This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.
This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.
Religion, Anthropology, and the Bible in Africa (RABA) List of Figures Foreword Preface Acknowledgments DIVISION ONE: PROLEGOMENA AND OTHER MATTERS ARISING! PART ONE: IN PURSUIT OF LIFE AND WHOLENESS 1. On Identifying and Signifying a Quest DIVISION TWO: CULTURE AND RELIGION IN AFRICAN SOCIETY PART TWO: PROTECTION AND POWER 2. Personal and Communal Stake 3. The Ancestoral Source 4. Social Ferment and Human Machinations 5. Mythology, Magic and Ritual 6. Excursus: Witchcraft Discourse and Interpretation PART THREE: SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE 7. Popular (or, Folk) Religion 8. Customs and Ceremonies 9. Prayer and Providence 10. African Pentecostalism and the Miraculous 11. Religion and Social Control DIVISION THREE: POLITICAL/ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PART FOUR: COMMUNAL KINSHIP AND THE INDIVIDUAL 12. Communality and the Person 13. Cultural and Moral Traditions 14. Patrimonialism and Procreationism 15. Nature and Environmental Forces 16. Human Dignity/Equality and the Person PART FIVE: HUMAN OPPRESSION AND ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT 17. Colonization and Slavery 18. Women, Culture and Liberation 19. Poverty, Wealth and Development 20. Money, Market and Prosperity 21. Social and Cultural (Or, the Genesis) Mandate DIVISION FOUR: RELIGION, SOCIAL HISTORY AND ETHICS PART SIX: MORALITY, ETHICS AND THE GOOD LIFE 22. African Weltanschauung (Worldview) and Morality 23. The Good Life in (African) Religious Tradition 24. African Cultural Values and Submergence of Virtue 25. Religion, Culture and African Social Ethics 26. Social History, Progress and Moral Modern Society DIVISION FIVE: GOD, HUMANKIND AND THE WORLD PART SEVEN: ISSUES DETERMINING THE QUEST 27. God and the World 28. Humankind and History 29. Salvation and Selfhood DIVISION SIX: THE QUEST AND THE SITUATION REVISITED PART EIGHT: UNDERSTANDING AFRICA'S QUEST 30. The End of a Quest: Critical Reflections Select Bibliography Index About the Author
Religion, Anthropology, and the Bible in Africa (RABA) List of Figures Foreword Preface Acknowledgments DIVISION ONE: PROLEGOMENA AND OTHER MATTERS ARISING! PART ONE: IN PURSUIT OF LIFE AND WHOLENESS 1. On Identifying and Signifying a Quest DIVISION TWO: CULTURE AND RELIGION IN AFRICAN SOCIETY PART TWO: PROTECTION AND POWER 2. Personal and Communal Stake 3. The Ancestoral Source 4. Social Ferment and Human Machinations 5. Mythology, Magic and Ritual 6. Excursus: Witchcraft Discourse and Interpretation PART THREE: SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE 7. Popular (or, Folk) Religion 8. Customs and Ceremonies 9. Prayer and Providence 10. African Pentecostalism and the Miraculous 11. Religion and Social Control DIVISION THREE: POLITICAL/ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PART FOUR: COMMUNAL KINSHIP AND THE INDIVIDUAL 12. Communality and the Person 13. Cultural and Moral Traditions 14. Patrimonialism and Procreationism 15. Nature and Environmental Forces 16. Human Dignity/Equality and the Person PART FIVE: HUMAN OPPRESSION AND ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT 17. Colonization and Slavery 18. Women, Culture and Liberation 19. Poverty, Wealth and Development 20. Money, Market and Prosperity 21. Social and Cultural (Or, the Genesis) Mandate DIVISION FOUR: RELIGION, SOCIAL HISTORY AND ETHICS PART SIX: MORALITY, ETHICS AND THE GOOD LIFE 22. African Weltanschauung (Worldview) and Morality 23. The Good Life in (African) Religious Tradition 24. African Cultural Values and Submergence of Virtue 25. Religion, Culture and African Social Ethics 26. Social History, Progress and Moral Modern Society DIVISION FIVE: GOD, HUMANKIND AND THE WORLD PART SEVEN: ISSUES DETERMINING THE QUEST 27. God and the World 28. Humankind and History 29. Salvation and Selfhood DIVISION SIX: THE QUEST AND THE SITUATION REVISITED PART EIGHT: UNDERSTANDING AFRICA'S QUEST 30. The End of a Quest: Critical Reflections Select Bibliography Index About the Author
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