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Author :MD F a C S Joseph a Bailey II Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781537045948 Total Pages :630 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (459 download)
Book Synopsis African Tradition Wisdom Vs. European Information by : MD F a C S Joseph a Bailey II
Download or read book African Tradition Wisdom Vs. European Information written by MD F a C S Joseph a Bailey II and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Tradition is built on the innate"What it is" of oneself and life living that "Underlie" "how things appear" and "what things do." "Underlying" contents consist of Nature's infinite Foundation of Unified Complexity and multiplicity Patterns. These rest on the Ultimate of all Cosmic Orders-- the Spiritual Elements of Unconditional Love, Truth, Reality and the Natural--all Orderly orchestrated by the boundless Force, which Ancient Africans called Sekhem. This book deals with the Instincts, Common Sense, Creativity, Reasoning, Knowledge, Logic and Wisdom faculties naturally developing from ones inborn Pure Emotions and Pure Intellect. Their presented patterns are from my interpretations of African Tradition methods. Yet, vital to Thought Harmony inside creative explorations of the infinite "Underlyings" is Critical Thinking --serving like a protective, defending and guiding "seeing eye dog." These processes express ones innate Selfhood Greatness--derived from possessing a Spark of God + the supreme Ancient African "Genetics" + a "Unique" Talent to be a bridge to ones Mission in life. Proper use of these thinking faculties, while staying within Nature's Processes, make one a "Non-Self" individual--meaning "because we are, therefore I am"--and thus oriented to producing "ME/WE" benefits.Also addressed are the Healing for and Protective Measures against the European mindsets and methods used to generate massive Maafas (immeasurable catastrophes) on Black People.
Book Synopsis Undercurrents of Power by : Kevin Dawson
Download or read book Undercurrents of Power written by Kevin Dawson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Book Synopsis The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature by : Samuel L. Adams
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature written by Samuel L. Adams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to ancient wisdom literature, with fascinating essays on a broad range of topics. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature is a wide-ranging introduction to the texts, themes, and receptions of the wisdom literature of the Bible and the ancient world. This comprehensive volume brings together original essays from established scholars and emerging voices to offer a variety of perspectives on the “wisdom” biblical books, early Christian and rabbinic literature, and beyond. Varied and engaging essays provide fresh insights on topics of timeless relevance, exploring the distinct features of instructional texts and discussing their interpretation in both antiquity and the modern world. Designed for non-specialists, this accessible volume provides readers with balanced coverage of traditional biblical wisdom texts, including Proverbs, Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes; lesser-known Egyptian and Mesopotamian wisdom; and African proverbs. The contributors explore topics ranging from scribes and pedagogy in ancient Israel, to representations of biblical wisdom literature in contemporary cinema. Offering readers a fresh and interesting way to engage with wisdom literature, this book: Discusses sapiential books and traditions in various historical and cultural contexts Offers up-to-date discussion on the study of the biblical wisdom books Features essays on the history of interpretation and theological reception Includes essays covering the antecedents and afterlife of the texts Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion series, the Companion to Wisdom Literature is a valuable resource for university, seminary and divinity school students and instructors, scholars and researchers, and general readers with interest in the subject.
Book Synopsis Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene by : Hans Günter Brauch
Download or read book Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene written by Hans Günter Brauch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into Anthropocene-related studies by IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission. The first three chapters discuss the linkage between disasters and conflict risk reduction, responses to socio-environmental disasters in high-intensity conflict scenarios and the fragile state of disaster response with a special focus on aid-state-society relations in post-conflict settings. The two following chapters analyse climate-smart agriculture and a sustainable food system for a sustainable-engendered peace and the ethnology of select indigenous cultural resources for climate change adaptation focusing on the responses of the Abagusii in Kenya. A specific case study focuses on social representations and the family as a social institution in transition in Mexico, while the last chapter deals with sustainable peace through sustainability transition as transformative science concluding with a peace ecology perspective for the Anthropocene.
