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AFRICAN HOLISM AND SOCIETY
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF THE GOOD LIFE
AFRICAN RELIGION AND PENTECOSTALISM
AFRICAN SOCIAL RELATIONS
AFRICAN WORLD VIEW AND ETHICS/MORALITY
AFRICAN WORLD VIEW AND ETHICSMORALITY
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CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
COLONIALISM AND (POST-)MODERNITY IN AFRICA
COMMUNALITY/KINSHIP AND THE PERSON IN AFRICA
COMMUNALITYKINSHIP AND THE PERSON IN AFRICA
CULTURE
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GENDER/SEXUALITY AND LIBERATION IN AFRICA
GENDERSEXUALITY AND LIBERATION IN AFRICA
HISTORY & CITIZENSHIP
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC/LABOR PROGRESS IN AFRICA
POLITICAL AND ECONOMICLABOR PROGRESS IN AFRICA
Product details
- ISBN 9780761862673
- Weight: 1034g
- Dimensions: 155 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2014
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors (e.g., colonization/slavery vs. leadership/cultural values), this study accounts more comprehensively for emergent issues shaping this situation. The situation reflects a gamut of problems in traditional African religion and material culture, which hitherto defines African communality, polities, and destinies vis-à-vis the cosmos and nature. Thus, African religion and communities, each with its own attendant values, do not operate by critical engagement with larger issues of society and civilization, especially those shaped by the advent of (post-) modernity. Rather, they operate via adaptation. The communal drive for natural and social harmony inevitably produces a preservationist view of culture (“leaving things as they are”). This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.
Randee Ijatuyi-Morphé received his PhD from Trinity International University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar, author, and theologian and has served for eighteen years on the faculty of ECWA Theological Seminary in Jos, where he was chair of the PhD Committee. Ijatuyi-Morphé is also director of Hokma House, an educational and research organization in Nigeria serving academia, ecclesia, and oikoumene of Africa.
