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Author | : Charles Ok Onuh |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Owing to their value and strategic importance in the people's mentality and culture, this work proposes the Igbo Rites of Passage as a necessary parameter and a transmitting wave-length for a firm rooting of the christian faith among the Igbos.
Author | : Onwumere A. Ikwuagwu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Download Initiation in African Traditional Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George Nnaemeka Oranekwu |
Publisher | : Iko |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Significant Role of Initiation in the Traditional Igbo Culture and Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the face of the difficult task of inculturating the Christian faith in Igboland, christianizing the Igbo and igbonizing Christianity, this book offers an interesting and inspiring study of Igbo traditional initiation forms in comparison with the Christian sacraments of initiation. Because of its characteristic features and the significant role in Igbo tradition and culture, it proposes traditional Igbo initiation forms as inculturation basis for pastoral catechesis of Christian initiation.
Author | : Chibueze C. Udeani |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9042022299 |
Download Inculturation as Dialogue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although Africa is today often seen, because of its large number of Christians, as the future hope of the Church, a closer examination of African Christianity, however, shows that the Christian faith has not taken deep root in Africa. Many Africans today declare themselves to be Christians but still remain followers of their traditional African religions, especially in matters concerning the inner dimensions of their lives. It is evident that, in strictly personal matters relating to such issues as passage rites and crises, most Africans turn to their African traditional religions. As an incarnational faith, part of the history of Christianity has been its encounter with other cultures and its becoming deeply rooted in some of these cultures. The central question remains: Why has the Christian faith not taken deep root in Africa? This volume is concerned with answering this question.
Author | : Patrick Chukwudezie Chibuko |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Igbo Christian Rite of Marriage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The problems arising from the separate celebrations of traditional marriage and church wedding in the Igbo Church of Nigeria are the main objectives of the proposed Rite. The Igbo Christian man and woman require the traditional marriage and the church wedding to be considered as husband and wife. The important fact is that marriage for the Igbo people, even for some Christians among them, is the traditional marriage. In such traditional marriages today, experience shows that in addition to Christians and Non-christians, the clergy are very often present not only to grace the occasion by their presence, but also to say the opening prayer, prayer over the kola nuts, and sometimes also the closing prayer, and give the blessing. The obvious questions arising from these separate celebrations call for attention and review in the light of the on-going liturgical inculturation and the provisions made by the reformed liturgy of the Second Vatican Council. Is it then possible to evolve a unique Rite whereby the two celebrations can be validly and lawfully celebrated in one ceremony? Such a Rite would be required not only to be fully cultural and truly Christian but above all acceptable by both the culture and the church. The Igbo Christian Rite of Marriage is, therefore, a concrete proposal.
Author | : Austin Echema |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Igbo (African people) |
ISBN | : 3643104197 |
Download Igbo Funeral Rites Today Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Igbo Funeral Rites is about the rigorous and complex nature of death and burial obsequies in Igboland. Analytical as it is descriptive and anthropological as it is theological, the book is an attempt to provide new insights for handling some of the pastoral challenges of Igbo funeral rites. It exhibits admirable maturity by acknowledging the need for flexibility along with harmonization.
Author | : James Leland Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Rites of Passage in Contemporary Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The articles which comprise this book where delivered initially at a conference held at the University of Zimbabwe, 21-24 June 1994, on the of the interaction between Christian religion and traditional African religions. This text demonstrates that the academic study of religion is not only responsive to developments in religious life, but is interested in actively exploring the symbolic structures expressed in Christian and traditional ritual activities. Academic understanding is shown to be interactive with the many factors which compromise meaning within human societies and religious communities.
Author | : Cyprian Chima Uzoma Anyanwu |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Publishing |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Igbo (African people) |
ISBN | : 9780820465821 |
Download The Rites of Initiation in Christian Liturgy and in Igbo Traditional Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Second Vatican Council aims to make the Christian life to command greater appeal and to deepen the faith in the Paschal Mystery among Christians everywhere through very lively celebrations. It therefore gives special attention to the renewal of the liturgy in consideration of the plurality of cultures, languages and customs of particular Churches within Christendom. This study belongs to the area of possible liturgical adaptations and renewals of the Roman rite to accommodate the multicultural reality in the Church. Directives in this regard are given in the Church. Directives in this regard are given in the Council's constitution on the Liturgy, Sacro-sanctum Concilium 37-40. Today, the different contextual engagement with these directives are designated with the word inculturation. For the sake of precision and thorough treatment, this work is geographically restricted to the Igbo land Nigeria which belongs to the English speaking part of West Africa. It makes an extensive investigation into the traditional forms of initiation rites in the pre-Christian Igbo society. Holding to the fundaments of the Christian rites of initiation as well as the true principle for liturgical renewals, it distributes responsibility for the tension between the traditional pre-Christian practice of initiation and the Christian practice as the missionaries of the 19th century introduced it, to crises of cultural identity and the missionaries' inattention to the cultural grammar of the people they wanted to evengelize at all costs. Apart from the problems associated with mass religious ignorance of many Igbos as it is evident in the mushrooming of religious movements in the area, it exposes the biasedattitude in the way the traditional and cultural rites of the Igbos were eliminated by 19th century missionaries, and in the light of the theological intimacy between the Church and her liturgy, it asks for possible ways out as it makes recommendations.
Author | : Edmund Ilogu |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9789004040212 |
Download Christianity and Ibo Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Akuma-Kalu Njoku |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 144387034X |
Download Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Interface between Igbo Theology and Christianity is a timely book that provides new scholarly thinking concerning the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion taking place in the Igbo culture area. This book, a fruit of multidisciplinary conversation among Igbo scholars and Igbophiles, offers concepts, themes, issues, and case studies with deep ethnographic details, some of which do not exist anywhere else in print. It is a major statement of how modern Igbo scholars, social scientists, philosophers, theologians, liturgists, and active pastors and parish priests, understand the intersection of Igbo Traditional Religion and Christianity in postcolonial Nigeria. The editors and authors of the chapters of this book draw from their wealth of experience to offer to students, scholars, researchers, community-based organizations and NGOs, and practitioners in interfaith dialogue a “must have” manual to engage in and develop mutual respect and trust among Christian denominations and between them and Igbo Traditional Religion. This book will serve as a blueprint for a deep dialogue among the Igbo in both city and rural settings, in the context of clan and community life context and in the Christian parish setting. The book will certainly appeal to numerous communities in Africa wishing to share similar local experiences and collective memories, but which do not have the channels to talk about themselves in scholarly writing.