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African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo

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

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

Death and the Invisible Powers

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

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

The Mbongi

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

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

Rituals of Resistance

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

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

Self- Healing Power and Therapy

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

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

African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry

Author : Ras Michael Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139561049
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry written by Ras Michael Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes, such as establishing new communities and incorporating American forms of Christianity into an African-based spirituality. This book illuminates how people of African descent engaged the spiritual landscape of the Lowcountry through their subsistence practices, religious experiences and political discourse.

Flash of the Spirit

Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307874338
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Flash of the Spirit written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

Kindezi

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

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Book Synopsis Kindezi by : Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

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

Simba Simbi

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

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

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

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

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

Introduction to Black Studies

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

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

Principles of Life

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

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

Kongo Across the Waters

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

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

Antoine Lavoisier

Author : Lynn Van Gorp
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 1433391112
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Antoine Lavoisier written by Lynn Van Gorp and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine Lavoisier has been called the founder of modern chemistry. The French scientist is most remembered for developing the scientific method, which is a careful, step-by-step process for proving or disproving something.

Black Magic

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

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

Spiritual Path, Sacred Place

Author : Thomas Barrie
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781570620058
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Path, Sacred Place written by Thomas Barrie and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture has always been more than mere shelter--it expresses some of the most fundamental and universal aspects of human existence. Through an in-depth survey of religious buildings and sacred sites around the world--from Japanese Zen temples to the Stonehenge-like structures of England--the author shows how sacred architecture symbolizes and recapitulates the spiritual quest.

The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Author : Malidoma Patrice Some
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 087477991X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Healing Wisdom of Africa written by Malidoma Patrice Some and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.