Autore	Adogbo Michael P
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lagos [Nigeria], : Malthouse Press Ltd., 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (132 p.)
Disciplina	299.6
Soggetto topico	Religion - Study and teaching Religion - History - Study and teaching
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-59350-5 9786613905956 978-8422-94-2 978-8422-92-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter I. Religious Experience and expression; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 What is a Religious experience?; 1.3 The manifestation of the Sacred; 1.4 The object of apprehension in religious experience; 1.5 Indigenous experience of Deity; Conclusion; Chapter II. History of Religions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The primordial nature of religion; 2.3 Stages of religious development; 2.4 The higher religions; 2.5 Conclusion; Chapter III. Early Christian Church to 451 AD; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The formation and growth of the early church 3.3 The church in conflict3.4 Early heresies; 3.5 The Apologists and early Catholic fathers; 3.6 Persecutions and ecumenical councils; 3.7 The church after Nicaea; Chapter IV. Methodological problems in the study of African traditional religions; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The study of African traditional religions; Conclusion; Chapter V God and man in African traditional religions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 God in African traditional religions; 5.3 The worship of God; 5.4 The phenomenon in Urhoboland; Chapter VI. The relevance of the divinities in African traditional religions; 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Focus on African traditional religions6.3 Divinities in Urhobo traditional religion; 6.4 Ancestors as core of Divinity in Urhoboland; 6.5 Orha, Edjorawha and Edjorame; Concluding remarks; Chapter VII. Evil spirits and mysterious forces in Africa; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Evil spirits in Urhobo religion; 7.3 Mysterious forces; 7.4 Redressive or rituals of affliction; Chapter VIII. Pollution in African and Biblical traditions; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The concepts of taboo and pollution in African traditional religions; 8.3 Totams and taboos in Biblical traditions 8.4 Evaluations of taboos in African and Biblical traditionsConcluding remarks; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
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Autore	Nnolim Charles E
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lagos [Nigeria], : Malthouse Press Ltd., c2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina	809.869
Soggetto topico	African literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-59338-6 9786613905833 978-8422-82-9 978-8422-80-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's 11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462080603321

Autore	Nnolim Charles E
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lagos [Nigeria], : Malthouse Press Ltd., c2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina	809.869
Soggetto topico	African literature - History and criticism
ISBN	9786613905833 9781283593380 1283593386 9789788422822 9788422829 9789788422808 9788422802
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's 11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910966010703321