Hindu Gods In West Africa
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Hindu Gods In West Africa
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Author : Albert Wuaku
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-07-11
Hindu Gods In West Africa written by Albert Wuaku and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with Religion categories.
In Hindu Gods in West Africa, Wuaku offers an account of the histories, beliefs and practices of the Hindu Monastery of Africa and the Radha Govinda Temple, two Hindu Temples in Ghana. Using historical material and data from his field work in southern Ghana, Wuaku shows how these two Hindu Temples build their traditions on popular Ghanaian religious notions about the powerful magicality of India's Hindu gods. He explores how Ghanaian soldiers who served in the colonial armies in India, Sri Lanka, and Burma during World War II, Bollywood films, and local magicians, have contributed to the production and the spreading of these cultural ideas. He argues that while Ghanaian worshippers appropriated and deployed the alien Hindu religious world through their own cultural ideas, as they engage Hindu beliefs and rituals in negotiating challenges their own worldviews would change considerably.
A Southern African Guide To World Religions
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Author : John W. De Gruchy
language : en
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
Release Date : 1991
A Southern African Guide To World Religions written by John W. De Gruchy and has been published by David Philip Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Religion categories.
Hindu Gods
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Author : hindu gods
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-11
Hindu Gods written by hindu gods and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with categories.
Vodun
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Author : Monique Joiner Siedlak
language : en
Publisher: Oshun Publications, LLC
Release Date : 2021-05-14
Vodun written by Monique Joiner Siedlak and has been published by Oshun Publications, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-14 with Religion categories.
Understanding West African Vodun begins with knowledge. West African Vodun explores and explains this often-misunderstood religion. It invites readers to open their eyes and their minds to what Vodun is, where and why began, and how it’s practiced. You may think you know everything you need to know because you’ve seen Hollywood’s interpretation of these spiritual practices, but this book proves those theories, misconceptions, artistic licenses, and theories wrong. Inside, you’ll discover: Vodun’s early days and how it plays a pivotal role in how it’s practiced now How and why it’s been mis-characterized How to practice it properly Who the deities are and why they’re honored Who the Priestesses are and why they are held to such esteem And more! Finally learn how Vodun, Hindu, Shango, Jesus and the Buddha are far more alike than you may think and understand what role slavery and slaves play in this religion and why it should matter to you.
Tongnaab
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Author : Jean Marie Allman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Tongnaab written by Jean Marie Allman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history--the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
The Princeton Companion To Atlantic History
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Author : Joseph C. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-18
The Princeton Companion To Atlantic History written by Joseph C. Miller and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-18 with Reference categories.
The first encyclopedic reference to Atlantic history Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history—through maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. This book, the first encyclopedic reference work on Atlantic history, takes an integrated, multicontinental approach that emphasizes the dynamics of change and the perspectives and motivations of the peoples who made it happen. The entries—all specially commissioned for this volume from an international team of leading scholars—synthesize the latest scholarship on central themes, including economics, migration, politics, war, technologies and science, the physical environment, and culture. Part one features five major essays that trace the changes distinctive to each chronological phase of Atlantic history. Part two includes more than 125 entries on key topics, from the seemingly familiar viewed in unfamiliar and provocative ways (the Seven Years' War, trading companies) to less conventional subjects (family networks, canon law, utopias). This is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and scholars in a range of fields, from early American, African, Latin American, and European history to the histories of economics, religion, and science. The first encyclopedic reference on Atlantic history Features five major essays and more than 125 alphabetical entries Provides essential context on major areas of change: Economies (for example, the slave trade, marine resources, commodities, specie, trading companies) Populations (emigrations, Native American removals, blended communities) Politics and law (the law of nations, royal liberties, paramount chiefdoms, independence struggles in Haiti, the Hispanic Americas, the United States, and France) Military actions (the African and Napoleonic wars, the Seven Years' War, wars of conquest) Technologies and science (cartography, nautical science, geography, healing practices) The physical environment (climate and weather, forest resources, agricultural production, food and diets, disease) Cultures and communities (captivity narratives, religions and religious practices) Includes original contributions from Sven Beckert, Holly Brewer, Peter A. Coclanis, Seymour Drescher, Eliga H. Gould, David S. Jones, Wim Klooster, Mark Peterson, Steven Pincus, Richard Price and Sophia Rosenfeld, and many more Contains illustrations, maps, and bibliographies
And The Birds Began To Sing
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-06-08
And The Birds Began To Sing written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking as its starting-point the ambiguous heritage left by the British Empire to its former colonies, dominions and possessions, And the Birds Began to Sing marks a new departure in the interdisciplinary study of religion and literature. Gathered under the rubric Christianity and Colonialism, essays on Brian Moore. Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood and Marian Engel, Thomas King, Les A. Murray, David Malouf, Mudrooroo and Philip McLaren, R.A.K. Mason, Maurice Gee, Keri Hulme, Epeli Hau'ofa, J.M. Coetzee, Christopher Okigbo, Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Ngugi wa Thiong'o explore literary portrayals of the effects of British Christianity upon settler and native cultures in Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, and the Africas. These essays share a sense of the dominant presence of Christianity as an inherited system of religious thought and practice to be adapted to changing post-colonial conditions or to be resisted as the lingering ideology of colonial times. In the second section of the collection, Empire and World Religions, essays on Paule Marshall and George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Olive Senior and Caribbean poetry, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Bharati Mukherjee interrogate literature exploring relations between the scions of British imperialism and religious traditions other than Christianity. Expressly concerned with literary embodiments of belief-systems in post-colonial cultures (particularly West African religions in the Caribbean and Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent), these essays also share a sense of Christianity as the pervasive presence of an ideological rhetoric among the economic, social and political dimensions of imperialism. In a polemical Afterword, the editor argues that modes of reading religion and literature in post-colonial cultures are characterised by a theodical preoccupation with a praxis of equity.
Library Of Congress Subject Headings
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Author : Library of Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Library Of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Subject headings, Library of Congress categories.
Music Of The Sirens
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Author : Linda Austern
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-21
Music Of The Sirens written by Linda Austern and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-21 with Music categories.
Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.
Library Of Congress Subject Headings
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Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Library Of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Subject headings, Library of Congress categories.