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Africa's Social and Religious Quest A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

30.01.2014

Abbildungen

10 BW Illustrations

Verlag

Ingram Publishers Services

Seitenzahl

646

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23.4/15.6/3.4 cm

Gewicht

1034 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7618-6267-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

30.01.2014

Abbildungen

10 BW Illustrations

Verlag

Ingram Publishers Services

Seitenzahl

646

Maße (L/B/H)

23.4/15.6/3.4 cm

Gewicht

1034 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7618-6267-3

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
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DE

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  • Produktbild: Africa's Social and Religious Quest
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  • Religion, Anthropology, and the Bible in Africa (RABA)
    List of Figures
    Foreword
    Preface
    Acknowledgments

    DIVISION ONE:
    PROLEGOMENA AND OTHER MATTERS ARISING!

    PART ONE: IN PURSUIT OF LIFE AND WHOLENESS

    1. On Identifying and Signifying a Quest

    DIVISION TWO:
    CULTURE AND RELIGION IN AFRICAN SOCIETY

    PART TWO: PROTECTION AND POWER

    2. Personal and Communal Stake
    3. The Ancestoral Source
    4. Social Ferment and Human Machinations
    5. Mythology, Magic and Ritual
    6. Excursus: Witchcraft Discourse and Interpretation

    PART THREE: SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE

    7. Popular (or, Folk) Religion
    8. Customs and Ceremonies
    9. Prayer and Providence
    10. African Pentecostalism and the Miraculous
    11. Religion and Social Control

    DIVISION THREE:
    POLITICAL/ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

    PART FOUR: COMMUNAL KINSHIP AND THE INDIVIDUAL

    12. Communality and the Person
    13. Cultural and Moral Traditions
    14. Patrimonialism and Procreationism
    15. Nature and Environmental Forces
    16. Human Dignity/Equality and the Person

    PART FIVE: HUMAN OPPRESSION AND ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT

    17. Colonization and Slavery
    18. Women, Culture and Liberation
    19. Poverty, Wealth and Development
    20. Money, Market and Prosperity
    21. Social and Cultural (Or, the Genesis) Mandate

    DIVISION FOUR:
    RELIGION, SOCIAL HISTORY AND ETHICS

    PART SIX: MORALITY, ETHICS AND THE GOOD LIFE

    22. African Weltanschauung (Worldview) and Morality
    23. The Good Life in (African) Religious Tradition
    24. African Cultural Values and Submergence of Virtue
    25. Religion, Culture and African Social Ethics
    26. Social History, Progress and Moral Modern Society

    DIVISION FIVE:
    GOD, HUMANKIND AND THE WORLD

    PART SEVEN: ISSUES DETERMINING THE QUEST

    27. God and the World
    28. Humankind and History
    29. Salvation and Selfhood

    DIVISION SIX:
    THE QUEST AND THE SITUATION REVISITED

    PART EIGHT: UNDERSTANDING AFRICA'S QUEST

    30. The End of a Quest: Critical Reflections

    Select Bibliography
    Index
    About the Author