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Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs (Paperback)
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Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora
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Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious
Beliefs addresses the African consciousness and nuances of
eschatological beliefs as part and parcel of the holistic African
Indigenous worldviews within the context of the people's
traditional heritage. The concept of eschatology is usually
explained from the perspective of "endtimes" in relation to either
the human individual or the cosmos. Within these contexts, the
primary interests, particularly with regard to human eschatology,
have centred on the questions of death, afterlife, immortality,
destiny, judgment, reward and punishment, and the final destination
or eternal "home" of humans. This book explores the characteristic
nature, the modes, the process as well as the dynamics associated
with the various features culminating the functional expression of
the "reality" of eschatological beliefs demonstrated in varied but
fundamentally the same subject matter of practices among different
African ethnic groups. It also discusses the influences of other
religious traditions, particularly Christianity and Islam, on
contemporary African eschatological thoughts and their attendant
consequences. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars of African studies, eschatology, religious studies, and
the philosophy of religion.
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