Metaphysical Africa

Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271088556

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Metaphysical Africa by Michael Muhammad Knight Pdf

The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is a deeply significant and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in Brooklyn in the 1960s, it spread through the prolific production and dissemination of literature and lecture tapes and became famous for continuously reinventing its belief system. In this book, Michael Muhammad Knight studies the development of AAC/NIH discourse over a period of thirty years, tracing a surprising consistency behind a facade of serial reinvention. It is popularly believed that the AAC/NIH community abandoned Islam for Black Israelite religion, UFO religion, and Egyptosophy. However, Knight sees coherence in AAC/NIH media, explaining how, in reality, the community taught that the Prophet Muhammad was a Hebrew who adhered to Israelite law; Muhammad’s heavenly ascension took place on a spaceship; and Abraham enlisted the help of a pharaonic regime to genetically engineer pigs as food for white people. Against narratives that treat the AAC/NIH community as a postmodernist deconstruction of religious categories, Knight demonstrates that AAC/NIH discourse is most productively framed within a broader African American metaphysical history in which boundaries between traditions remain quite permeable. Unexpected and engrossing, Metaphysical Africa brings to light points of intersection between communities and traditions often regarded as separate and distinct. In doing so, it helps move the field of religious studies beyond conventional categories of “orthodoxy” and “heterodoxy,” challenging assumptions that inform not only the study of this particular religious community but also the field at large.

Author : Yongho Nchih Nichodemus
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1497534895

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Theory of African Metaphysics by Yongho Nchih Nichodemus Pdf

African metaphysics briefly is a study of the African world and world-view. As a study, it takes a deep and wide look into the nature of ultimate reality for Africans. It looks into the nature of forces or beings in the African Universe, the relationship between the seen and the unseen. African metaphysics is the key to the understanding and interpretation of life, existence, being, in fact reality as a whole as observed in the African Universe. The African sees his universe as essentially a religious one; a unified whole of visible and invisible and this organic whole of the visible world 'spiritually' blends with the divine invisible world to give the African the ultimate whole of life. The African further recognises that the forces in the universe are in constant motion and each force tends to affect another by its motion. This text brings to light the essentials of the African belief system and also with a visible and comprehensively review of the phenomenon of the forces in his environment and how he manipulates or interact with his nature. It is a must read for Africans philosophers, students, researchers and also those who seek to understand the nature of the African universe in relation to his cultural and social environment. It is a philosophical scholarly masterpiece of elaborate metaphysical nature meant to bring to the lamplight the fact that African has a metaphysical philosophy of its own

Author : Aribiah David Attoe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030911096

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Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics by Aribiah David Attoe Pdf

It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed “African metaphysics” remains a traditional affair, without the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of myths and ethnocentric rigidity. African ideas about the nature of being, God, causality, death, etc., have largely remained the same and unchallenged, mainly due to the hesitancy of some African scholars to question these suppositions or build beyond them. In this book, Aribiah David Attoe presents a unified African metaphysics that first interrogates important notions held by many traditional African thinkers, and then builds upon them to propose a largely materialistic account of African metaphysics. The book re-imagines and reconstructs the idea of God, being, causality and death in African metaphysics, tackling some of the problems associated with these concepts in African thought. It also opens up new vistas of thought, while engaging and encouraging African metaphysicians to explore a previously ignored perspective.

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030724450

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African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya Pdf

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Author : Pieter Hendrik Coetzee,A. P. J. Roux
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415189055

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The African Philosophy Reader by Pieter Hendrik Coetzee,A. P. J. Roux Pdf

This collection provides a thorough introduction to African philosophy, literature, religion and anthropology through twenty-five readings from key thinkers. They discuss topics such as African culture, epistemology, metaphysics and religion, political philosophy, aesthetics, and explore rationality and explanation in an African context.

Author : Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789956726295

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African Belief and Knowledge Systems by Munyaradzi Mawere Pdf

The debate on the existence of African philosophy has taken central stage in academic circles, and academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects of this subject. This book notes that the debate on the existence of African philosophy is no longer necessary. Instead, it urges scholars to demonstrate the different philosophical genres embedded in African philosophy. As such, the book explores African metaphysical epistemology with the hope to redirect the debate on African philosophy. It articulates and systematizes metaphysical and epistemological issues in general and in particular on Africa. The book aptly shows how these issues intersect with the philosophy of life, traditional beliefs, knowledge systems and practices of ordinary Africans and the challenges they raise for scholarship in and on philosophy with relevance to Africa.

Author : Innocent Chilaka Onyewuenyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029308454

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African Belief in Reincarnation by Innocent Chilaka Onyewuenyi Pdf

Author : Rev. Fr. Prof. E.M.P. Edeh C.S.Sp.
Publisher : Author House
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781496918987

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IGBO METAPHYSICS by Rev. Fr. Prof. E.M.P. Edeh C.S.Sp. Pdf

ABSTRACT It is an abridged form of Towards an Igbo Metaphysics in which Fr. Edeh used Igbo Metaphysics to articulate African philosophy. In this work, the concept of being is derived from the Igbo concept of man which is "Mmadi", the good that is. The goodness of being is derived from the fact of creation that means coming from the Supreme good "Chineke". Man is created by God as Chineke and continuously cared for by God as Osebuluwa. With this fact, man is dignified, deserves to be cared for and respected by fellow human beings, the good that are. The special characteristic of African Philosophy is that it is identified with thought and action (EPITAISM). For the fact that African Philosophy sees man as dignified, deserving respect, that makes African Philosophy different from the philosophy that sees man as wolf to man. If this African philosophy is widely accepted, it will certainly lead to the solving the problem of world peace.

