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African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo

Author : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher : Athelia Henrietta Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo written by Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and published by Athelia Henrietta Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life is fundamentally a process of perpetual and mutual communication; and to communicate is to emit and to receive waves and radiations (minika ye minienie). This process of, receiving and releasing or passing them on (tambula ye tambikisa) is the key to human beings game of survival. A person is perpetually bathed by radiations' weight, (zitu kia minienie). The weight (zitu/demo) of radiations may have a negative as well as positive impact on any tiny being, for example a person who represents the most vibrating: "kolo" (knot) of relationships." "The following expressions are very common among the Bantu, in general, and among the Kongo in particular, which prove to us the antiquity of these concepts in the African continent; Our businesses are waved/shaken; our health is waved/shaken; what we possess is waved/shaken; the communities are waved/shaken: Where are these (negative) waves coming from (Salu bieto bieti nikunwa; mavimpi nikunwa; biltuvwidi nikunwa; makanda nikunwa: Kwe kutukanga minika miami)?" "For the Bantu, a person lives and moves within an ocean of waves/radiations. One is sensitive or immune to them. To be sensitive to waves is to be able to react negatively or positively to those waves/forces. But to be immune to surrounding waves/forces, is to be less reactive to them or not at all. These differences account for varying degrees in the process of knowing/learning among individuals" --BOOK Cover.

Death and the Invisible Powers

Author : Simon Bockie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253315649
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Death and the Invisible Powers written by Simon Bockie and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Bockie's] description of Kongo culture is vivid, beautifullyclear, and absolutely authentic, as only a native could make it.... I don't know ofanything of its kind that is both as good, ethnographically, and asreadable." -- Wyatt MacGaffey "Simon Bockie haswritten an engaging, often personal account of the views and behaviors surroundingdeath in his own society, the Kongo of Lower Zaire, northern Angola, and theCongo." -- Cahiers d'Etudes africaines ..". excellentbook of Kongo religious life and thought... " --Religion "It is a book that is remarkably well written, bothfor its readability and for its explanatory value.... the book is a superb startingplace for understanding Kongo religion, and will work as an introduction to Africanreligion in general as well." -- International Journal of African HistoricalStudies ..". an excellent introduction for anyone seeking tounderstand Kongo traditional culture and thought." --Oshun Rich in anecdote and case histories, Death and the InvisiblePowers is a personal account of the spiritual life of the Kongo people. It describesthe ancient traditions that nourish a culture whose name symbolizes the heart ofCentral Africa.

Self- Healing Power and Therapy

Author : K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580730266
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Self- Healing Power and Therapy written by K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mbongi

Author : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979895104
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mbongi by : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

Download or read book The Mbongi written by Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rituals of Resistance

Author : Jason R. Young
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807139238
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Resistance written by Jason R. Young and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina during the era of slavery. The choice of these two sites mirrors the historical trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade which, for centuries, transplanted Kongolese captives to the Lowcountry through the ports of Charleston and Savannah. Analyzing the historical exigencies of slavery and the slave trade that sent not only men and women but also cultural meanings, signs, symbols, and patterns across the Atlantic, Young argues that religion operated as a central form of resistance against slavery and the ideological underpinnings that supported it. Through a series of comparative chapters on Christianity, ritual medicine, burial practices, and transmigration, Young details the manner in which Kongolese people, along with their contemporaries and their progeny who were enslaved in the Americas, utilized religious practices to resist the savagery of the slave trade and slavery itself. When slaves acted outside accepted parameters—in transmigration, spirit possession, ritual internment, and conjure—Young explains, they attacked not only the condition of being a slave, but also the systems of modernity and scientific rationalism that supported slavery. In effect, he argues, slave spirituality played a crucial role in the resocialization of the slave body and behavior away from the oppressions and brutalities of the master class. Young's work expands traditional scholarship on slavery to include both the extensive work done by African historians and current interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies, anthropology, and literature. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources from both American and African archives, including slave autobiography, folktales, and material culture, Rituals of Resistance offers readers a nuanced understanding of the cultural and religious connections that linked blacks in Africa with their enslaved contemporaries in the Americas. Moreover, Young's groundbreaking work gestures toward broader themes and connections, using the case of the Kongo and the Lowcountry to articulate the development of a much larger African Atlantic space that connected peoples, cultures, languages, and lives on and across the ocean's waters.

Kindezi

Author : Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580730259
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Kindezi by : Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

Download or read book Kindezi written by Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present the importance of this African tradition. Kindezi (the art of babysitting) and the ndezi (the babysitters) provide extensive value and service to both society and the individual child, making for a cohesive, unified community.

CaoDai, Faith of Unity

Author : Hum Bui
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504901908
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book CaoDai, Faith of Unity written by Hum Bui and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CaoDai, a Faith of Unity discusses the oneness between God, human beings and the universe, including religions. Religions share the same divine origin, and ethics based on love and justice, and they are just different manifestations of one truth. If human beings realize the oneness between God, human beings, and religions, the world may achieve harmony.

African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry

Author : Ras Michael Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139561049
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry written by Ras Michael Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes, such as establishing new communities and incorporating American forms of Christianity into an African-based spirituality. This book illuminates how people of African descent engaged the spiritual landscape of the Lowcountry through their subsistence practices, religious experiences and political discourse.

