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Author : Terence O. Ranger,T. O. Ranger,Isaria N. Kimambo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520031792
Author : Isaria N. Kimambo,Terence Ranger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1405005303
Author : Terence O. Ranger,Isaria N. Kimambo
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0435327488
Author : International Association for the History of Religions. Regional Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015047705648
Author : Michael P. Adogbo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789788422235
The slimness of Comparative Historical and Interpretative Study of Religions belies its contents and it is a truly historical and interpretative study of religions in human history. It is specially designed for students in tertiary institutions. Although the topics reflect the current National University Commission (NUC) undergraduate programme in Religious Studies in Nigeria, the work provides a thorough methodological discussion and more on specific themes, historical figures and movements in study of religions. --Book Jacket.
Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0435895915
"African Religions and Philosophy" is a systematic study of the attitudes of mind and belief that have evolved in the many societies of Africa. In this second edition, Dr Mbiti has updated his material to include the involvement of women in religion, and the potential unity to be found in what was once thought to be a mass of quite separate religions. Mbiti adds a new dimension to the understanding of the history, thinking, and life throughout the African continent. Religion is approached from an African point of view but is as accessible to readers who belong to non-African societies as it is to those who have grown up in African nations. Since its first publication, this book has become acknowledged as the standard work in the field of study, and it is essential reading for anyone concerned with African religion, history, philosophy, anthropology or general African studies.
Author : Dr Afe Adogame,Dr Bolaji Bateye,Professor Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409481782
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 : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199808168
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
Author : Theo Sundermeier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3894739371
" ""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 : Stephan Palmié
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226019734
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of the Afro-Atlantic World. Understood largely through its rituals and ceremonies, Santería and related religions have been a challenge for anthropologists to link to a hypothetical African past. But, Palmié argues, precisely by relying on the notion of an aboriginal African past, and by claiming to authenticate these religions via their findings, anthropologists—some of whom have converted to these religions—have exerted considerable influence upon contemporary practices. Critiquing widespread and damaging simplifications that posit religious practices as stable and self-contained, Palmié calls for a drastic new approach that properly situates cultural origins within the complex social environments and scholarly fields in which they are investigated.
Author : Allan Charles Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080753539
In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land. The contributions gathered here by Allan Charles Dawson demonstrate how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, shape group identity, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies. Shrines are physical manifestations of a group's claim to a particular piece of land and are thus markers of identity--they represent, both figuratively and literally, a community's 'roots' in the land it works and lives on. The shrine is representative of a connection with the land at the cosmological and supernatural level and, in terms of a community's or ethnic group's claim to cultivable territory, serves as a reminder to outsiders of ownership. Shrines in Africa explores how African shrines, in all their variable and diverse forms, are more than just spiritual vessels or points of worship--they are powerful symbols of ethnic solidarity, group cohesion, and knowledge about the landscape. Moreover, in ways subtle and nuanced, shrines represent ideas about legitimacy and authenticity in the context of the post-colonial African state.
Author : Emefie Ikenga Metuh
Publisher : Fourth Dimension Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111379017
A historical study of religion, and the causes, effects and responses to religious change in Nigeria. The contributors analyse growth in religion and offer explanations for the massive drift from traditional religions to Christianity and Islam during the colonial and post-colonial periods which resulted in Christian and Muslim groups each constituting over 40% of the entire African population, the most rapid growth in Islam and Christianity in any time in the history of Africa. They trace how these changes transformed traditional religions noting aspects of continuity and discontinuity within them; and assess the impact of the missionaries and conversion, urbanisation and Western education on these traditional religions. The study also considers the relationship between orthodox Islam, dominant in Northern Nigeria, and 'Ahmadiyya' Islam. It assesses the conflicts between different Muslim groups, and Muslims and Christians within the political context of Nigeria. First published in 1985, this is a timely re-issue providing the historical background, necessary to understanding the current issues in Nigeria today and their political impact.
Author : Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030895006
The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly, capturing their dynamics in the present and projecting their sustainability and relevance for the future, this volume is an essential resource for knowledge and understanding of African Traditional religions in the global space of religious traditions.
Author : Molefi Kete Asante,Ama Mazama
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781412936361
Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199790586
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.