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Author : Okot p' Bitek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book African Religions in Western Scholarship written by Okot p' Bitek and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119251486
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.
Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199790582
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book African Religions written by Jacob K. Olupona and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Author : Sara J. Fretheim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498299059
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Kwame Bediako and African Christian Scholarship written by Sara J. Fretheim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a departure from current theologically-focused scholarship on Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako, this book places him within the wider historical continuum of twentieth-century Ghana and reads him as a leading Christian scholar within the African study of African religions. The book traces a variety of influences and figures within this emerging African discourse in Ghana, including aspects of missions and colonial history and the voices of poets, politicians, prophets, and priests. Locating Bediako within this complex twentieth-century matrix, this intellectual history draws upon his published and key unpublished works, including his first masters and doctoral dissertations on Negritude literature, an abiding influence on his later Christian thought and an essential foundation for interpreting this scholar. This book also "reads" the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture as "text" by Bediako, revealing essential components of his intellectual and spiritual itinerary revealed in the Institute's community and curriculum. This approach challenges narrowly-focused theological scholarship on Bediako, while highlighting critical methodological divisions between African, Western, confessional, and non-confessional approaches to the study of religion in Africa. In doing so, it highlights the rich complexity of this emerging African discourse and identifies Bediako as a pioneering African Christian intellectual within this wider field.
Author : Benjamin C. Ray
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Religions written by Benjamin C. Ray and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a portrait of African religious history framed in the religious themes common to the rest of the world. It looks at the traditional religions that provided the philosophical, religious, and ethical basis of African culture. Focusing primarily on traditional African religions and their related myths, rituals, authorities, ethics, and artwork, the book also includes substantial treatment on nationalism, African Islam and Christianity. For anyone who wants to gain an understanding of the relationship between African religion and culture.
Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793630283
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions written by Chammah J. Kaunda and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution, contributorsexplore John Samuel Mbiti’s contributions to African scholarship and demonstrate how he broke through the western glass ceiling of scholarship and made African-informed and African-shaped scholarship a reality. Contributors examine the far-reaching implications of Mbiti’s scholarship, arguing that he shifted the contemporary African Christian landscape and informed global expressions of Christianity. African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions analyzes Mbiti’s scholarship and shows that his theories are malleable and fluid, allowing a new generation of scholars to reinterpret, reconstruct, and further develop his theories. This collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of contemporary African theology and grapple with questions Africans face in the twenty-first century.
Author : Dr Afe Adogame
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409481786
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa written by Dr Afe Adogame and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. The book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Religions; Indigenous Thought and Spirituality; and Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa. This book is to his honour and marks his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.
Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763609
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Imagining Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of historically and geographically situated human ingenuity, cognition, and curiosity—simply put, as the result of human labor, one of the decisive but wholly ordinary ways human beings create the worlds in which they live and make sense of them. "These seven essays . . . display the critical intelligence, creativity, and sheer common sense that make Smith one of the most methodologically sophisticated and suggestive historians of religion writing today. . . . Smith scrutinizes the fundamental problems of taxonomy and comparison in religious studies, suggestively redescribes such basic categories as canon and ritual, and shows how frequently studied myths may more likely reflect situational incongruities than vaunted mimetic congruities. His final essay, on Jonestown, demonstrates the interpretive power of the historian of religion to render intelligible that in our own day which seems most bizarre."—Richard S. Sarason, Religious Studies Review
Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110850079
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Religious Plurality in Africa written by Jacob K. Olupona and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Author : Okot p'Bitek
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 0966020154
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing African Religions written by Okot p'Bitek and published by Diasporic Africa Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: decolonizing African philosophy and religion / Kwasi Wiredu -- 1. Social anthropology and colonialism -- 2. What is tribe? -- 3. The classical European world and Africa -- 4. Superstitions of western man -- 5. Studies in African religions, ca. 1970 -- 6. Dialogue with animism -- 7. Max Muller, the missionaries and African deities -- 8. What then is Jok? -- 9. Hellenization of African deities -- 1. De-Hellenizing the Christian God -- 11. Some conclusions.
Author : Roberto Strongman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478003456
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Queering Black Atlantic Religions written by Roberto Strongman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.
Author : Carolyn M. Jones Medine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498056
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora written by Carolyn M. Jones Medine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world. The volume focuses on the continent, on African identity in globalization, and on African religion in cultural change.
Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856495349
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Re-Inventing Africa written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.
Author : S.A. Nigosian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134913502X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book World Faiths written by S.A. Nigosian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Faiths is a brief introduction to the major world religions. The book provides detailed coverage of the historical development of different religious traditions, and, for each religion, presents issues of faith from the perspective of the believer.
Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956551406
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa: Volume One written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together seven empirically grounded contributions by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. The authors explore the social impact of religious innovation and competition in present day Africa. They represent a selection from an interdisciplinary initiative that made 23 research grants for theologians and social scientists to study Christianity and social change in contemporary Africa. These contributions focus on a variety of dynamics in contemporary African religion (mostly Christianity), including gender, health and healing, social media, entrepreneurship, and inter-religious borrowing and accommodation. The volume seeks to enhance understanding of religions vital presence and power in contemporary Africa. It reveals problems as well as possibilities, notably some ethical concerns and psychological maladies that arise in some of these new movements, notably neo-Pentecostal and militant fundamentalist groups. Yet the contributions do not fixate on African problems and victimization. Instead, they explore sources of African creativity, resiliency and agency. The book calls on scholars of religion and religiosity in Africa to invest new conceptual and methodological energy in understanding what it means to be actively religious in Africa today.
Author : Okot p'Bitek
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435902667
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol written by Okot p'Bitek and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1984 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two African literary works by Okot P'Bitek available together in the African Writers Series.
Author : Olufemi Vaughan
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373874
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Religion and the Making of Nigeria written by Olufemi Vaughan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.
