African Spirituality Forms, Meanings and Expressions

Name: African Spirituality Forms, Meanings and Expressions
Price: 26.24 USD
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ISBN: 9780824507800

ISBN-10: 0824507800

ISBN-13: 9780824507800

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jacob K. Olupona, Jacob O. K. Oluprona

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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company, The
Publication date: 2/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface to the Series


Foreword



Introduction



Cosmologies and Sacred Knowledge



Some Reflections on African Spirituality




African Shrines as Channels of Communication




The Lake Goddess Uhammiri/Ogbuide: The Female Side of the Universe in Igbo Cosmology




Ancestral Spirituality and Society in Africa




Authority, Agencies, and Performance



Pa Divination: Ritual Performance and Symbolism among the Ngas, Mupun, and Mwaghavul of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria




Some Thoughts on Ideology, Beliefs, and Sacred Kingship among the Edo (Benin) People of Nigeria




Spiritual Beings as Agents of Illness




Witchcrarft and Society




Mami Water in African Religion and Spirituality




Art and Spirituality




Spiritual Foundations of Dagbamba Religion and Culture




African's Encounter with Other Religions



The Task of African Traditional Religion in the Church's Dilemma in South Africa




African Muslim Spirituality: The Symbiotic Tradition in West Africa




Patterns of Islam among Youth in South Africa




Sufism in Africa




Roman North African Christian Spiritualities




Asante Catholicism: An African Appropriation of the Roman Catholic Religion




African Spirituality in the Americas



Forms of African Spirituality in Trinidad and Tobago




The Music of Haitian Vodun




African-derived Religion in the African-American Community in the United States



Contributors


Photographic Credits


Index