southern Bantu religions. Ancient hunting and gathering religious approches from the San of equatorial southern Africa and the Mbuti pygmies of the equatorial rain forest are included - they may have influenced the more structured Bantu systems. And, the complex, well-developed religious systems of West Africa are represented by inclusion of the Yoruba.
The Language Of Faith In Southern Africa Spirit World Power Community Holism
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Author : Hermen Kroesbergen
language : en
Publisher: AOSIS
Release Date : 2019-12-12
The Language Of Faith In Southern Africa Spirit World Power Community Holism written by Hermen Kroesbergen and has been published by AOSIS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Religion categories.
The aim of this book is to provide a way to do justice to an African language of faith. In systematic theology, anthropology and philosophy of religion, similar debates about how to interpret an African language of faith are ongoing. Trying to avoid the othering discourses of past generations, scholars are careful to take seriously what people in Africa say without portraying peoples beliefs as weird or backward. Yet, in their desperate attempts to avoid othering, these theologians, anthropologists and philosophers often painfully misconstrue the language of faith in Africa. Understanding the language of faith in Southern Africa is not an easy task. How should we take seriously the form of language that often seems so strange and different? I argue that, after African inculturation theology and black liberation theology, a better way to make sense of being a Christian in Southern Africa is to pay close attention to peoples language of faith. The way in which people speak of the spirit world or powers in Africa appears strange to outsiders, and the sense of community and the holistic worldview differentiates the African way of life from its Euro-American counterparts. When proper attention is paid to the use of concepts like spirit world, power, community and holism, language of faith in Southern Africa is neither as strange as it may seem, nor as romantic. By investigating these distinguishing concepts that colour language of faith in Southern Africa, this book contributes to future projects of both fellow theologians who try to construct a contemporary African theology and those who are interested in theology in Africa given the well-known southward shift of the centre of gravity of Christianity.