Book Synopsis African Europeans by : Olivette Otele
Download or read book African Europeans written by Olivette Otele and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures—like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village—and the untold stories—like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.
Book Synopsis Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture by : Ali Intezari
Download or read book Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture written by Ali Intezari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing attention towards the importance of practical wisdom in business today, little research has been done about the concept of practical wisdom in the Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern traditions. Contemporary studies of wisdom are dominated by the philosophical traditions of Western thought, which is based on the ancient Greek concepts of wisdom. Much less is known about how practical wisdom, as illuminated by these other traditions, can be implemented in today’s organizational settings. This book thus fills an important gap in understanding wisdom and how it is applied in a poly-cultural world. Wisdom is culturally bound. Wisdom is poly-cultural and interweaves individuality and communality. Practical wisdom is inextricably connected to many needs of contemporary personal and professional life. Moreover, the increasingly growing poly-culturality around the world requires a better understanding of how practical wisdom is understood in different cultures and traditions. Accordingly, there is a need for a) poly-cultural understanding of the concept of wisdom and b) the role of practical wisdom in a world crying out for wisdom. This book underlines the importance of developing a poly-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept of practical wisdom in today’s complex environment. The book offers significant insight into the implications of the non-Western traditions of wisdom and how such an understanding of the non-Western traditions can help us better and more critically understand and appropriately address new multi-faceted complex emerging phenomena. While the Western traditions offer valuable insight into the implication of wisdom in modern life, an integrated view that brings together the Western and non-Western traditions can provide a more critical and practical insight into how to apply practical wisdom in a contemporary poly-cultural environment.
Book Synopsis Bailey's Etymology in African Tradition by : Facs Joseph a Bailey, II MD
Download or read book Bailey's Etymology in African Tradition written by Facs Joseph a Bailey, II MD and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, all languages originated with Primitive Africans. Humanity's earliest language was based upon imitating beautiful rhythms of Nature. Later some were expanded into words before all being carried all over the world with African Migrations. Every culture made modifications to conform to its own unique Philosophy. Example: African Tradition's Subjective/Objective Science led them to infer the Divine Plan and it's working by Divine Archetypes. Archetypes model Ma'at-i.e. God-made Spiritual Elements of Unconditional Love, Truth, Reality, Naturalness. Their "Sameness" is in each human + in linkages of inner similarities in all humans + in all God-made things. Every entity throughout all God-made Cosmic things is a Foundational Systemization of Truth. Out of this multi-dimensional continuum of God's absolute, stability, certainty presence, Ancient Africans extracted ingredients for all Definitions, Meanings, Concepts, Figures of Communication. These form Foundations for all Thought Structures pertaining to Decisions/Solutions. Thus, just as organic Divine Archetypes give rise to organic Divine Prototypes on lesser planes of existence, so do African Etymologies do this for language. Such a Foundation has thereafter constituted African Tradition's Right Life Thinking/Living Foundational theme in Quantitative (for Intellect) + Qualitative (for Genius/Wisdom) thinking processes. This span necessitated Africans fully develop their Right + Left Brains, but with the Right Brain dominating since its wholistic aspects possess the God Module. That enabled Etymology forms to display, say, as Spiritual Poetry (sounds of Nature, like those of the Divine Logos) + Qualitative Algebra's ability to give insights into the Spiritual realms, from which Principles are drawn. Staying within their flow is what created African Tradition's Etymology Classical stability. Exactly the opposite was featured when Europeans appeared on Earth in 45,000 BC. Born into the harsh Ice Age necessitated a constant struggling for survival to deal only with the "here and now" Scarcity issues--without concern for the future. While Disconnecting from the Natural World's Supreme Creator, they substituted their most powerful warriors to be their gods. By only operating out of their Lower (animalistic) Selves and thus, no longer having a workable Genius/Wisdom faculty to figure out how to handle their Scarcity environment, they resorted to Kill/Take/Destroy of whatever was available from defenseless neighbors. Their immoral warriors' leaders designed military ways. Such "Do as I say do"-of an "all-or-none"/"either/or" nature meant a complete loss of African Tradition Mathematical thinking abilities. Such was transferred into a totally confused, conflicted, ambiguous European tradition language, called "Non-Rational" or "Non-sense". Since no outsiders could fully understand their "Non-sense" languages, all had to rely on what Europeans deceptively told them. And that serves as a way to control Victims' minds into what is self-defeating. Over millennia, European languages, originating as guesswork, became hodgepodge admixtures from intermingling with different "Non-sense" European languages. As each passed through varied languages in the course of several centuries, the chaotic results caused many changes in Europeans spoken/written forms. Each time, European etymology was made infinitely more complicated. After 1304, from remodeling the Arab's Gun, they have controlled the world-teaching all of their savage ways as "Facts" (not Truth) to everybody in every field of Humankind. So, the non-Spiritual is what is in their references (e.g. dictionaries)--each extremely deceptive and poorly written. Those accepting European false Information are led far, far away from the "Truth-Track." Failure to adhere to the "Beware of them" warning, guarantees one an ever-increasing mental turmoil of confusion, conflict, frustration.
