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Book of African Spirituality

Author : Ra Meri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620892889
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Book of African Spirituality written by Ra Meri and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories are a form of advanced technology that was developed by African Sages. They are rich in symbolism and coded messaging. The Book of African Spirituality is an advanced form of storytelling.When you read the stories, they imprint your mind with the wisdom that story represents. It is not just about knowing the story, although that is important too - but the symbols and verses invoke something wonderful deep within. They are actually alive. They are living wisdom passed down through many generations like a family heirloom.They are not just imbued with meaning. They are impregnated with vitality and function. A function that arises from their wisdom.The stories are a living heritage. A living body of truth. A living image of the Hidden Intelligence - known as Neter. They carry in them an advanced technology that when fully understood unlocks the true "Knowledge of Self" that African Sages such as Imhotep, were teaching.

African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison

Author : K. Zauditu-Selassie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison written by K. Zauditu-Selassie and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Addresses a real need: a scholarly and ritually informed reading of spirituality in the work of a major African American author. No other work catalogues so thoroughly the grounding of Morrison's work in African cosmogonies. Zauditu-Selassie's many readings of Ba Kongo and Yoruba spiritual presence in Morrison's work are incomparably detailed and generally convincing."--Keith Cartwright, University of North Florida Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-force critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved, and Jazz. While others have studied the African spiritual ideas and values encoded in Morrison's work, African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison is the most comprehensive. Zauditu-Selassie explores a wide range of complex concepts, including African deities, ancestral ideas, spiritual archetypes, mythic trope, and lyrical prose representing African spiritual continuities. Zauditu-Selassie is uniquely positioned to write this book, as she is not only a literary critic but also a practicing Obatala priest in the Yoruba spiritual tradition and a Mama Nganga in the Kongo spiritual system. She analyzes tensions between communal and individual values and moral codes as represented in Morrison's novels. She also uses interviews with and nonfiction written by Morrison to further build her critical paradigm.

African Spirituality

Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761872612
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality. Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life. As a way of living, African spirituality begins when an individual becomes morally and ethically responsible for one’s own actions while engaged on an ethical path (Ɔbra Bↄ) in pursuance of one’s unique career endeavor (Nkrabea). Though an individual quest, society is, however, the arbiter of one’s ethical and moral life, when society confers on the person adjudged a success the stage title of Nana. At old age, Ɔbra Bↄ ends as an active endeavor. However, as repositories of wisdom, senior elders continue to inculcate in succeeding generations the principles, art, and mastery of ideal life (Ɔbra pa). Then upon death, senior elders are transformed into deities, bequeathing to living descendants names worthy of evocation and worship. Indeed, this book is the first study of its kind to draw on the experiences of an entire people, their psychological dispositions and effects on the Akan during adulthood. Thus, this book brings a unique perspective to the study of spirituality, religion, developmental psychological theory, what it means to achieve perfection as an elder on earth, and upon death join the esteemed company of the Nananom Nsamanfo (Ancestors).

The Spirituality of African Peoples

Author : Peter J. Paris
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451415865
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Spirituality of African Peoples written by Peter J. Paris and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris focuses on African "spirituality"--the religious and moral values pervading traditional African religious worldviews. Paris's careful scholarship and his eye for value in varying cultural milieus combine to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify cultural foundations of black ethical life.

African Spirituality

Author : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
Publisher : World Spirituality
ISBN 13 : 9780824507800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality written by Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona and published by World Spirituality. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Africa moves into the 21st century it faces new spiritual, social, and economic challenges.

Introduction to African Religion

Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478628928
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to African Religion written by John S. Mbiti and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his widely acclaimed survey, John Mbiti sheds light on the survival and prosperity of African Religion in different historical, geographical, sociological, cultural, and physical environments. He presents a constellation of African worldviews, beliefs in God, use of symbols, valued traditions, and practices that have taken root with African peoples throughout the vast continent. Mbiti’s accessible writing style sympathetically portrays how African Religion manifests itself in ritual, festival, healing, the human life cycle, and interplay with the mystical and invisible world. The account embraces foundational traditions, while touching on elements that spawn transitions, including migration, the spread of Christianity and Islam, political-economic development, and modern communication. This popular introduction leaves readers with informed knowledge of the riches of African heritage.

Literary Expressions of African Spirituality

Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739181424
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Literary Expressions of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.

Encyclopedia of African Religion

Author : Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412936365
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Religion written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.

African Spirituality

Author : Udobata Onunwa
Publisher : Arima Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781845490577
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality written by Udobata Onunwa and published by Arima Pub. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To penetrate the complex domain of African Spirituality is a task that demands personal contact with the living votaries of the traditional religion.It needs extra patience, commitment and an open mind to listen and understand the deep and immense spiritual powers that guide and direct African thought and action. The most important channel to use is to explore the African myths, which the Africans use enormously to express their philosophical, theological, cosmological and moral wisdom and values. Professor Onunwa has attempted to give a fresh insight into this complex domain of African studies. He has taught in universities and theological colleges in Nigeria, Tanzania, UK and India. Among his published works are Studies in Igbo Religion (1990), African Spirituality (1992 - Revised and Enlarged,2005), Selected Themes in African Religion and Culture (2000), Studies in African Religion and Culture: A Critique of Methodologies (2002 - reprinted 2004), Proclaiming Christ in all Cultures (2003), Studies in African Religion and Culture: A Critique of Methodologies (200

