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Author | : Gwinyai H. Muzorewa |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1620323109 |
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African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their origins back before the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Monotheism, he maintains, is the ancient view of God, ubiquitous across the continent of Africa; indeed, monotheism comes "out of Africa." The book challenges the way that the idea of God has been manipulated by Eurocentric agendas, by colonizers, enslavers, and empire builders, all of whom were using God-talk to achieve their own personal ends. In African thinking, the God concept is guided by a sense of the presence of the all-pervasive and omnipresent God, which has instilled in the people a sense of respect for life at all costs. Thus, respect is not based on a commandment or on fear but on a propensity for affinity.
Author | : John Wesley Zwomunondiita Kurewa |
Publisher | : Upper Room Books |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0881776564 |
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Worldwide scholarship has established the fact that Africa is the cradle land of humanity. Dr. Kurewa promotes the theory that African Religion could very easily have been the proto-religion of humanity, and a religion from which other monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam have their roots. The author shifts the traditional African historical studies stance of looking at Africa from Egypt alone, and instead looks at Africa from inside Africa. Dr. Kurewa invites a debate regarding our understanding of African Religion, the indigenous religion of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa today.
Author | : Yosef Ben-Jochannan |
Publisher | : Lushena Books |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download African Origins of the Major World Religions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Featuring Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Charles S. Finch,Modupe Oduyoye, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Wayne B.,Chandler.,.
Author | : Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | : Leonardo Paolo Lovari |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8898301790 |
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The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.
Author | : James K. Hoffmeier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199792143 |
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Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt. His odd appearance and his preoccupation with worshiping the sun disc Aten have stimulated academic discussion and controversy for more than a century. Despite the numerous books and articles about this enigmatic figure, many questions about Akhenaten and the Atenism religion remain unanswered. In Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism, James K. Hoffmeier argues that Akhenaten was not, as is often said, a radical advocating a new religion, but rather a primitivist: that is, one who reaches back to a golden age and emulates it. Akhenaten's inspiration was the Old Kingdom (2650-2400 B.C.E.), when the sun-god Re/Atum ruled as the unrivaled head of the Egyptian pantheon. Hoffmeier finds that Akhenaten was a genuine convert to the worship of Aten, the sole creator God, based on the Pharoah's own testimony of a theophany, a divine encounter that launched his monotheistic religious odyssey. The book also explores the Atenist religion's possible relationship to Israel's religion, offering a close comparison of the hymn to the Aten to Psalm 104, which has been identified by scholars as influenced by the Egyptian hymn. Through a careful reading of key texts, artworks, and archaeological studies, Hoffmeier provides compelling new insights into a religion that predated Moses and Hebrew monotheism, the impact of Atenism on Egyptian religion and politics, and the aftermath of Akhenaten's reign.
Author | : Jacob K. Olupona |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199790582 |
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This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Author | : Gwinyai H. Muzorewa |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1630875546 |
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African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their origins back before the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Monotheism, he maintains, is the ancient view of God, ubiquitous across the continent of Africa; indeed, monotheism comes "out of Africa." The book challenges the way that the idea of God has been manipulated by Eurocentric agendas, by colonizers, enslavers, and empire builders, all of whom were using God-talk to achieve their own personal ends. In African thinking, the God concept is guided by a sense of the presence of the all-pervasive and omnipresent God, which has instilled in the people a sense of respect for life at all costs. Thus, respect is not based on a commandment or on fear but on a propensity for affinity.
Author | : Gwinyai H. Muzorewa |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2000-04-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1579103391 |
Download The Origins and Development of African Theology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Origins and Development of African theology is a very informative survey of African theology over approximately the last twenty years. The author is widely read on the subject, as far as English publications go, and highlights the salient issues with balanced objectivity. The literature, both as discussed in the substance of the book and in the bibliography, is also a valuable source for further study of African theology. John Mbiti, author of Prayers of African Religion
Author | : Kirk Lougheed |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781009524933 |
Download African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are typically recognized as the world's major monotheistic religions. However, African Traditional Religion is, despite often including lesser spirits and gods, a monotheistic religion with numerous adherents in sub-Saharan Africa; it includes the idea of a single most powerful God responsible for the creation and sustenance of everything else. This Element focuses on drawing attention to this major world religion that has been much neglected by scholars around the globe, particularly those working in the West or Northern Hemisphere. It accomplishes this primarily by bringing it into conversation with topics in the Anglo-American philosophy of religion.
Author | : Yosef Ben-Jochannan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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