Book Synopsis Finding Wisdom by : Merriam Fields Bleyl, PhD
Download or read book Finding Wisdom written by Merriam Fields Bleyl, PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Wisdom: Learning From Those Who Are Wise looks at wisdom through the lives of nineteen wise individuals from five distinct cultures—Navajo, Japanese, Kenyan, Saami, and Western European. The philosophies of these men and women unfold through their life stories. Traveling the world to meet these extraordinary men and women, the author discovered what the wise have in common, regardless of their cultures. All of us can benefit from those individuals who generate wise thoughts and actions. Through learning about “wise ones” who live among us, readers will find guidance for navigating through difficult times in their own lives and will learn to recognize the universal attributes of wisdom. Finding Wisdom explores wisdom as an attribute that men and women can and do attain. The book also addresses the questions: What is wisdom? Who is wise? What makes them so? How does one seek wisdom? Can wisdom be taught? and What difference can wisdom make in contemporary society?
Book Synopsis Power and Influence by : Chiku Malunga
Download or read book Power and Influence written by Chiku Malunga and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-06-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power and Influence demonstrates how the indigenous wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales can be used to enhance modern life. The timeless wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales enriches self-development and positive influence. The inspiring results provide deeper understanding of self-development and self-leadership, forming a solid foundation for leadership effectiveness at all levels. This book is among the first to consciously acknowledge and demonstrate the rationale of applying indigenous wisdom to enhance the understanding of disciplines, theories, and practice. African proverbs and folktales express an accumulated wisdom of human relations; add dimensions to practice in ways that are soulful, respectful, practical, and socially embedded. By using African indigenous wisdom, the book contributes towards the much-needed, cross-cultural dialogue among individuals, organizations and societies in this increasingly diversified world.
Book Synopsis African Theology as Liberating Wisdom by : Mari-Anna Pöntinen
Download or read book African Theology as Liberating Wisdom written by Mari-Anna Pöntinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana, Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this church. These interpretations draw from the Tswana tradition and liberation in Christ.
Book Synopsis Wisdom in Christian Tradition by : Marcus Plested
Download or read book Wisdom in Christian Tradition written by Marcus Plested and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a survey of the biblical and classical background, Wisdom in Christian Tradition offers a detailed exploration of the theme of wisdom in patristic, Byzantine, and medieval theology, up to and including Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas in Greek East and Latin West, respectively. Three principal levels of Christian wisdom discourse are distinguished: wisdom as human attainment, wisdom as divine gift, and wisdom as an attribute or quality of God. This journey through Wisdom in Christian Tradition is undertaken in conversation with modern Russian Sophiology, one of the most popular and widely discussed theological movements of our time. Sophiology is characterized by the idea of a primal pre-principle of divine-human unity ('Sophia') manifest in both uncreated and created forms and constituting the very foundation of all that is. Sophiology is a complex phenomenon with multiple sources and inspirations, very much including the Church Fathers. Indeed, fidelity to patristic tradition was to become an ever-increasing feature of its self-understanding and self-articulation, above all in the work of its greatest exponent, Fr Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944). This 'unmodern turn' (as it is here christened) to patristic sources has, however, long been fiercely contested. This book is the first to evaluate thoroughly the nature and substance of Sophiology's claim to patristic continuity. The final chapter offers a radical re-thinking of Sophiology in line with patristic tradition. This constructive proposal maintains Sophiology's most distinctive insights and most pertinent applications while divesting it of some its more problematic elements.
