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Author : Ben Foley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781961623378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)
Download or read book The Basic Things You Need to Know about Serving God (Yoruba) written by Ben Foley and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracey E. Hucks
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826350771
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism written by Tracey E. Hucks and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi’s personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. She traces his development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced religio-cultural projects in Harlem and later in the South. Adefunmi was part of a generation of young migrants attracted to the bohemian lifestyle of New York City and the black nationalist fervor of Harlem. Cofounding Shango Temple in 1959, Yoruba Temple in 1960, and Oyotunji African Village in 1970, Adefunmi and other African Americans in that period renamed themselves “Yorubas” and engaged in the task of transforming Cuban Santer'a into a new religious expression that satisfied their racial and nationalist leanings and eventually helped to place African Americans on a global religious schema alongside other Yoruba practitioners in Africa and the diaspora. Alongside the story of Adefunmi, Hucks weaves historical and sociological analyses of the relationship between black cultural nationalism and reinterpretations of the meaning of Africa from within the African American community.
Author : Oyèrónké Oládém?
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479814016
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Women in Yoruba Religions written by Oyèrónké Oládém? and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people Women in Yoruba Religions examines the profound influence of Yoruba culture in Yoruba religion, Christianity, Islam, and Afro-Diasporic religions such as Santeria and Candomblé, placing gender relations in historical and social contexts. While the coming of Christianity and Islam to Yorubaland has posed significant challenges to Yoruba gender relations by propagating patriarchal gender roles, the resources within Yoruba culture have enabled women to contest the full acceptance of those new norms. Oyeronke Olademo asserts that Yoruba women attain and wield agency in family and society through their economic and religious roles, and Yoruba operate within a system of gender balance, so that neither of the sexes can be subsumed in the other. Olademo utilizes historical and phenomenological methods, incorporating impressive data from interviews and participant-observation, showing how religion is at the core of Yoruba lived experiences and is intricately bound up in all sectors of daily life in Yorubaland and abroad in the diaspora.
Author : Babatunde Olatunji
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592133543
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)
Download or read book The Beat of My Drum written by Babatunde Olatunji and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babatune Olatunji's record album Drums of Passion proclaimed that the time had come for America to recognize Africa's cultural contributions to the music world. Through his many albums and live performances, the Nigerian drummer popularized West African traditional music and spread his message of racial harmony. In this long-awaited autobiography, Olatunji presents his life story and the philosophy that guided him. Olatunji influenced and inspired musicians for more than forty years - from luminaries to music students and the many ordinary people who participated in his drum circles. He writes about rhythm being "the soul of life," and about the healing power of the drum. Ultimately, The Beat of My Drum shows why at the time of his death in 2003, Olatunji had become, according to The New York Times, "the most visible African musician in the United States."
Author : Apostle Joshua Selman
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of Divine Intervention written by Apostle Joshua Selman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction There are five things that will always happen for as long as we live serving the purposes of God in and through this platform. Every time we gather, there must be encounters. An encounter is an experience that makes God and His principles real in your life. There must be transformation- the name given to the process that makes you become like Christ in experience. We must give the Holy Spirit an opportunity to review the love and the power of Jesus through signs, wonders and miracles. There must be impartations of all sorts. An impartation is a transference of spiritual possibilities. Men can carry graces. Our possibilities in this kingdom are defined by the kinds and the levels of graces that we carry. "Thou anointed my head with oil" and I see the proof on my head by looking at my cup; it doesn't anoint my cup . If something is wrong with my cup, the problem is not my cup; the problem is what is on my head. We must always provide an opportunity for fellowship. How good and how pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity. It's like the oil that comes upon the head of Aaron down to his beard and his garment. It says, "There, the Lord has commanded the blessing." What you're about to read will change your life in the name of Jesus Christ. The Lord put a very powerful teaching in my heart and I'm sent to the body of Christ primarily. It's regardless denomination, the doctrinal differences that seem to divide us (it's part of the reasons why He brought us to this city and has projected us to the nations as instruments of unity, balance, dexterity and groove). We are lifted and strengthened in this kingdom not based on our longevity in the faith. Time does not change anything. Time only reveals. A 10-year-old error can still destroy like a 1-year-old error provided it is error. It takes understanding. It says, " for the people that sat in darkness have seen a great light". If you're distracted when the word of God is coming, be sure that it is an attack because it takes focus and concentration to receive. There is an intellectual dimension to the reception of the word. It's not just a spiritual affair alone; your mind has to be active and fruitful. So, even if your spirit is alive and your mind is distracted... That's why sometimes before the message comes, God quickly settles issues like these because some of those issues are the things that distract people from listening. While the word of God is coming, someone is thinking, "How do I battle this issue, how do I battle that issue?"
Author : Theodore M Ludwig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317344308
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Sacred Paths of the West written by Theodore M Ludwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure. Students are encouraged to discover and explore the nature of religious experience by comparing basic themes and issues common to all religions, finding connections with their own personal experiences. By sensitively introducing descriptive material within a comparative thematic structure, this text helps students to understand how each religion provides, for its adherents, patterns and meanings that make up a full way of life.
Author : Elisa Joy White
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001153
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora written by Elisa Joy White and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events--the deportations of Nigerians from Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the uprisings in the Paris suburbs--White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.
