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Africa's Social and Religious Quest
- A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation
Engelsk
Bogcover for Africa's Social and Religious Quest af Randee Ijatuyi-Morphe, 9780761862673
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
646
ISBN-13:
9780761862673
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0761862676
Udg. Dato:
30 jan 2014
Størrelse i cm:
22,6 x 15,3 x 3,8
Oplagsdato:
30 jan 2014
Forfatter(e):

Africa's Social and Religious Quest

- A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation
Engelsk
Paperback 2014
Format:

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This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors (e.g., colonization/slavery vs. leadership/cultural values), this study accounts more comprehensively for emergent issues shaping this situation. The situation reflects a gamut of problems in traditional African religion and material culture, which hitherto defines African communality, polities, and destinies vis-à-vis the cosmos and nature. Thus, African religion and communities, each with its own attendant values, do not operate by critical engagement with larger issues of society and civilization, especially those shaped by the advent of (post-) modernity. Rather, they operate via adaptation. The communal drive for natural and social harmony inevitably produces a preservationist view of culture (“leaving things as they are”). This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
646
ISBN-13:
9780761862673
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0761862676
Udg. Dato:
30 jan 2014
Størrelse i cm:
22,6 x 15,3 x 3,8
Oplagsdato:
30 jan 2014
Forfatter(e):
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