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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.

An Anthology of Kongo Religion

Author : John M. Janzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Kongo Religion written by John M. Janzen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bukôngo

Author : Kiatezua Lubanzadio Luyaluka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Bukôngo written by Kiatezua Lubanzadio Luyaluka and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a perception of religion according to the deep mind of Kôngo people. It revisits such concepts as the n'kisi and the Kôngo cosmogram; and provides a novel perception of Kôngo Initiatory academies.. The book studies the Kôngo religion from the perspective of its scientificity, demonstrating thereby its congruence with the religions of ancient Egypt, Sumer, and primitive Christianity.

Kongo Political Culture

Author : Wyatt MacGaffey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253336989
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Kongo Political Culture written by Wyatt MacGaffey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lutete devoted much of his attention to aspects of Kongo ritual and religious belief, including minkisi and the rituals for the installation of chiefs. The original text of what he had to say about chiefship is printed, with translation notes. The work of other informants is also used."--BOOK JACKET.

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo

Author : Jeroen Dewulf
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496808843
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo written by Jeroen Dewulf and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the usual interpretation of this celebration of a "slave king" as a form of carnival. Instead, he shows that it is a ritual rooted in mutual-aid and slave brotherhood traditions. By placing these traditions in an Atlantic context, Dewulf identifies striking parallels to royal election rituals in slave communities elsewhere in the Americas, and he traces these rituals to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and the impact of Portuguese culture in West-Central Africa. Dewulf's focus on the social capital of slaves follows the mutual aid to seventeenth-century Manhattan. He suggests a much stronger impact of Manhattan's first slave community on the development of African American identity in New York and New Jersey than hitherto assumed. While the earliest works on slave culture in a North American context concentrated on an assumed process of assimilation according to European standards, later studies pointed out the need to look for indigenous African continuities. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo suggests the necessity for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many Africans had with European--primarily Portuguese--cultures before they were shipped as slaves to the Americas. The book has already garnered honors as the winner of the Richard O. Collins Award in African Studies, the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award, and the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Prize.

Rituals of Resistance

Author : Jason R. Young
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807137197
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.

Modern Kongo Prophets

Author : Wyatt MacGaffey
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Modern Kongo Prophets written by Wyatt MacGaffey and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theoretical Explorations in African Religion

Author : Wim van Binsbergen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136137866
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Explorations in African Religion written by Wim van Binsbergen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985. This collection of papers on theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of African religion is the outcome of a conference which the editors were asked to convene on behalf of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, in December 1979.

Science and Religion Around the World

Author : John Hedley Brooke
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195328191
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Science and Religion Around the World written by John Hedley Brooke and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often scholars of science and religion have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience. At a time when religious ignorance and misunderstanding have lethal consequences, such provincialism must be avoided. This book expands our knowledge of science and religion beyond its largely Christian base to include the other Abrahamic faiths and the indigenous traditions of Africa and Asia.

Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Author : Martha Frederiks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399607
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission written by Martha Frederiks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.

Who’s Who of World Religions

Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349095001
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Who’s Who of World Religions written by John R. Hinnells and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-12-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In historical terms, religions do not exist apart from the people who practise them. This is the first collection of biographical studies of figures from religions around the globe and from traditions both ancient and modern. It represents the work of an enormous international team of scholars, and although many entries involve original research, this substantial work of reference is intended to be of use to both the specialist and the general reader. Particular care has been taken to ensure a balance between religions and to include figures from the diverse branches of the different religions. Indexes and an extensive bibliography make it an invaluable working tool.

Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville

Author : Phyllis M. Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253220556
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville written by Phyllis M. Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s to the present. Phyllis M. Martin emphasizes the social identity of mothers and the practice of motherhood, a prime concern of Congolese women, as they individually and collectively made sense of their place within the Church. Martin traces women's early resistance to missionary overtures and church schools, and follows their relationship with missionary Sisters, their later embrace of church-sponsored education, their participation in popular Catholicism, and the formation of women's fraternities. As they drew together as mothers and sisters, Martin asserts, women began to affirm their place in a male-dominated institution. Covering more than a century of often turbulent times, this rich and readable book examines an era of far-reaching social change in Central Africa.

The Church in Africa, 1450-1950

Author : Adrian Hastings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198263996
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 written by Adrian Hastings and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.

Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba

Author : Jualynne E. Dodson
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826343538
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba written by Jualynne E. Dodson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

New Religions [2 volumes]

Author : Eugene V. Gallagher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440862362
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book New Religions [2 volumes] written by Eugene V. Gallagher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable resource for students and general audiences, this book provides a unique global perspective on the history, beliefs, and practices of emergent faith communities; new religious traditions; and religious movements worldwide, from the 19th century to the present. New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World provides insightful global perspectives on the emergent faith communities and new traditions and movements of the last two centuries. Readers will gain access to the information necessary to explore the significance, complexities, and challenges that modern religious traditions have faced throughout their history and that continue to impact society today. The work identifies the themes and issues that have often brought new religions into conflict with the larger societies of which they are a part. Coverage includes new religious groups that emerged in America, such as the Seventh-day Adventists, the Latter-day Saints, and the Jehovah's Witnesses; alternative communities around the globe that emerged from the major Western and Eastern traditions, such as Aum Shinrikyo and Al-Qaeda; and marginalized groups that came to a sudden end, such as the Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Branch Davidians. The entries highlight thematic and broader issues that run across the individual religious traditions, and will also help students analyze and assess the common difficulties faced by emergent religious communities.

Gesture and Power

Author : Yolanda Covington-Ward
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374846
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Gesture and Power written by Yolanda Covington-Ward and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control. More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.

Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches

Author : Joan Cameron Bristol
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826337993
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches written by Joan Cameron Bristol and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.