Author : Pius Adesanmi
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143528653
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book You're Not a Country, Africa written by Pius Adesanmi and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Pius Adesanmi explores what Africa means to him as an African and as a citizen of the world. Examining the personal and the political, tradition and modernity, custom and culture, Adesanmi grapples with the complexity and contradictions of this vast continent, zooming in most closely on Nigeria, the country of his birth. The inspiration for the title of the collection, You're Not a Country, Africa, comes from a line of poetry: 'You are not a country Africa, you are a concept, fashioned in our minds, each to each'. The Africa fashioned in our minds - with our fears and our dreams - is the Africa that the reader will encounter in these essays. Through narratives and political and cultural reflections, Pius Adesanmi approaches the meaning of Africa from the perspective that you never actually define Africa: rather, it defines you in various contexts and for various people.
Author : ISAIAH OLUWAJEMIRIYE OLATOYAN
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (924 download)
Download or read book RELIGIOUS SYNCRETISM IN AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY written by ISAIAH OLUWAJEMIRIYE OLATOYAN and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity among the African people, whether on the soil of Africa or in diaspora, is perceived and defined differently by different people. For instance, among African traditional religious people and Muslims, Christianity is a foreign religion that must not be allowed to thrive in Africa. To several Africans who profess Jesus, Christianity is good, but it is not adequate and effective enough to handle all human needs. Still, among some Western Christians and missionaries, African Christianity is superficial and lacks total commitment to Christ. Of course, the Africans are a cultural people with profound religious inclinations. Their traditional religion (ATR) has tremendously shaped their worldviews and socioeconomic and political activities. Consequently, when traditional Africans are converted to Christianity, they do not break ties with their traditional religions completely. The examination of relevant biblical texts on syncretism, however, reveals that God condemns the worship of many gods and places a curse on anyone who offers sacrifices to carved images and bows to them in worship. Therefore, this work investigates the root cause of religious syncretism among African people. In the attempt to find answers to why the average African Christian finds it difficult, if not impossible, to abandon his/her traditional religious belief systems completely to embrace Christianity, the author concludes that unless the issues surrounding the African forgotten and secret covenants are exposed and decisively addressed in the light of biblical teaching, syncretism will continue to be a stigma on the fabric of African Christianity. Therefore, to overcome the threats of syncretism in African Christianity, there is a need to establish a sound theological and missiological framework that can address the problems associated with the African worldviews and belief systems. This task must be carried out under the searchlight of Scriptures.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375119534
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Church Missionary Intelligencer written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Author : Ócha'ni Lele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620553449
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Osogbo written by Ócha'ni Lele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By understanding osogbo, the spirits of misfortune, we can better overcome them and return to health and balance in our lives • Explains how misfortune works in this world as living spirits that plague humanity but are also a catalyst for self-development and conscious evolution • Shows that we can overcome osogbo through ebó, sacrifice, and hard work as prescribed by consulting the orishas through the casting of the diloggún • Shares more than 40 ancient African sacred stories about the spirits of osogbo Beginning with the story of his goddaughter's battle with stage IV cancer, Lucumi priest Ócha'ni Lele explains the role of osogbo, or misfortune, in our lives. While everyone seeks blessings in life, undeserved blessings make us weak and lazy. It is tragedy that encourages us to grow and persevere. Exploring the Lucumí beliefs regarding osogbo, he shows that the Lucumí faith is neither fatalistic nor defeatist but healing and life affirming. He shares more than 40 patakís--stories stemming from the ancient Yoruba of West Africa--about the different spirits of osogbo, who like the orishas once walked the earth in human bodies. He explains the place of these spirits within the 256 odu of the diloggún, the divination system used in Santería to receive guidance from the orishas. Lele shows that the spirits of osogbo are not only concepts but also real deities and that we can, if we understand their nature, fight them through ebó, sacrifice, and hard work. He reveals how the osogbos see themselves as entities of misfortune who stand against life and all that is good in the world, but in truth it is misfortune that strengthens us, misfortune that motivates us, and misfortune that brings great evolution to the world. As the author shows, “Without bitterness, one could not know sweetness.” Likewise, without misfortune in our lives, we would never know blessings or what it means to be blessed.
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Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book The Foreign Missionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book The Church Missionary Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Plant Armstrong
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512800074
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Powers of Presence written by Robert Plant Armstrong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly considering African and Upper Paleolithic work, Armstrong demonstrates that concepts of beauty, truth, and excellence are irrelevant in developing the aesthetic of a specific culture. By developing a unique aesthetic typology, he offers a reinterpretation of non-Western art that integrates human consciousness and its reification as art. More than eighty handsome photographs and drawings are included.
Author : Robert D. Pelton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341481
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Trickster in West Africa written by Robert D. Pelton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way the trickster links animality and ritual transformation; culture, sex, and laughter; cosmic process and personal history; divination and social change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way th
Author : Cynthia Egbujo
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1645699811
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Playing the Tribal Card written by Cynthia Egbujo and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of human existence, various cultures, traditions, and languages arose from the building of the Tower of Babel as described in the book of Genesis chapter 11. The diversity of cultures and traditions in the world today have made people serve God through the eyes of man and not the way God want to be truly honored. This book cuts across many religious differences in the service of God, resulting from different cultures and practices of men, cutting across countries like Nigeria, United Kingdom, and the United States. The world, although global, is also a small village and moving from one nation to another can either change the thinking of man through the acquisition of new knowledge or the dethronement of the knowledge already resident in man. A general picture of this book shows how cultural groups started and how traditions of men end up creeping into the church of Christ and dethrones the true laws of God and ends up satisfying the sinful nature of men who are not watchful.
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Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book International Journal of Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
