African belief and knowledge systems [[electronic resource] ] : a critical perspective / / Munyaradzi Mawere |
Autore | Mawere Munyaradzi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Mankon, Bamenda, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (138 p.) |
Disciplina | 121.096 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-31011-2
9956-726-28-1 9786613310118 9956-726-29-X 9956-726-39-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One; Defining Metaphysics; The Sad History of Metaphysics; Earlier Positivism; Metaphysics Rejected; The Indispensability of Metaphysics; Metaphysics a Winner? : A Critical Appraisal; Notes; Chapter Two.; Uncovering African Metaphysics; African Metaphysics' Struggle for Recognition; Beneath African Traditional Culture; The Continued Relevance of African Metaphysics; The Compatibility of African and Western Metaphysics; Notes; Chapter Three; Ontology and Concepts in African Metaphysics
The Concept of Being in African MetaphysicsThe Conception of Person in African Metaphysics; Causality and the Two Worlds of Africa; The Conception of Time in African Metaphysical Discourse; Notes; Chapter Four; The Nexus between African Metaphysics and Indigenous Epistemologies; Indigenous Knowledge System as African Epistemology; African Epistemology and the Fallacy of Science; The Persisting Link between African Epistemology and African Metaphysics; Notes; Chapter Five; African Indigenous Epistemologies; Taboos as African Epistemology System; The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Ngozi Metaphysical Epistemologies Enshrouded in Runyoka and RukwaWitchcraft as Indigenous Metaphysical Epistemology; Notes; Chapter Six; African Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Categorizing African Ways of Knowing; The Supernatural Way of Knowing; Divination; Revelation and Faith; The Natural Way; Paranormal; On Behalf of African Metaphysical Epistemology; Notes; Back cover |
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African belief and knowledge systems [[electronic resource] ] : a critical perspective / / Munyaradzi Mawere |
Autore | Mawere Munyaradzi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Mankon, Bamenda, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (138 p.) |
Disciplina | 121.096 |
ISBN |
1-283-31011-2
9956-726-28-1 9786613310118 9956-726-29-X 9956-726-39-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One; Defining Metaphysics; The Sad History of Metaphysics; Earlier Positivism; Metaphysics Rejected; The Indispensability of Metaphysics; Metaphysics a Winner? : A Critical Appraisal; Notes; Chapter Two.; Uncovering African Metaphysics; African Metaphysics' Struggle for Recognition; Beneath African Traditional Culture; The Continued Relevance of African Metaphysics; The Compatibility of African and Western Metaphysics; Notes; Chapter Three; Ontology and Concepts in African Metaphysics
The Concept of Being in African MetaphysicsThe Conception of Person in African Metaphysics; Causality and the Two Worlds of Africa; The Conception of Time in African Metaphysical Discourse; Notes; Chapter Four; The Nexus between African Metaphysics and Indigenous Epistemologies; Indigenous Knowledge System as African Epistemology; African Epistemology and the Fallacy of Science; The Persisting Link between African Epistemology and African Metaphysics; Notes; Chapter Five; African Indigenous Epistemologies; Taboos as African Epistemology System; The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Ngozi Metaphysical Epistemologies Enshrouded in Runyoka and RukwaWitchcraft as Indigenous Metaphysical Epistemology; Notes; Chapter Six; African Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Categorizing African Ways of Knowing; The Supernatural Way of Knowing; Divination; Revelation and Faith; The Natural Way; Paranormal; On Behalf of African Metaphysical Epistemology; Notes; Back cover |
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African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change / Ezra Chitando, Ernst M. Conradie, Susan M. Kilonzo |
Autore | Chitando Ezra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 201/.65095 |
Collana | Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Social sciences |
ISBN |
9781003147909
1003147909 9781000587586 1000587584 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Ezra Chitando -- African traditional religion and climate change : perspectives from Zimbabwe / Tabona Shoko -- The climate crisis : mitigation and control through Emaswati indigenous knowledge / Sonene Nyawo -- The nexus between indigenous beliefs on environment and climate change adaptation amongst the Sengwer in Embobut Forest, Kenya / Loreen Maseno & King'asia Mamati -- An African ecofeminist appraisal of the value of indigenous knowledge systems in responding to environmental degradation and climate change / Lilian C. Siwila -- Women, indigenous knowledge systems and climate change in Kenya / Susan Mbula Kilonzo -- Putting words into action : the role of the church in addressing climate change in Ghana / Beatrice Okyere-Manu and Stephen Nkansah Morgan -- The mainline churches and climate change in Uganda / David Andrew Omona -- An overview of the response of Catholics in Africa to the Laudato Si's call for creation care / George C. Nche -- Youth and climate change in the United Church of Zambia / Damon Mkandawire -- Hinduism and climate change in Africa / Elizabeth Pulane Motswapong -- Risk reduction interventions, building resilience and adaptation to climate change in northeastern Kenya : a review of the response by the Islamic Relief Worldwide / Hassan Juma Ndzovu -- The religio-spiritual and sacred dimensions of climate-induced conflicts : a research agenda / Joram Tarusarira and Damaris S. Parsitau -- African religious leaders and climate change financing / Veronica Nonhlanhla Gundu-Jakarasi -- Climate change as a multi-layered crisis for humanity / Ernst M. Conradie. |
