Another world is possible : spiritualities and religions of global darker peoples / / edited by Dwight N. Hopkins and Majorie Lewis

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.89
• Soggetto topico: Black people - Religion; Religions; Spirituality
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HopkinsDwight N LewisMajorie
• Note generali: First published 2009 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-372) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: India; 1 The Untouchable ""Dalits"" of India and their Spiritual Destiny; 2 Dalits in India: Key Problems/Issues and Role of Religion; Part II: Japan; 3 Recovering Jesus for Outcasts in Japan; Part III: Australia; 4 Tjinatjunanyi: Providing a Pathway to Freedom; 5 Spirituality; Part IV: Hawaii; 6 The Hawaiian Situation: An Overview of Hawaii's People, Politics, Religion, Spirituality, and Culture, Yesterday and Today ; Part V: England; 7 Theology, Violence and the ""Other"" ; 8 Another Kind of BlackPart VI: South Africa; 9 ""Impoverished on Harvesting Ground!"": Ruth 3 and African Women in an HIV-Positive South Africa; Part VII: Botswana; 10 HIV+ Feminisms, Postcoloniality and the Global AIDS Crisis; 11 Soliloquy of a Troubled Heart: Trying to Make Sense of Senseless Femicide; Part VIII: Zimbabwe; 12 Ritual and Spirituality among the Shona People; 13 Economic ""Shortage"" as a Theologico-political Problem in Zimbabwe; Part IX: Ghana; 14 ""Poverty is madness"": Some Insights from Traditional African Spirituality and Mental Health ; 15 Spiritual Challenges of Widowhood Symbolism in an African Religio-cultural Setting: A Christian Theological Perspective16 Sex and Sexuality in an African Worldview: A Challenge to Contemporary Realities; Part X: Cuba; 17 Eco-feminism and Yoruba Religion in Cuba: A Proposal for Inter-religious Dialogue; 18 Black People and the Church; Part XI: Jamaica; 19 Social Conditions and Spiritual Solutions in the Caribbean; 20 The Church and the Jamaican Society; Part XII: Brazil; 21 Black Spirituality: The Anchor of Black Lives; 22 Black Heritage in Brazil; Part XIII: USA ; 23 Womanist Theology and Epistemology in the Postmodern U.S. Context24 A Home-place: Self-identity and God in African American Culture; 25 Black Christian Worship: Theological and Biblical Foundations; Endnotes; Select Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: "Another World is Possible: Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker Peoples represents voices of darker skin peoples throughout the world. What they have in common is their mobilizing their own created religions and spiritualities to forge self-identities. Some claim direct links to centuries of indigenous spiritual practices which have survived relatively in tact despite the invasion of foreign religions. Others have appropriated externally introduced religions and greatly modified these belief systems by combining or syncretizing them with indigenous perspectives and practices. All authors indicate the celebration and positive utility of their communities' spiritualities and religions. Without them, not only would individuals have died, but entire cultures and contexts would have perished. Thus, religion and spirituality suggest survival and pragmatic purposes. From creation narratives to Trickster heroes and heroines, spirituality and religion incarnate meaning, as well as fashion meaning so that humans can make surviving and thriving sense of the ecology and all breathing realities. The gods, God, and ancestors give life to peoples and their cultures, ecologies, and economies, all in the service of aiding the human community to be more fully human as servants to what spiritualities and religions have facilitated on earth. This book speaks to the progressive role of spiritualities and religions for today. In that sense, it is a gift to the world from the darker skin peoples globally."--Back cover.
• Titolo autorizzato: Another world is possible
• ISBN: 1-315-71094-3; 1-322-50982-4; 1-317-49046-0; 1-84553-731-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456416003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cross cultural theologies.