African Personality and Spirituality

Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498521231
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book African Personality and Spirituality written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a divine pronouncement among the Akan that all human beings are children of God (Nana Nyame), none a child of the earth (mother); meaning that human beings are spiritual in origin, descending directly from God via the Abosom (gods and goddesses). Every person then has a deity as father (Ᾱgya-bosom), recognition of which existentially enables a person to fulfil one’s career or professional blueprint (Nkrabea). Intrinsically, therefore, human beings embody the very essence of the Abosom, which manifests itself behaviorally and psychologically in a manner identical to those of the gods and goddesses. African Personality and Spirituality: The Role of Abosom and Human Essence therefore addresses ultimate existential concerns of the Akan, revealing the essence of the primeval gods and goddesses and how they transform themselves into human beings, as well as the psychology of personality characteristic attributes, the phenomenon of spirit alightment, and other manifestations of the gods and goddesses, and the imperative of ethical existence and generativity (Ↄbra bᴐ) as basis of eternal life.

Soul Talk

Author : Akasha Gloria Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594775214
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Soul Talk written by Akasha Gloria Hull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A celebration of the journey of African-American women toward a new spirituality grounded in social awareness, black American tradition, metaphysics, and heightened creativity. • Features illuminating insights from Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Lucille Clifton, Dolores Kendrick, Sonia Sanchez, Michele Gibbs, Geraldine McIntosh, Masani Alexis DeVeaux and Namonyah Soipan. • By a widely published scholar, poet, and activist who has been interviewed by the press, television, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered From the last part of the twentieth century through today, African-American women have experienced a revival of spirituality and creative force, fashioning a uniquely African-American way to connect with the divine. In Soul Talk, Akasha Gloria Hull examines this multifaceted spirituality that has both fostered personal healing and functioned as a formidable weapon against racism and social injustice. Through fascinating and heartfelt conversations with some of today's most creative and powerful women--women whose spirituality encompasses, among others, traditional Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, Native American teachings, meditation, the I Ching, and African-derived ancestral reverence--the author explores how this new spiritual consciousness is manifested, how it affects the women who practice it, and how its effects can be carried to others. Using a unique and readable blend of interviews, storytelling, literary critique, and practical suggestions of ways readers can incorporate similar renewal into their daily lives, Soul Talk shows how personal and social change are possible through reconnection with the spirit.

What Is Not Sacred?

Author : Magesa Laurenti
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608333213
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book What Is Not Sacred? written by Magesa Laurenti and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is not for you to call profane what God counts clean."
Did Christianity replace traditional African religion with the arrival of European missionaries in past centuries? Or did sub-Saharan African cultures persist in maintaining their religious worldviews even after accepting the salvific message of Christianity? In this compelling book, Laurenti Magesa argues that despite missionary Christiaity's refusal to acknowledge the worth of traditional African religious culture. the incarnational spirituality of those cultures remains vibrant and visible today, and has much to offer and teach other cultures, both Christian and not.

Connecting With Your Ancestors

Author : Monique Joiner Siedlak
Publisher : Oshun Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1950378381
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Connecting With Your Ancestors written by Monique Joiner Siedlak and published by Oshun Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How difficult is it to communicate with your ancestors? We sense their presence, instinctively, and wish to communicate with them. It’s time to realize it is possible. There are numerous reasons you may want to learn how to communicate with your ancestors. For me, the main reason is for healing. To ultimately let go of old hurts and not transfer them on to the next generation. Within the pages of this short read, you will learn: • The Traditions of Ancestral Communication • Who is an Ancestor? • Spiritually Connect With Your Ancestors • How to create an ancestral shrine or altar as well as offerings and prayers. Just like any other relationship, you will need to work at it. Be consistent. Your ancestors will respond to you. By increasing your awareness, you may see the signs they are trying to show you. The best way to begin is now!

The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts

Author : Baba Ifa Karade
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1633411346
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts written by Baba Ifa Karade and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the spiritual source of the beliefs and practices that have so profoundly shaped African American religious traditions. Most of the Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas were from the Yoruba nation of West Africa, an ancient and vast civilization. In the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the guiding concepts of the Yoruba spiritual tradition took root in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. In this accessible introduction, Baba Ifa Karade provides an overview of the Yoruba tradition and its influence in the West. He describes the sixteen Orisha, or spirit gods, and shows us how to work with divination, use the energy centers of the body to internalize the teachings of Yoruba, and create a sacred place of worship. The book also includes prayers, dances, songs, offerings, and sacrifices to honor the Orisha.

The Way of the Elders

Author : Adama Doumbia
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 9780738706269
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Elders written by Adama Doumbia and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers catch a rare glimpse of West African spirituality in "The Way of the Elders," co-authored by a West African native raised in the Mande tradition. This spiritual guidebook explores offerings, charms, herbal healing, shamans, the importance of wildlife, and the four elements of nature.

African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction

Author : Elizabeth J. West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739179373
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction written by Elizabeth J. West and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New World African spirituality as a syncretic dynamic of spiritual retentions and transformations that have played prominently in the literary imagination of black women writers. Beginning with the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction traces applications and transformations of African spirituality in black women's writings that culminate in the conscious and deliberate celebration of Africanity in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. The journey from Wheatley's veiled remembrances to Hurston's explicit gaze of continental Africa represents the literary journey of black women writers to represent Africa as not only a very real creative resource but also a liberating one. Hurston's icon of black female autonomy and self realization is woven from the thread work of African spiritual principles that date back to early black women's writings.

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.