West African Religion
Author | : Geoffrey Parrinder |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498204929 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Parrinder |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498204929 |
Author | : Robert B. Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
West African Religious Traditions provides a unique and accessible way for readers to understand the dynamics and structures of traditional African religion, and to see its resonances in African-American religious life today. Focusing on the Akan of Ghana, this book is the result of the author's lifetime of close collaboration with Ghanaians at all levels of that West African nation. West African Religious Traditions is a remarkable entree into a fascinating world of African religion and culture. Fisher has lived and taught in Ghana and brings to his writing both love for Africa and the keen eye of a trained liturgist who knows the importance of grounding his statement of principles in concrete observations of song, dance, ceremonies, and recitations of mythic narratives. Ghanaians have been involved at every stage of the writing and re-writing of this book, helping to clarify the material. The result is an up-to-date, well researched, and student-ready volume, whose study questions and bibliography make it ideal for classroom use.
Author | : J. Ọmọṣade Awolalu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Laura S. Grillo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351260707 |
Religions in Contemporary Africa is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the three main religious traditions on the African continent, African indigenous religions, Christianity and Islam. The book provides a historical overview of these important traditions and focuses on the roles they play in African societies today. It includes social, cultural and political case studies from across the continent on the following topical issues: Witchcraft and modernity Power and politics Conflict and peace Media and popular culture Development Human rights Illness and health Gender and sexuality With suggestions for further reading, discussion questions, illustrations and a list of glossary terms this is the ideal textbook for students in religion, African studies and adjacent fields approaching this subject area for the first time.
Author | : Lamin Sanneh |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608331490 |
Author | : John Oluwasegun Ojo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. A. Abioye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Geoffrey Parrinder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Hellweg |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226326543 |
In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Côte d’Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people’s protectors as part of a movement they called Benkadi. These men were dozos—hunters skilled in ritual sacrifice—and they applied their hunting and occult expertise, along with the ethical principles implicit in both forms of knowledge, to the tracking and capturing of thieves. Meanwhile, as Benkadi emerged, so too did the ethnic, regional, and religious divisions that would culminate in Côte d’Ivoire’s 2002–07 rebellion. Hunting the Ethical State reveals how dozos worked beyond these divisions to derive their new roles as enforcers of security from their ritual hunting ethos. Much as they used sorcery to shape-shift and outwit game, they now transformed into unofficial police, and their ritual networks became police bureaucracies. Though these Muslim and northern-descended men would later resist the state, Joseph Hellweg demonstrates how they briefly succeeded at making a place for themselves within it. Ultimately, Hellweg interprets Benkadi as a flawed but ingenious and thoroughly modern attempt by non-state actors to reform an African state.
Author | : Edward Geoffrey Parrinder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |