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Author | : Ikechukwu Anthony KANU |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2022-07-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 166559960X |
Download African Eco-Theology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This piece articulates in a theological manner African earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritual practices that are emerging in response to the painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of local and global ecosystems which have for long not received the attention that it deserves. It is in this sense that this Book of Readings titled African Eco-Theology: Meaning, Forms and Expressions will become one of the greatest ornaments and lights in the world of eco-theology as it responds to fundamental questions looming at the corridors of ecological discourses.
Author | : Benjamin Abotchie Ntreh |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2019-08-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532682018 |
Download Essays on the Land, Ecotheology, and Traditions in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book explores how African Christians in Ghana can think eco-theologically about the nexus of mining, waste pollution, water pollution, and land degradation. In 2017, the government of Ghana banned illegal mining and declared war against any activity that does not complement environmental protection and conservation of natural resources. The Christian church needs academic resources to support the campaign against the destruction of the land, water bodies, and environment. The papers presented generate theological imaginations in shaping the political campaign against the destruction of the land and the environment. Reflection on areas related to the theme includes: “The Concept of Land in the Bible”; “The Christian Church and the Galamsey Menace in West Africa”; “The Fulani Cattle Headsmen and Care for the Land”; “The Bible and the Environment: Towards an Agenda for Eco-theology in African Theological Institutions”; “Stewardship of the Land”; “The Menace of Mining in Ghana”; “Destruction of Water Bodies in Ghana”; and “The Menace of Plastic Waste in Ghana.” This volume will serve as a textbook for theological students, the church, and other governmental agencies.
Author | : John Hart |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1118465563 |
Download The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the face of the current environmental crisis—which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions—members of all the world’s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion’s relationship to ecology. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology offers a comprehensive overview of the history and the latest developments in religious engagement with environmental issues throughout the world. Newly commissioned essays from noted scholars of diverse faiths and scientific traditions present the most cutting-edge thinking on religion’s relationship to the environment. Initial readings explore the ways traditional concepts of nature in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and other religious traditions have been shaped by the environmental crisis. Readings then address the changing nature of theology and religious thought in response to the challenges of protecting the environment. Various conceptual issues and themes that transcend individual traditions—climate change, bio-ethics, social justice, ecofeminism, and more—are then analyzed before a final section examines some of the immediate challenges we face in caring for the Earth while looking to the future of religious environmentalism. Timely and thought-provoking, Companion to Religion and Ecology offers illuminating insights into the role of religion in the ongoing struggle to secure the future well-being of our natural world. With a foreword by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and an Afterword by John Cobb
Author | : Ikechukwu Anthony KANU |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2022-07-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1665599634 |
Download African Ecological Spirituality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the face of the emerging consequences of anthropogenic activities in relation to the environment, Africa is today united by the consciousness that individual destinies are caught up with the health of natural systems at the national, regional and continental levels. This Book of Readings on African Ecological Spirituality: Perspectives in Anthroposophy and Environmentalism focuses on scholarly and indigenous perspectives regarding the evolution of eco-spirituality in Africa. It provides answers to fundamental questions that have been looming at the horizon of thought for years on the contribution of African spirituality to ecological discourse.
Author | : J. O. Y. Mante |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Ecology |
ISBN | : |
Download Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Harris, Melanie L. |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608336662 |
Download Ecowomanism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ebenezer Yaw Blasu |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532683634 |
Download African Theocology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There is probably no set of issues of greater importance in the contemporary world than those that are to do with the Earth on which we live and depend. The more alienated we become from it the more we contribute to our own destruction. Christianity's complicity in this destruction is well-documented and hotly debated. Africa can ill afford to fall into the same trap that Western Christianity has in this regard. One senses the urgency of these concerns in Blasu's African Theocology: Studies in African Religious Creation Care. Extremely well-informed in the field, Blasu not only draws on the three major religions in Africa--Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religion--but demonstrates familiarity with the most important recent contributions in the field from Western scholarship. With its emphasis on pedagogics, African Theocology will play a seminal role in the construction of curricula for an African Christian theology of the environment and is sure to be an essential contribution to all libraries in institutions of higher learning.
Author | : Nisbert Taisekwa Taringa |
Publisher | : University of Bamberg Press |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2014-04-17 |
Genre | : Christian ethics |
ISBN | : 3863092104 |
Download Towards an African-Christian Environmental Ethic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a critical comparative study of African (Shona) and Christian attitudes to nature. The purpose of initiating this discussion is to review the existing attitudes to nature in these two religions. This has important implications in an attempt to formulate a pubic environmental ethic in which traditional Shona and Christian adherents participate. This is crucial in the light of the ongoing inequity and ecological imbalance in Zimbabwe.
Author | : Berman, Sidney K. |
Publisher | : University of Bamberg Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3863097874 |
Download Mother Earth, Mother Africa and Biblical Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale |
Publisher | : AOSIS |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1776341724 |
Download Mother Earth, Mother Africa and Theology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The theological role of African women and men in sustainable development and environmental justice strongly emerges in this book. Picking up the theme and metaphor of the fifth pan-African conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (hereafter ‘Circle’), ‘Mother Earth and Mother Africa’, this book titled Mother Earth, Mother Africa and Theology presents original and innovative research by scholarly members and friends of the Circle. The main contribution of the volume is its multi- and trans-disciplinary exploration and reimagining of human relationships to Earth from an African ecofeminist and ecowomanist theological perspective. It engages in critical conversations of re-interpreting and re-imagining African cultural, religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives on gender and the Earth. The aim is to construct Earth-friendly relationships in the face of the growing global environmental crisis. Scholarly voices of African women and men from fields such as Theology, Environmental Law and Policy, Tourism, Agricultural Science and Natural Resources, and Economics are reflected in this book, which consists of three parts: Creation, the Trinity, and Mother Africa; Caring for Mother Africa; and Mother Africa and her daughters’ (in)fertility. Each of the eleven chapters in the volume presents the metaphor of Mother Earth, Mother Africa, and gender relations, with the aim to explore life-affirming, life-enhancing human relationships to Earth from the author’s particular area of specialisation and context.