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African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection
of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects
of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and
present points to Africans' continuing recognition of certain
natural phenomena and places as sacred. Western influence, the
introduction of Christianity and Islam, as well as modernity, have
not succeeded in completely obliterating African spirituality and
sacred observances, especially as these relate to space in its
various iterations. Indeed, Africans, on the continent and in the
Diasporas, have responded to the challenges of history,
environmentalism, and sustainability with sober and versatile
responses in their reverence for sacred space as expressed through
a variety of religious, historical, and spiritual practices, as
this volume attempts to show.
African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection
of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects
of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and
present points to Africans' continuing recognition of certain
natural phenomena and places as sacred. Western influence, the
introduction of Christianity and Islam, as well as modernity, have
not succeeded in completely obliterating African spirituality and
sacred observances, especially as these relate to space in its
various iterations. Indeed, Africans, on the continent and in the
Diasporas, have responded to the challenges of history,
environmentalism, and sustainability with sober and versatile
responses in their reverence for sacred space as expressed through
a variety of religious, historical, and spiritual practices, as
this volume attempts to show.
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