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Author | : Emmanuel Katongole |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802862683 |
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In The Sacrifice of Africa Emmanuel Katongole confronts this painful legacy and shows how it continues to warp the imaginative landscape of African politics and society. He demonstrates the real potential of Christianity to interrupt and transform entrenched political imaginations and create a different story for Africa ù a story of self-sacrificing love that values human dignity and "dares to invent" a new and better future for all Africans. --
Author | : Mbogoni, Lawrence E.Y. |
Publisher | : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9987082424 |
Download Human Sacrifice and the Supernatural in African History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since time immemorial, human beings the world over have sought answers to the vexing questions of their origins, sickness, death and after death; the meaning of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, eclipses of the sun and moon, birth of twins etc. and how to protect themselves from such mysterious events. They invented God and gods and the occult sciences (witch craft, divination and soothsaying) in order to seek the protection of supernatural powers while individuals used them to gain power to dominate others and to accumulate wealth. Human sacrifice was one way in which they sought to expiate the gods for what they believed were punishments for their transgressions. One example, the Ghana Asante Kingdom's very origins are associated with human sacrifice. On the eve of war against Denkyira, individuals volunteered themselves to be sacrificed in order to guarantee victory. Later, human sacrifice in Asante was mainly politically motivated as kings and religious leaders offered human sacrifice in remembrance of their ancestral spirits and to seek their protection against their enemies. The Asante Kingdom is one of several examples included in this study of human sacrifice and ritual killing on the African continent. Case studies include practices in Sierra Leone, Tanzania (Mainland), Zanzibar, Uganda and Swaziland. Advertisements relating to the occult was a common feature of Drum magazine, the popular South African magazine in Southern, Eastern and Central Africa in late years of colonial and early years of postcolonial periods, indicating a wide belief in these practices among the people in these countries? Each case examined is introduced by an expose of folklore that puts in perspective beliefs in the supernatural and how folklore continues to perpetuate them. Through careful study of these select cases, this book highlights general features of human sacrifice which recur with striking uniformity in all parts of sub Saharan Africa, and why they persist until today. He draws upon extensive written sources to expose these practices in other cultures including those in Western societies.
Author | : Luc de Heusch |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780719017162 |
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Author | : Stephen A. Dueppen |
Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 195044631X |
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Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large settlement communities and regional socio-political formations, development of economic specializations, intensification in interregional commercial networks, and the effects of the Black Death pandemic. The extraordinary preservation of architectural units, activity areas and industrial zones provides a unique opportunity to discern the cultural practices that created stratified mounds (tells) in this part of West Africa. Building from a new detailed zooarchaeological analysis and refinements in stratigraphic precision, this book argues that repeated ritual activity was a significant factor in the accumulation of stratified archaeological deposits. The book details consistencies in form and content of discrete loci containing animal bones, food remains, and broken and unbroken objects and suggests that these are the remnants of sequential ancestor shrines created when domestic spaces were converted to tombs or dedicated mortuary monuments were constructed. Continuities and transformations in ancestral rituals at Kirikongo inform on earlier West African ritual practices from the second millennium BC as well as political and social transformations at the site. More broadly, this case study provides new insights on anthropogenic mound (tell) formation processes, social zooarchaeology, material culture theory, historical ontology, and the analysis of ritual and religion in the archaeological record.
Author | : Carol Ann Muller |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226548201 |
Download Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this text, Muller breaks new ground in the study of this changing region and along the way she includes details of her own poignant journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the other side of a divided society.
Author | : Albert I. Baumgarten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004124837 |
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The volume consists of collected papers from Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences examining (1) the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective and (2) alternatives to sacrifice.
Author | : Brian Hayden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108426395 |
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Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
Author | : Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
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Download The African Conception of Sacrifice and Its Relationship with Child Sacrifice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Abstract: Although the practice of human sacrifice is not new in the mythology around sacrifice in Africa, the practice of child mutilation and sacrifice at least in Uganda was just spoken about as fairytale. However events that have unraveled since the late 1990s have shocked the country with real cases of children being mutilated and killed in the context of what is commonly referred to as child sacrifice in Uganda. This paper presents the "African" meaning of the concept sacrifice and how demonstrates how the in African religious theology disassociates itself from murder and mutilation of children's body parts as part of the rituals for healing, dealing misfortunes or even prevention of unfortunate events. There was consensus from our study participants that although historically, there has been human and child sacrifice in the African and Uganda cultural mythology, the actual practice of these vices is a new phenomenon, not recognized and accepted in indigenous/traditional religious theo
Author | : Vincent James Stanzione |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780826329172 |
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Living and working among the Tz'utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlán in highland Guatemala for some fifteen years, Vincent Stanzione has observed, photographed, and participated in their ritual and ceremonial life, which he describes with unique authority in this account of the continuities in Mayan culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. "This book represents both a confirmation and an innovation in the scholarship and field work about the religious imagination and rites of passage of Maya peoples. I know of no book that is as able to a) link the pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary religious practices of these peoples into a coherent narrative, b) combine anthropological/religious studies theory with linguistics and ongoing field work as creatively and c) illuminate the debate between models of 'syncretism' and 'transculturation' about a contemporary ritual cycle as Stanzione's beautifully illustrated work."--David Carrasco, Harvard University
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.