Author : Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030696450

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The Question of Being in Western and African Analytic Metaphysics by Grivas Muchineripi Kayange Pdf

The main aim of this book is to discuss fundamental developments on the question of being in Western and African philosophy using analytic metaphysics as a framework. It starts with the two orthodox responses to the question of being, namely, the subject-verb-object language view and the rheomodic language view. In the first view, being is conceived through the analysis of language structure, where it is represented by subjects (particulars), objects, and relations (often universals). In the second view, there are different variations; however, the common idea is that the world's structure is revealed in the root verb of terms. This suggests a holistic and dynamic conception of being, where everything is in a continuous process of action. The book builds on analytic philosophy and explores metaphysical concepts such as space-time, modality, causation, indeterminism versus determinism, and mind and body. The book shows that in both Western and African thought, (i) similarities in different studies confirm that philosophy is a universal activity, (ii) differences within a context and beyond confirm the perspectival nature of human knowledge as individuals attempt to interpret reality, and (iii) language influences the conceptualization of being in a particular area. One of the novel aspects is the development of visual and mathematical African models of space and time.

Author : Tobe Melora Correal
Publisher : Crossing Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307816092

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Finding Soul on the Path of Orisa by Tobe Melora Correal Pdf

In the realm of African spiritual pathways, no tradition is so widely embraced and practiced as the West African religion Orisa. Awakened by her own spiritual journey, Tobe Melora Correal, an initiated priestess in the Yoruba-Lukumi branch of Orisa, guides us along this blessed road. FINDING THE SOUL ON THE PATH OF ORISA provides a fresh look at these ancient teachings and emphasizes introspection and inner work over the outward manifestations of Orisa’s practices. Correal debunks misconceptions surrounding the tradition, drawing us into a lushly textured, Earth-centered spiritual system—a compassionate and useful roadmap for revering God.

Author : Mungwini, Pascah
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781920033507

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Indigenous Shona Philosophy by Mungwini, Pascah Pdf

Some of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent. Mungwini offers a critical reconstruction of indigenous Shona philosophy as an aspect of the African intellectual heritage held hostage by colonial modernity. In this comprehensive work, he lays bare the thoughts of the Shona, who are credited with the founding of the ancient Great Zimbabwe civilisation. Retracing the epistemic thread in the fabric of Shona culture and philosophy, he explores the assumptions that inform their thinking. The exchange of such knowledge is fundamental to the future of humanity.

Author : T Lindsey-Billingsley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794805576

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New Age Bible of Mother Africa (Volumes 1 & 2) by T Lindsey-Billingsley Pdf

The author, T. Lindsey-Billingsley, has compiled a no-nonsense philosophical study guide exploring racial origins, the African origins of humanity, and prehistoric Kemetic influence throughout the world. The main focus of these studies is on the anthropological and physiological makeup of racial groups, with indepth research into both the 'Out of Africa' theories and divine creationism myths. Billingsley supplies concrete evidence to support her conclusions on the true human experience, in lieu of, popular speculation and theory devoid of logic and sound proof. In this, and subsequent volumes, the author will establish a new perspective of thinking that will tempt you to challenge the validity of theological creationism and evolution, whilst substantiating a strong position on intelligent design and extraterrestrial intervention.

Author : Jonathan Kathenge PhD MBA.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781546252702

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Philosophy & Religion by Jonathan Kathenge PhD MBA. Pdf

This book is divided into three parts: Part one deals with introduction to Philosophy, covering primarily ancient historical period which deals with Cosmological questions leading to the birth of Metaphysics as a branch of Philosophy. Part two deals with African philosophy taking into consideration its subject matter from Anthropological and Theological literature. Part three delves into Religious discussion on Sacred Scripture as the main subject matter, covering such thematic issues as; Revelation, Inspiration, Hermeneutics, Sources and Canonicity.

Author : Wilfred Lajul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031545245

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African Philosophic Sagacity in Selected African Languages and Proverbs by Wilfred Lajul Pdf

Author : Isaac E. Ukpokolo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319407968

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Themes, Issues and Problems in African Philosophy by Isaac E. Ukpokolo Pdf

This volume provides the key to a deepened discourse on philosophy in Africa. Available literature and academic practice in African philosophy since the 1960s have largely featured discourses in the areas of origin, general meaning and nature of the discipline, with little attention given to specialized areas. By contrast, this book examines a noticeable shifting focus from such general concerns to more specific subject-matter, in such areas as epistemology, moral philosophy, metaphysics, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy in the light of the African experience. The volume includes specific discourses from expert contributors on the nature, history and scope of African ethics and metaphysics, while also discussing particular themes in African epistemology, philosophy of education, existentialism and political philosophy. Researchers seeking for new perspective on African philosophy will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.