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Author : John Oluwasegun Ojo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Introduction to West African Traditional Religion written by John Oluwasegun Ojo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas E. Thomas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620199
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
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.
Author : Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498204929
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book West African Religion written by Geoffrey Parrinder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478628928
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
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.
Author : J. Ọmọṣade Awolalu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789780183325
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (833 download)
Download or read book West African Traditional Religion written by J. Ọmọṣade Awolalu and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966469281
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (692 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to African Religion (2nd Edition) written by John S. Mbiti and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Oluwasegun Ojo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Understanding West African Traditional Religion written by John Oluwasegun Ojo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : J. M. Assimeng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Religion and Social Change in West Africa written by J. M. Assimeng and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. A. Abioye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Basic Text on West African Traditional Religion written by S. A. Abioye and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. A. Thorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Religions written by S. A. Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an introduction to the variety of African traditional religions, rather than exploring each and every one, this book offers five examples which are believed to be broadly representative. Zulu and Shona systems are chosen to introduce the southern Bantu religions. Ancient hunting and gathering religious approches from the San of equatorial southern Africa and the Mbuti pygmies of the equatorial rain forest are included - they may have influenced the more structured Bantu systems. And, the complex, well-developed religious systems of West Africa are represented by inclusion of the Yoruba.
Author : Kofi Asare Opoku
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book West African Traditional Religion written by Kofi Asare Opoku and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. B. Jacobs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book A Textbook on West African Traditional Religion written by A. B. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199790787
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book African Religions: A Very Short Introduction written by Jacob K. Olupona and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are African religions? African Religions: A Very Short Introduction answers this question by examining primarily indigenous religious traditions on the African continent, as well as exploring Christianity and Islam. It focuses on the diversity of ethnic groups, languages, cultures, and worldviews, emphasizing the continent's regional diversity. Olupona examines a wide range of African religious traditions on their own terms and in their social, cultural, and political contexts. For example, the book moves beyond ethnographic descriptions and interpretations of core beliefs and practices to look at how African religion has engaged issues of socioeconomic development and power relations. Olupona examines the myths and sacred stories about the origins of the universe that define ethnic groups and national identities throughout Africa. He also discusses spiritual agents in the African cosmos such as God, spirits, and ancestors. In addition to myths and deities, Olupona focuses on the people central to African religions, including medicine men and women, rainmakers, witches, magicians, and divine kings, and how they serve as authority figures and intermediaries between the social world and the cosmic realm. African Religions: A Very Short Introduction discusses a wide variety of religious practices, including music and dance, calendrical rituals and festivals, celebrations for the gods' birthdays, and rituals accompanying stages of life such as birth, puberty, marriage, elderhood, and death. In addition to exploring indigenous religions, Olupona examines the ways Islam and Christianity as outside traditions encountered indigenous African religion. He shows how these incoming faith traditions altered the face and the future of indigenous African religions as well as how indigenous religions shaped two world religions in Africa and the diaspora. Olupona draws on archaeological and historical sources, as well as ethnographic materials based on fieldwork. He shows that African religions are not static traditions, but have responded to changes within their local communities and to fluxes caused by outside influences, and spread with diaspora and migration.
Author : E. Bọlaji Idowu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Religion written by E. Bọlaji Idowu and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. N. O. Quarcoopome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789781482335
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (823 download)
Download or read book West African Traditional Religion written by T. N. O. Quarcoopome and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Olupona
Publisher : Paragon House
ISBN 13 : 9780892260799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society written by Jacob Olupona and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once relegated to the realm of "primitive" and stigmatized as "pagan," today there is a new acknowledgment of the importance of African traditional religions, especially in its stress on folk practices, communal values, and personal relationships. This volume of fourteen chapters examines the nature, structure, and significance of African traditional religion(s) as dynamic, changing tradition(s). It analyzes and interprets several significant aspects of African religions and explores their possible contributions to national development and the modernization process. It also examines the impact of social change on African religion today. The contributors are scholars from several disciplines (anthropology, sociology, history of religions, theology, literature and the arts); yet, in analysis and interpretation of their data, they all take transcendence and the sacred in African thought very seriously. The newness of this approach is in treating African traditional religion not as a fossil but rather as one of the most important building blocks of modern African life.
