African Traditions In The Study Of Religion Diaspora And Gendered Societies

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317184188

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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, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies. The book is structured under two main sections. The first provides insights into the interface between Religion and Society. The second features African Diaspora together with Youth and Gender which have not yet featured prominently in studies on religion in Africa. 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 and the new African Diaspora. This book honours his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.

Author : Afeosemime Unuose Adogame,Ezra Chitando,Bolaji Bateye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1315566052

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African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies by Afeosemime Unuose Adogame,Ezra Chitando,Bolaji Bateye Pdf

Author : Afeosemime Unuose Adogame,Ezra Chitando,Bolaji Bateye
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409419716

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African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa by Afeosemime Unuose Adogame,Ezra Chitando,Bolaji Bateye Pdf

This book presents a unique exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. 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. 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 mark his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.

Author : Dr Afe Adogame,Dr Bolaji Bateye,Professor Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409481782

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African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa by Dr Afe Adogame,Dr Bolaji Bateye,Professor Ezra Chitando Pdf

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 : Afe Adogame
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317018643

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The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora by Afe Adogame Pdf

The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the religious landscapes of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their growing presence and public visibility seem to be more robustly captured by the popular media than by scholars of NRMs, historians of religion and social scientists, a tendency that has probably shaped the public mental picture and understanding of the phenomena. This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on individual groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence; their belief systems and ritual practices; their public/civic roles; group self-definition; public perceptions and responses; tendencies towards integration/segregation; organisational networks; gender orientations and the implications of interactions within and between the groups and with the host societies. The book includes contributions from scholars and religious practitioners, thus offering new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined, approached, and interpreted by scholars, policy makers, and media practitioners alike.

Author : Afeosemime U. Adogame
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138546291

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The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora by Afeosemime U. Adogame Pdf

The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the religious landscapes of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their growing presence and public visibility seem to be more robustly captured by the popular media than by scholars of NRMs, historians of religion and social scientists, a tendency that has probably shaped the public mental picture and understanding of the phenomena. This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on individual groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence; their belief systems and ritual practices; their public/civic roles; group self-definition; public perceptions and responses; tendencies towards integration/segregation; organisational networks; gender orientations and the implications of interactions within and between the groups and with the host societies. The book includes contributions from scholars and religious practitioners, thus offering new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined, approached, and interpreted by scholars, policy makers, and media practitioners alike.

Author : Ulrich Berner,Christoph Bochinger
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3447050020

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European Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa by Ulrich Berner,Christoph Bochinger Pdf

This volume comprises case studies of five centuries of European encounters with and imaginations of Africa encompassing her triple religious heritage: African Traditional Religions, Christianity and Islam. The introductory chapters outline the challenges and present overviews; some of them also analyze the early accounts of European travelers and missionaries. The following contributions examine the lasting legacy of the European Enlightenment in employing an ambivalent language of human equality and universalism, while in actual fact consigning Africa to an inferior position. It has been difficult for western scholars to divorce themselves wholly from the perceptions thus established. However, there have been quite different approaches. This is indicated in the papers discussing the role and impact of influential European academics (scholars of religion, theologians, historians and social scientists) during the colonial and postcolonial period. Other contributions examine specific institutional centers of African religious studies in Europe. The concluding chapters critically assess European approaches and their use for the study of religion in Africa from an African perspective.

Author : Afeosemime U. Adogame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1315553775

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The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora [electr by Afeosemime U. Adogame Pdf

Author : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015019579641

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African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society by Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona Pdf

Author : International Association for the History of Religions. Regional Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015047705648

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The Study of Religions in Africa by International Association for the History of Religions. Regional Conference Pdf

Author : Carolyn M. Jones Medine,Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe,Hans D Seibel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137498052

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Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora by Carolyn M. Jones Medine,Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe,Hans D Seibel Pdf

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 : Afe Adogame
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004189140

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Religion Crossing Boundaries by Afe Adogame Pdf

The essays in this volume illustrates the variety and power of predominantly pentecostal-charismatic movements between Western and African religious actors and groups that has developed across the past twenty years. In so doing, it also highlights the dramatic change in global "migration" patterns as a result of relatively inexpensive air travel.

Author : Theo Sundermeier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3894739371

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The Individual and Community in African Traditional Religions by Theo Sundermeier Pdf

" ""The writer has done a careful, scholarly and sensitive and very positive and fair study of African religion, with particular reference to the individual and community. Theo Sundermeier lets Africa speak for itself and on its own terms and in its own categories. The concluding chapter is a necessary reading for all who would be on mission, who would seek to live the ecumenical imperative and care to ensure that the pursuit of a religion does not result in dehumanization and degradation and marginalization of the other person."" Rev. Canon Prof. John S. Pobee, World Council of Churches, Geneva/Switzerland ""This book treats the subject of African religions in a creative and interesting way emphasizing that these religions are genuine, authentic expressions of religiosity on a par with other religions including the so-called world religions. The author provides an excellent account of the nature interdependence between individual, community, society and the natural order, an interdependence which these religions symbolize and express in ritual and belief. Likewise the essentially personal nature of power as conceived in African culture is thoughfully and interestingly analysed. There are many other thought provoking ideas and interpretations in this volume including the deconstruction of the commonly held notions of the distinction between witchcraft and magic. This is a most worthwhile contribution to the study of Africa's traditional religions and I am convinced all those with an interest in Africa who read it will gain much therefrom"". Professor Peter B Clarke, Professor of the History and Sociology of Religion in the University of London at King's College, and formerly Professor of African History at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Theo Sundermeier is Professor of the History of Religion and Missiology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. translated by Elaine Griffiths, Eleanor Jackson "

Author : Afeosemime Unuose Adogame,Ezra Chitando,Bolaji Bateye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1315566044

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African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa by Afeosemime Unuose Adogame,Ezra Chitando,Bolaji Bateye Pdf

Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199790784

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African Religions: A Very Short Introduction by Jacob K. Olupona Pdf

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.