Book Synopsis Finding Your Way To Heaven Without a Smartphone by : Joe Obidiegwu
Download or read book Finding Your Way To Heaven Without a Smartphone written by Joe Obidiegwu and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In efforts to understand the human being, our history, and our future, the story takes the reader through three different continents, gleaning cultural well-being and malaise of different races. The book highlights the common bond between all human races, while exploring reasons for the perceived outer differences our modern world hurtles forward, driven as it is by powerful technological engines of change, characterized by an obsessive and often idolatrous worship of intelligence, ruminative men and women all around the world ponder in the silence of their soul the fate of humanity. In the West, depression, suicide, incomprehensible mass shootings and myriad psychological disorders litter our cultural landscape, while abject poverty ravage developing nations. We have become highly intelligent beings that cannot solve our problems, yet we inhabit a natural world created out of wisdom and much of that wisdom is not reflected in our thoughts and lifestyle Modern man's obsession with intelligence and the material world has left him a stranger to spiritual things and wisdom. Consequently, humanity is left vulnerable to inexplicable and undiagnosed suffering. in an attempt to diagnose what ails modern man, this book presents a convincing and thought-provoking argument that we have forgotten who we are, and in so doing, have built a world terribly out of order with our divine nature. By walking the reader through my Nigerian upbringing and subsequent arrival in the West, I reveal some timeless wisdom that I believe can serve as a cure for some of the things that trouble us today. This inimitable book lights a path directing us again to who we truly are. It is a timely and deft clarion call to all of us. Finding Your Way to Heaven Without a Smartphone is a mixture of autobiography, cultural inquiry and philosophy. Joseph Obidiegwu, an Igbo from Nigeria, has lived on three continents. He has the necessary perspective and wisdom to look at the world's masquerade from different angles. There is no romanticization of traditional African village life, nor is there blind acceptance of the hectic to and fro of modern life on planet Smartphone. Don Burness, Ph.D. Professor of Literature at Franklin Pierce College Author of Echoes of the Sunbird and Wanasema Keywords: Inimitable, Interesting, Insightful, Autobiographical, Philosophical, Spiritual, Cultural, Thought-Provoking, Inspiring, Life-Changing
Book Synopsis Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-ruled West Africa, 1914-1956 by : James Eskridge Genova
Download or read book Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-ruled West Africa, 1914-1956 written by James Eskridge Genova and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956 offers an innovative and provocative reassessment of the history and legacies of French colonial rule in West Africa between the First World War and the late 1950s. Making critical use of postcolonial and cultural theory, James E. Genova argues that the colonizers and the colonized were locked in a struggle for authority increasingly structured by competing notions of what it meant to be French or African. This book breaks new ground by demonstrating the centrality of the cultural question in the imperial encounters between France and West Africa. It maps the emergence of the French-educated elite as a social class in French West Africa as a window into the complex relationship between agency and structural context in the making of history. A disjunction developed between decolonization and liberation in the colonial liaison of France and West Africa that left colonizers and colonized trapped in a neocolonial cultural framework actualizing Frantz Fanon's deepest fears about the postcolony.