African Traditional Religion in the Modern World, 2d ed.

Author : Douglas E. Thomas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620199
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis African Traditional Religion in the Modern World, 2d ed. by : Douglas E. Thomas

Download or read book African Traditional Religion in the Modern World, 2d ed. written by Douglas E. Thomas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African traditional religion encompasses a variety of non-dogmatic, spiritual practices followed by millions around the world. Some scholars argue it is related to the Nubian religion of Egypt's Dynastic Period. In an expanded second edition, this book examines the nature of African traditional religion and describes common attributes of various cultural belief systems, with an emphasis on West Africa. Principal elements studied include sacrifice, salvation and culture, modes of revelation, divination, and African resilience in the face of invasion and colonization. The religious experiences of black people throughout the Americas are also covered. The author finds the cosmology, symbolism and rituals of the Yoruba culture to be the fundamental bases of African traditional religion, and draws similarities between the oral and written literature of West Africans and that of New World practitioners. The influence of Islam and Christianity is also discussed. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Simba Simbi

Author : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0805969667
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Simba Simbi written by Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Black Studies

Author : Karenga (Maulana.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Black Studies written by Karenga (Maulana.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Principles of Life

Author : Steve Norton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954195403
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Life written by Steve Norton and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Steve Norton has been teaching people how to control their thoughts using the revolutionary techniques he has honed through years of research. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-understand style, this book makes these techniques are available to all to use and incorporate in to your life.

Astonishment and Power

Author : National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Astonishment and Power written by National Museum of African Art (U.S.) and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing together the minkisi tradition of the Kongo peoples of Central Africa and the art of Renée Stout, "Atonishment & Power" explores a complex African visual tradition and its resonance in the work of a contemporary African-American woman artist. Minkisi, as described by Wyatt MacGaffey, are figures or operative complexes made from natural and man-made materials are intended as containers for powerful medicines. Often visually impressive, minkisi are invoked to accomplish various purposes, both to heal and to harm. In discussing minkisi, MacGaffey includes numerous early-20th-century commentaries written by young Kongo men. As Michael Harris reveals, the art of Renée Stout incorporates the forms and conceptual qualities of Kongo minkisi. The inspiration for her work derives from her personal memories and her deep interest in minkisi and African beliefs. Like minkisi, Stout's work sits at a crossroads--of the sacred and the secular, the West and Africa. Both the Kongo people and Renée Stout are masters at creating works of astonishment and power, invocation and art."--Back cover.

The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert

Author : Zulumathabo Zulu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620599375
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert written by Zulumathabo Zulu and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African desert flower Mponeng is optimised to enhance her survival experience regardless of the magnitude of adverse conditions in the terrestrial space that continuously poses an impressive threat to her survival experience. This time-tested mystical strategy holds great promise for humanity with respect to the need to upgrade our coping and transcending skills and resources to enhance our survival experience so that we remain undefined by the adverse conditions.

Black Magic

Author : Yvonne P. Chireau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520249887
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Black Magic written by Yvonne P. Chireau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chireau has written a marvelous text on an important dimension of African American religious culture. Expanding beyond the usual focus of scholarship on Christianity, she describes and analyzes the world of magical-medical-religious practice, challenging hallowed distinctions among "religion" and "magic." Anyone interested in African American religion will need to reckon seriously with Chireau's text on conjure."—Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University "Deprived of their own traditions and defined as chattel, enslaved Africans formed a new orientation in America. Conjuring—operating alongside of and within both the remnants of African culture and the acquired traditions of North America—served as a theoretical and practical mode of deciphering and divining within this, enabling them to create an alternate meaning of life in the New World. Chireau's is the first full-scale treatment of this important dimension of African American culture and religion. A wonderful book!"—Charles H. Long, Professor of History of Religions University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Religion

Kongo Across the Waters

Author : Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813049458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Kongo Across the Waters written by Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the transatlantic connections between Central Africa and North America over the past 500 years in the visual and performing arts of both cultures.

Theory of African Metaphysics

Author : Yongho Nchih Nichodemus
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497534896
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Theory of African Metaphysics written by Yongho Nchih Nichodemus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African metaphysics briefly is a study of the African world and world-view. As a study, it takes a deep and wide look into the nature of ultimate reality for Africans. It looks into the nature of forces or beings in the African Universe, the relationship between the seen and the unseen. African metaphysics is the key to the understanding and interpretation of life, existence, being, in fact reality as a whole as observed in the African Universe. The African sees his universe as essentially a religious one; a unified whole of visible and invisible and this organic whole of the visible world 'spiritually' blends with the divine invisible world to give the African the ultimate whole of life. The African further recognises that the forces in the universe are in constant motion and each force tends to affect another by its motion. This text brings to light the essentials of the African belief system and also with a visible and comprehensively review of the phenomenon of the forces in his environment and how he manipulates or interact with his nature. It is a must read for Africans philosophers, students, researchers and also those who seek to understand the nature of the African universe in relation to his cultural and social environment. It is a philosophical scholarly masterpiece of elaborate metaphysical nature meant to bring to the lamplight the fact that African has a metaphysical philosophy of its own