Author: Jude C. Mgbobukwa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Alusi, Osu, Ohu in Igbo Religion and Social Life
Author: Jude C. Mgbobukwa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Spirituality of the Igbo People of Nigeria as an Example of Religious Modernization in a Global World
Author: Henry CHUKWUDI OKEKE
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643911092
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
If there is no religion in the world, the world would more or less become a jungle. The world will be inhuman. Religion touches all aspects of human life. Identifying God's will in our world today has become a major problem for many religions of the world. In the past, in Igbo Traditional Religion, human sacrifice as well as the killing of twins were practised. For the Igbo traditionalists then, that was the will of the deities and equally not against God's will. But following the encounter of Igbo Traditional Religion with Christianity these are no longer practised. Misinterpretation of God's will by some religions of the world has given rise to religious violence, religious extremism, fanaticism and terrorism we are experiencing today in the world. For these problems to be resolved, it is pertinent that the study of various religions be taken seriously. This study should be aiming at better understanding, co-existence, respect for one another and frequent inter-religious dialogues among the various religions of the world. When this is achieved, the believers of various religions would realize that many are worshipping one God and their desire is to communicate with Him, although they may approach Him differently.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643911092
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
If there is no religion in the world, the world would more or less become a jungle. The world will be inhuman. Religion touches all aspects of human life. Identifying God's will in our world today has become a major problem for many religions of the world. In the past, in Igbo Traditional Religion, human sacrifice as well as the killing of twins were practised. For the Igbo traditionalists then, that was the will of the deities and equally not against God's will. But following the encounter of Igbo Traditional Religion with Christianity these are no longer practised. Misinterpretation of God's will by some religions of the world has given rise to religious violence, religious extremism, fanaticism and terrorism we are experiencing today in the world. For these problems to be resolved, it is pertinent that the study of various religions be taken seriously. This study should be aiming at better understanding, co-existence, respect for one another and frequent inter-religious dialogues among the various religions of the world. When this is achieved, the believers of various religions would realize that many are worshipping one God and their desire is to communicate with Him, although they may approach Him differently.
Overcoming the Osu Caste System among the Afro-Igbo
Author: John Ugochukwu Opara
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643911122
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
It is the conviction of Sacramentum Caritatis as well as the fathers of the Second Vatican Council that active participation at Eucharistic celebration cannot be easily disassociated from active involvement in the Church's mission in the world. This present study in the light of the foregoing presuppositions, exposes some of such challenges confronting the Afro-Igbo Christian, with special focus on the menace of the osu caste system, and proposes ways towards its eradication. One of such ways remains strengthening the Eucharistic celebration through the process of the inculturation.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643911122
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
It is the conviction of Sacramentum Caritatis as well as the fathers of the Second Vatican Council that active participation at Eucharistic celebration cannot be easily disassociated from active involvement in the Church's mission in the world. This present study in the light of the foregoing presuppositions, exposes some of such challenges confronting the Afro-Igbo Christian, with special focus on the menace of the osu caste system, and proposes ways towards its eradication. One of such ways remains strengthening the Eucharistic celebration through the process of the inculturation.
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108924956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear – to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108924956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear – to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.
Trends in the Study of Languages & Linguistics in Nigeria
Author: Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Minorities and the Problem of Fairness
Author: Patrick Ikechukwu Okonkwo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural pluralism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural pluralism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
After God is Dibia
Author: John Anenechukwu Umeh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872596099
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872596099
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Leopards of the Magical Dawn
Author: Nze Chukwukadibia E. Nwafor
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781312165144
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Igbo people and their unique culture represents a mercurial bridge of time, with potentials of linking the contemporary mind to the mystic realms from whence original knowledge can be profoundly grasped and brought down to earth for practical applications of many vital interests. In this work, Nwafor, a reincarnated Eze Dibia of Ururo-Umunze descent, distills the knowledge, wisdom and experiences of nine life-times of intense spiritual work, culminating in a unique exegesis of Igbo reality and cultural phenomenon.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781312165144
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Igbo people and their unique culture represents a mercurial bridge of time, with potentials of linking the contemporary mind to the mystic realms from whence original knowledge can be profoundly grasped and brought down to earth for practical applications of many vital interests. In this work, Nwafor, a reincarnated Eze Dibia of Ururo-Umunze descent, distills the knowledge, wisdom and experiences of nine life-times of intense spiritual work, culminating in a unique exegesis of Igbo reality and cultural phenomenon.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Author: David Whittaker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134286481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is the tragic story of an individual set in the wider context of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters. This guide offers an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Apart, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present and the critical material that surrounds it.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134286481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is the tragic story of an individual set in the wider context of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters. This guide offers an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Apart, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present and the critical material that surrounds it.
Sacrifice in Igbo Traditional Religion
Author: Francis A. Arinze
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description