Book Synopsis Unmasking the African Ghost by : Cyril Orji
Download or read book Unmasking the African Ghost written by Cyril Orji and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Africa is a ghost story with two plots. One is foreign or imported and the other indigenous or local. The foreign plot has its origin in colonial history. The indigenous plot is African in origin. But both plots end in the same place: African trauma and culture complex. These narratives create in modern Africa a splintered consciousness and the political and economic conditions that lead to physical and psychological violence. Unmasking the African Ghost is both a theological exploration of the reasons the political and economic systems in African countries have failed and a proposal for the paths toward recovery, anchored in the belief that Africa is a continent continuously trying to redefine its identity in the face of Eurocentrism. For the church in Africa to be a church at the service of its people, theology in Africa must take misery and oppression as the context for its reflections and its reconstruction of the social order. An African solution to African problems must be able to meet the needs of the time. It must look to the African past to draw from its riches--particularly the African sociopolitical ethic of ubuntu. It must also look ahead and draw from the best available sociopolitical system of modern states: liberal democracy. A hybrid of these two yields ubuntucracy. Ubuntucracy removes the ghosts of both Africa and its Western colonizers and begins a new story that can help Africa survive its double bind.
Book Synopsis Bhakti - the Yoga of Love by : Samrat Schmiem Kumar
Download or read book Bhakti - the Yoga of Love written by Samrat Schmiem Kumar and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transrational Peaces is a new approach in contemporary Peace Research. It considers the rational and the spiritual sphere of human perception to be essential for the understanding of peace. In this book the Austrian-Indian researcher Samrat Schmiem Kumar presents the Indian tradition of Bhakti Yoga, and demonstrates the value of Indian philosophy for contemporary discussions on peace. In the philosophy of Bhakti, life is a playful and aesthetic relationship between human and the cosmos. The book opens the field of Peace Studies beyond the well-known horizons of the discipline in Europe and the United States.
Book Synopsis Wisdom's Friendly Heart by : Jennifer Hockenbery
Download or read book Wisdom's Friendly Heart written by Jennifer Hockenbery and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-hundred years ago, Augustine begged his African congregants to think rationally, pay attention to evidence, and listen to their neighbors. He knew this would not be easy. He knew that human error is more common than human knowledge. He himself had been a member of an elitist cult for nearly ten years and then had spent several years as a skeptic resigned to seeking wealth and honors rather than hoping for truth or goodness. He would not be surprised by the rise of white supremacist cults or the nihilistic apathy that have arisen in the “post truth” era. He had seen nativism, elitism, fear, and doubt rise in response to a crisis of hope that truth could be found, a crisis that led to the use of physical force rather than educated disputation, a crisis that ended in the fall of both Rome and Carthage to Vandals and Visigoths. Augustine’s response was to preach publically the hope that encouraged him in his own personal quest for a happy life. This book examines that hope in Augustine’s context until the current moment.
Book Synopsis Reclaiming Manhood: Overcoming Impotence with Modern Science and Age-Old Wisdom by : Christian Zachary Robertson
Download or read book Reclaiming Manhood: Overcoming Impotence with Modern Science and Age-Old Wisdom written by Christian Zachary Robertson and published by Jstone Publishing. This book was released on with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming Manhood: Overcoming Impotence with Modern Science and Age-Old Wisdom "Reclaiming Manhood: Overcoming Impotence with Modern Science and Age-Old Wisdom" is a transformative guide that bridges the gap between millennia-old traditional practices and the latest advances in medical science to address erectile dysfunction (ED). Written for men affected by ED, their partners, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in a deeper understanding of sexual health, this book offers a comprehensive look at both the causes and treatments of ED. The book unfolds a multifaceted discussion on ED, beginning with a detailed exploration of its physiological, psychological, and sociocultural dimensions. It features insightful interviews with a range of experts—from renowned urologists and endocrinologists to herbalists and traditional healers—who share their unique perspectives and approaches. These expert insights are complemented by real-life stories from men who have navigated the challenging waters of ED, offering readers both scientific strategies and personal experiences. From dietary adjustments and physical exercises to enhance sexual health, to cutting-edge medical treatments and age-old natural remedies, "Reclaiming Manhood" provides readers with a variety of tools and knowledge to tackle ED. This book not only educates but also empowers readers to reclaim control over their sexual health and rediscover their confidence and well-being.
