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Author : Frederic Ntedika Mvumbi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Philosophical Study of Religion in Africa written by Frederic Ntedika Mvumbi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435895914
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (959 download)
Download or read book African Religions & Philosophy written by John S. Mbiti and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "African Religions and Philosophy" is a systematic study of the attitudes of mind and belief that have evolved in the many societies of Africa. In this second edition, Dr Mbiti has updated his material to include the involvement of women in religion, and the potential unity to be found in what was once thought to be a mass of quite separate religions. Mbiti adds a new dimension to the understanding of the history, thinking, and life throughout the African continent. Religion is approached from an African point of view but is as accessible to readers who belong to non-African societies as it is to those who have grown up in African nations. Since its first publication, this book has become acknowledged as the standard work in the field of study, and it is essential reading for anyone concerned with African religion, history, philosophy, anthropology or general African studies.
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789402420661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive encyclopedia presents African thinkers, concepts and traditions, with a focus on African religious and philosophical practices. It offers a dependable and significant synthesis of African studies that encompasses major trends in the field since the early 1980s. The encyclopedia considers all religious and philosophical systems of Africa, both indigenous and non-indigenous. It also recognizes the determining role of the Diaspora in understanding African traditions and African identity. The work has benefited immensely from commitments in advanced interdisciplinary exchanges in a number of domains, including comparative research in epistemology and from surveys in postcolonial studies and social sciences, along with religious and philosophical compendia. In brief, this is an encyclopedia made from the viewpoint of African studies and in dialogue with scientific traditions
Author : N. Amanze
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9966040250
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Philosophy written by N. Amanze and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the study of Biblical studies, theology, religion and philosophy from an African perspective. The book comprises twenty six chapters divided into four sections. The first section deals with Biblical studies, the second with theology, the third with religion and the fourth with philosophy. The contributions are from 20 eminent scholars from African and Caribbean universities.
Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546297472
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Religion written by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work focuses on the major inquiries in philosophy of religion. This work is unique in its own way, in the sense that it introduces something new to the corpus of literature that is often referred to as philosophy of religion. It introduces themes in African philosophy of religion, which is an area not often referred to in African philosophy, let alone in textbooks in philosophy of religion. As this work opens a new aperture in the study of the philosophy of religion, it is hoped that it would generate further interest in the study of African philosophy of religion.
Author : Nathan R. B. Loewen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350264024
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Diversifying Philosophy of Religion written by Nathan R. B. Loewen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much philosophical thinking about religion in the Anglophone world has been hampered by the constraints of Eurocentrism, colonialism and orientalism. Addressing such limitations head-on, this exciting collection develops models for exploring global diversity in order to bring philosophical studies of religion into the globalized 21st century. Drawing on a wide range of critical theories and methodologies, and incorporating ethnographic, feminist, computational, New Animist and cognitive science approaches, an international team of contributors outline the methods and aims of global philosophy of religion. From considering the importance of orality in African worldviews to interacting with Native American perspectives on the cosmos and investigating contemplative studies in Hinduism, each chapter demonstrates how expertise in different methods can be applied to various geographical regions, building constructive options for philosophical reflections on religion. Diversifying Philosophy of Religion raises important questions regarding who speaks for and represents religious traditions, setting the agenda for a truly inclusive philosophy of religion that facilitates multiple standpoints.
Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793630283
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions written by Chammah J. Kaunda and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution, contributorsexplore John Samuel Mbiti’s contributions to African scholarship and demonstrate how he broke through the western glass ceiling of scholarship and made African-informed and African-shaped scholarship a reality. Contributors examine the far-reaching implications of Mbiti’s scholarship, arguing that he shifted the contemporary African Christian landscape and informed global expressions of Christianity. African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions analyzes Mbiti’s scholarship and shows that his theories are malleable and fluid, allowing a new generation of scholars to reinterpret, reconstruct, and further develop his theories. This collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of contemporary African theology and grapple with questions Africans face in the twenty-first century.
Author : Oludamini Ogunnaike
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271087617
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Deep Knowledge written by Oludamini Ogunnaike and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth, comparative study of two of the most popular and influential intellectual and spiritual traditions of West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa. Employing a unique methodological approach that thinks with and from—rather than merely about—these traditions, Oludamini Ogunnaike argues that they contain sophisticated epistemologies that provide practitioners with a comprehensive worldview and a way of crafting a meaningful life. Using theories belonging to the traditions themselves as well as contemporary oral and textual sources, Ogunnaike examines how both Sufism and Ifa answer the questions of what knowledge is, how it is acquired, and how it is verified. Or, more simply: What do you know? How did you come to know it? How do you know that you know? After analyzing Ifa and Sufism separately and on their own terms, the book compares them to each other and to certain features of academic theories of knowledge. By analyzing Sufism from the perspective of Ifa, Ifa from the perspective of Sufism, and the contemporary academy from the perspective of both, this book invites scholars to inhabit these seemingly “foreign” intellectual traditions as valid and viable perspectives on knowledge, metaphysics, psychology, and ritual practice. Unprecedented and innovative, Deep Knowledge makes a significant contribution to cross-cultural philosophy, African philosophy, religious studies, and Islamic studies. Its singular approach advances our understanding of the philosophical bases underlying these two African traditions and lays the groundwork for future study.
Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546297413
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Disciplines of African Philosophy written by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades, African philosophers have debated on the history, nature, and methodology of African philosophy, among others; however, this piece takes a different turn. It reflects on the disciplines of African philosophy. It is a work of twelve chapters and focuses on the major disciplines of African philosophy. This piece is a response to the recurrent question in the class of African philosophy: What are the disciplines of African Philosophy?
Author : Innocent Chilaka Onyewuenyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Belief in Reincarnation written by Innocent Chilaka Onyewuenyi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Essien, Essien D.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799845966
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality written by Essien, Essien D. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an interesting knowledge trajectory that God remains incomprehensible, not imperceptible. This lends credence to the fact that religious study since the Enlightenment has dedicated itself almost entirely to the problem of reconciling the non-existence of God in the physical world with his necessary existence in the metaphysical world. When seriously examined, it would be discovered that these two aspects are logically contradictory, and this is a problem with no solution. But interpreting God not as a physical being but as a phenomenological thing changes the nature of the problem enough that a solution emerges almost automatically. In this phenomenological model, the crux of the matter is that God does not exist, but God is real. Therefore, it is imperative to return to experience and verifiability, hence, purging it of unexamined and often hidden assumptions. Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality brings together the different disciplines and research approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of God and spirituality, as well as offering an effective epistemological apparatus capable of dealing with this concept. The book employs multidisciplinary approaches from religious studies, theology, philosophy, anthropology, and other segments to dissect the subject matter for efficient evaluation and all-inclusive findings. While covering various aspects of religion such as the testaments of the Bible, the church, the religious experience, and various aspects of spirituality, this book is intended for theologians, philosophers, religious leaders, policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, public institutions, and agencies with a special interest in religious matters, values, knowledge, and truth.
Author : Carolyn M. Jones Medine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498056
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora written by Carolyn M. Jones Medine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world. The volume focuses on the continent, on African identity in globalization, and on African religion in cultural change.
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474281370
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Tales of Faith written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage.
Author : Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956726850
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book African Belief and Knowledge Systems written by Munyaradzi Mawere and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate on the existence of African philosophy has taken central stage in academic circles, and academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects of this subject. This book notes that the debate on the existence of African philosophy is no longer necessary. Instead, it urges scholars to demonstrate the different philosophical genres embedded in African philosophy. As such, the book explores African metaphysical epistemology with the hope to redirect the debate on African philosophy. It articulates and systematizes metaphysical and epistemological issues in general and in particular on Africa. The book aptly shows how these issues intersect with the philosophy of life, traditional beliefs, knowledge systems and practices of ordinary Africans and the challenges they raise for scholarship in and on philosophy with relevance to Africa.
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Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)
Download or read book African Religions [and] Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mba Jonathan Kathenge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546252719
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Philosophy & Religion written by Mba Jonathan Kathenge and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas are dynamic, so is true of philosophical reflection and human thinking activity, always bringing into light new developments or building upon the existing knowledge to keep it alive and pass it to the present and future generations. In the process of doing so, academicians find themselves coming up with new works to add to the academic pool and on their desk. This book is a result of such reflection. Not as an after thought or prior thought, but as product of a process that conceived a combination of two analogical disciplines, that is; Philosophy and Religion as studied in higher education institutions under the banner Philosophy and Religious studies. The book is in three parts or sections. Section ones subject matter of discussion is philosophy, beginning with an introduction to what Philosophy entails. Then, it goes deeper into historical periods of Philosophical development with much emphasis on the ancient historical period or ancient philosophy which dealt primarily with cosmological questions. This led to the birth of Metaphysics as has come to be known as a branch of Philosophy. This part is covered in chapter one through chapter two. The second part goes into the area of African Philosophy which developed in the period around 1960s taking into consideration its subject matter from anthropological and theological literature. The section covers a period viewed here as an era of biasness towards any conception of African philosophy and the responses advanced by different thinkers for a defense or justification of the existence of African Philosophy with many of them basing their arguments on the concept known as sage philosophy. Much of the new development in this philosophical circle was the inter-relationship of African philosophical concept of the religious belief in their deity, leading to the dictum that Africans are notoriously religious. This discussion is covered here in chapters three through chapter five. Part three of this book has religious discussion on Sacred Scripture as the main subject matter. It discusses such matters relevant to Scripture as; - Revelation, Inspiration, Hermeneutics, Sources and Canonicity. It delves into brief critical exegesis on Pentateuch, Wisdom literature, the books of Prophets, and ends with a brief discussion on the four Gospels, the synoptic problem and matters in the Acts of Apostles. This is covered in chapter six through chapter nine. By weaving the two analogical disciplines together, that is; Philosophy and Religion in one seamless volume, this book provides an in depth resourceful material for students and instructors in the Philosophy and Religious study department in higher institutes of learning as well as those from all cadre who love wisdom
Author : Richard A. Wright
Publisher : Lanham : University Press of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book African Philosophy written by Richard A. Wright and published by Lanham : University Press of America. This book was released on 1984 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the book is thus to present, substantively, significant writing on African Philosophy, in a form which will be useful both in the classroom and in the library of those interested in Africa.
