Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher: Lushena Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Featuring Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Charles S. Finch,Modupe Oduyoye, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Wayne B.,Chandler.,.

Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher: Black Classic Press
ISBN: 9780933121294
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Dr. Ben critically examines the history, beliefs, and myths that are the foundation of Judaism. Christianity, and Islam.

Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907015352
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: Julius H. Bailey
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506408044
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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African American religions constitute a diverse group of beliefs and practices that emerged from the African diaspora brought about by the Atlantic slave trade. Traditional religions that had informed the worldviews of Africans were transported to the shores of the Americas and transformed to make sense of new contexts and conditions. This book explores the survival of traditional religions and how African American religions have influenced and been shaped by American religious history. The text provides an overview of the central people, issues, and events in an account that considers Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Islam, Pentecostal churches, Voodoo, Conjure, Rastafarianism, and new religious movements such as Black Judaism, the Nation of Islam, and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. The book addresses contemporary controversies, including President Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and it will be valuable to all students of African American religions, African American studies, sociology of religion, American religious history, the Black Church, and black theology.

Author: Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199790582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.

Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher: Black Classic Press
ISBN: 9780933121768
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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The second book in a 3 volume set, this is a companion volume to African Origins of the Major Western Religions and The Need for a Black Bible. An invaluable resource for anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of belief systems in the Western world.

Author: John S. Mbiti
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435895914
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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"African Religions and Philosophy" is a systematic study of the attitudes of mind and belief that have evolved in the many societies of Africa. In this second edition, Dr Mbiti has updated his material to include the involvement of women in religion, and the potential unity to be found in what was once thought to be a mass of quite separate religions. Mbiti adds a new dimension to the understanding of the history, thinking, and life throughout the African continent. Religion is approached from an African point of view but is as accessible to readers who belong to non-African societies as it is to those who have grown up in African nations. Since its first publication, this book has become acknowledged as the standard work in the field of study, and it is essential reading for anyone concerned with African religion, history, philosophy, anthropology or general African studies.

Author: Paul C. Boyd
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Gwinyai H. Muzorewa
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620323109
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their origins back before the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Monotheism, he maintains, is the ancient view of God, ubiquitous across the continent of Africa; indeed, monotheism comes "out of Africa." The book challenges the way that the idea of God has been manipulated by Eurocentric agendas, by colonizers, enslavers, and empire builders, all of whom were using God-talk to achieve their own personal ends. In African thinking, the God concept is guided by a sense of the presence of the all-pervasive and omnipresent God, which has instilled in the people a sense of respect for life at all costs. Thus, respect is not based on a commandment or on fear but on a propensity for affinity.