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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.
This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of
gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious,
cultural, environmental and political developments of human
societies in Africa and its Diaspora. An interdisciplinary team of
contributors examine the role of gender in development against the
background of Africa's convoluted and arduous history of state
formation, slavery, colonialism, post-independence, nation-building
and poverty. Each chapter highlights and stimulates further
discussion on the struggles that many African and African Diaspora
societies grapple with in the perplexing issue of gender and
development - concentrating on gains that have been made and the
challenges yet to be surmounted.
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.
This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of
gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious,
cultural, environmental and political developments of human
societies in Africa and its Diaspora. An interdisciplinary team of
contributors examine the role of gender in development against the
background of Africa's convoluted and arduous history of state
formation, slavery, colonialism, post-independence, nation-building
and poverty. Each chapter highlights and stimulates further
discussion on the struggles that many African and African Diaspora
societies grapple with in the perplexing issue of gender and
development - concentrating on gains that have been made and the
challenges yet to be surmounted.
Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African
Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world.
The volume focuses on the continent, on African identity in
globalization, and on African religion in cultural change.
The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates
and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from
interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of
perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the
past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly,
capturing their dynamics in the present and projecting their
sustainability and relevance for the future, this volume is an
essential resource for knowledge and understanding of African
Traditional religions in the global space of religious traditions.
This book consciously interrogates the varieties of opinions with
regards to the socio-political and religious dynamics of Africans
in the African continent as well as in the diaspora in the context
of globalization. It highlights the significance and the
consequences of globalization on these areas with regards to the
African world views. Through the multi and interdisciplinary
discourse in this volume, the diversity of opinions necessary for
grappling with the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on
various African ways of life are captured. These should give
credence to the conviction that answers to questions about
globalization of Africa in the past, the present, and projected
future can only be provided by Africans and Africanists with the
interest of Africa as the sole motivation of content and discontent
debates. This volume contributes to such efforts in searching for
viable answers to the challenges of globalization in Africa.
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