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African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora and gendered societies : essays in honour of Jacob Kehinde Olupona / / edited by Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.9669 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AdogameAfeosemime U <1964-> (Afeosemime Unuose)
BateyeBolaji ChitandoEzra OluponaJacob K <1951-> (Jacob Kehinde) |
Collana | Vitality of Indigenous Religions |
Soggetto topico |
Religion - Social aspects - Nigeria
Religion - Social aspects - Africa Women and religion - Africa African diaspora - Religious aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-317-18418-1
1-317-18417-3 1-315-56605-2 1-283-90201-X 1-4094-4615-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : African traditions in the study of religion in Africa : contending with gender, the vitality of indigenous religions and diaspora / Ezra Chitando, Afe Adogame, Bolaji Bateye -- ch. 1. Approaches to peacemaking in Africa : obuntu perspectives from Western Kenya / Lucas Nandih Shamala -- ch. 2. Religious pluralism and secularization in the Nigerian religious sphere / Danoye Oguntola Laguda -- ch. 3. Faith, spiritualism and materialism : understanding the interfaces of religion and economy in Nigeria / Olutayo Adesina -- ch. 4. Towards a civil religion in Nigeria / Musa Gaiya -- ch. 5. The tradition of ancestral veneration manifesting in national symbols : a study of its implication for national integration and moral transformation in Nigeria / Kehinde Jacob Ayantayo -- ch. 6. The concept of expiatory sacrifice in the early Church and in African indigenous religious traditions / Samson A. Fatokun -- ch. 7. Researching African immigrant religions : boundaries, belonging and access / Abel Ugba -- ch. 8. Áìní obìnrin kò seé dáké lásán, bí a dáké lásán, enu níí yo ni : women's leadership roles in Aládurà churches in Nigeria and the USA / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Elisha Renne -- ch. 9. The place of second-generation youth in West Indian pentecostalism in the diaspora--New York and London / Janice McLean -- ch. 10. Religion and masculinities in Africa : an opportunity for Africanization / Ezra Chitando -- ch. 11. Rethinking women, nature and ritual purity in Yoruba religious traditions / Bolaji Bateye -- ch. 12. Partnership and the exercise of power in Nigerian churches / Dorcas Akintunde -- ch. 13. The Northern Nigerian Muslim woman : between economic crisis and religious puritanism / Oluwakemi Adesina. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453142603321 |
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African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora and gendered societies : essays in honour of Jacob Kehinde Olupona / / edited by Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.9669 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AdogameAfeosemime U <1964-> (Afeosemime Unuose)
BateyeBolaji ChitandoEzra OluponaJacob K <1951-> (Jacob Kehinde) |
Collana | Vitality of Indigenous Religions |
Soggetto topico |
Religion - Social aspects - Nigeria
Religion - Social aspects - Africa Women and religion - Africa African diaspora - Religious aspects |
ISBN |
1-4724-0429-7
1-317-18418-1 1-317-18417-3 1-315-56605-2 1-283-90201-X 1-4094-4615-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : African traditions in the study of religion in Africa : contending with gender, the vitality of indigenous religions and diaspora / Ezra Chitando, Afe Adogame, Bolaji Bateye -- ch. 1. Approaches to peacemaking in Africa : obuntu perspectives from Western Kenya / Lucas Nandih Shamala -- ch. 2. Religious pluralism and secularization in the Nigerian religious sphere / Danoye Oguntola Laguda -- ch. 3. Faith, spiritualism and materialism : understanding the interfaces of religion and economy in Nigeria / Olutayo Adesina -- ch. 4. Towards a civil religion in Nigeria / Musa Gaiya -- ch. 5. The tradition of ancestral veneration manifesting in national symbols : a study of its implication for national integration and moral transformation in Nigeria / Kehinde Jacob Ayantayo -- ch. 6. The concept of expiatory sacrifice in the early Church and in African indigenous religious traditions / Samson A. Fatokun -- ch. 7. Researching African immigrant religions : boundaries, belonging and access / Abel Ugba -- ch. 8. Áìní obìnrin kò seé dáké lásán, bí a dáké lásán, enu níí yo ni : women's leadership roles in Aládurà churches in Nigeria and the USA / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Elisha Renne -- ch. 9. The place of second-generation youth in West Indian pentecostalism in the diaspora--New York and London / Janice McLean -- ch. 10. Religion and masculinities in Africa : an opportunity for Africanization / Ezra Chitando -- ch. 11. Rethinking women, nature and ritual purity in Yoruba religious traditions / Bolaji Bateye -- ch. 12. Partnership and the exercise of power in Nigerian churches / Dorcas Akintunde -- ch. 13. The Northern Nigerian Muslim woman : between economic crisis and religious puritanism / Oluwakemi Adesina. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779311803321 |
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Africas of the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions / / edited by Stephan Palmié |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 299.6097 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PalmiéStephan |
Collana | Studies of religion in Africa : supplements to the journal of religions in Africa |
Soggetto topico | Afro-Caribbean cults |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-06064-7
