'Biodun J. Ogundayo, Julius O. Adekunle

African Sacred Spaces (eBook, ePUB)

Culture, History, and Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and present points to Africans' continuing recognition of certain natural phenomena and places as sacred. Western influence, the introduction of Christianity and Islam, as well as modernity, have not succeeded in completely obliterating African spirituality and sacred observances, especially as these relate to space in its various iterations. Indeed, Africans, on the continent and in the Diasporas, have responded to the challenges of history, environmentalism, and sustainability with sober and versatile responses in their reverence for sacred space as expressed through a variety of religious, historical, and spiritual practices, as this volume attempts to show.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498567435
• Artikelnr.: 55074675

Autorenporträt

By 'BioDun J. Ogundayo and Julius O. Adekunle - Contributions by Oluwasegun Peter Aluko; Victor Ntui Atom; Amus...

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: African Sacred Places in the Americas Kevin Young Chapter 2:
History and the Sacred: The Royal Tombs of Igboho Julius O. Adekunle
Chapter 3: Rituals and African Space: Funeral Rites and Intergenerational
Transmission of Poverty Donald O. Omagu Chapter 4: Sacred Spaces and Ritual
Performances in Ejagamland of Cameroon Emmanuel Mbah and Tom Victor Ntui
Chapter 5:Masjid: Sacred Space in Nigerian Islam Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe
and Muhammad Kyari Chapter 6: The Metaphysics of Space in Yoruba
Traditional Religion 'BioDun J. Ogundayo Chapter 7: Sacred Spaces:
Mountains in Yoruba Spirituality Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin Chapter 8:
Tradition and Modernity: The Dynamics of the Management of Osun Sacred
Groves Saheed Balogun Amusa Chapter 9: African Sacred Groves and
Sustainability Fortune Sibanda Chapter 10: Space, Art, and Religion in
Changó, el gran putas Hawwkayoo N. Zoggyie Chapter 11: Islam and Ancient
Sacred Places in Hausaland Mukhtar Umar Bunza and Adamu Musa Kotorkoshi
Chapter 12: Sacred Space and Time in an African University Oluwasegun Aluko