9786613060648 90-474-3270-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman -- African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomblé / Elina Hartikainen -- Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459546303321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 | ||
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Africas of the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions / / edited by Stephan Palmié |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 299.6097 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PalmiéStephan |
Collana | Studies of religion in Africa : supplements to the journal of religions in Africa |
Soggetto topico | Afro-Caribbean cults |
ISBN |
1-283-06064-7
9786613060648 90-474-3270-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman -- African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomblé / Elina Hartikainen -- Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792127803321 |
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Black Religion and Aesthetics [[electronic resource] ] : Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora / / by A. Pinn |
Autore | Pinn A |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2009.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina |
200.89/96
200.8996 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PinnAnthony B |
Soggetto topico |
Religion and sociology
Ethnology—Africa Religion Culture—Study and teaching African Americans Christianity Sociology of Religion African Culture Religious Studies, general Regional and Cultural Studies African American Culture |
ISBN |
1-282-55701-7
9786612557019 0-230-62294-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Black Labyrinth, Aesthetics, and Black Religion; Part 1 North and South America; Part 2 The Caribbean; Part 3 Europe; Part 4 Africa; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792328203321 |
Pinn A
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Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World [[electronic resource] /] / by J. Noel |
Autore | Noel J |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2009.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.8996 |
Collana | Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice |
Soggetto topico |
Religion—History
Ethnicity African Americans Religion—Philosophy History of Religion Ethnicity Studies African American Culture Philosophy of Religion |
ISBN |
1-282-50783-4
9786612507830 0-230-62081-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Studying black religion : contacts/exchanges and continuities/discontinuities -- The age of discovery and the emergence of the Atlantic world -- The imagination of matter in the Atlantic world's political economy -- Being, nothingness, and the "signification of silence" in African American religious consciousness -- Epistemologies opaque : conjuring, conjecture, and the problematic of Nat Turner's Biblical hermeneutic -- The mulatto as material/sexual site of modernity's contacts and exchanges -- "The signification of silence" revisited : African American art and hermeneutics -- The meaning of the moan and significance of the shout in Black worship and culture and memory and hope -- The salsa/jazz/blues idiom and Creolization in the Atlantic world. |
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Noel J
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Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, Carolyn M. Jones Medine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Religion and sociology
Christianity Ethnology-Africa Religion Islam Religions Sociology of Religion African Culture Religious Studies, general Comparative Religion |
ISBN | 1-137-49805-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Religious traditions in Africa: an overview of origins, basic beliefs and practices / Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe -- Modern trends in the teaching of African religion in the 21st century: conceptual decolonization / Rotimi Williams Omotoye -- African religion in 21st century and the search for philosophical relevance / Francis Adewale Olajide -- African religious movements and pentecostalism: the model of Ijo-Orunmila, Ato / Oguntola Oye-Laguda -- African religion and health care delivery in Africa / Kelvin Onongha -- Some ethical reflections on African indigenous religion and Christianity / Rotimi Williams Omotoye -- Christianity in contemporary African religious space / Pius Oyeniran Abioje -- Islam in contemporary African society / R. Ibrahim Adebayo -- African derived religions in diaspora: an overview / M. I. Oguntoyinbo-Atere -- Art and music in African derived diaspora religions / Adeoluwa Okunade -- Sojourner Truth, hybrid identity, and multi-vocal text / Carolyn M. Jones Medine -- Womanist spirituality: legacies of freedom / Melanie L. Harris -- Initiation and possession in Santería, Candomblé, and Voudou / Umesh Patel -- Mythology of rituals and sacrifices in African-derived diaspora religions / Osei A. Mensah -- Socio-religious agencies of Santería religions in the United States of America / Robert Y. Owusu -- Modern legal issues in the practice of African diaspora religions / Danielle Boaz -- African religious systems in the context of world religions: challenges for the American scholars / Maha Marouan -- African initiated churches and African immigrants in the United States: a model in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America (RCCGNA) / Ibigbolade Aderibigbe -- Islamic communities in the United States: issues of religion and political identity / Yushau Sodiq. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797768503321 |
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