Randee Ijatuyi-Morphé
Africa's Social and Religious Quest
A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation
Randee Ijatuyi-Morphé
Africa's Social and Religious Quest
A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation
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This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa's existential predicament. 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.
This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa's existential predicament. 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.
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- Verlag: University Press of America
- Seitenzahl: 646
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 34mm
- Gewicht: 966g
- ISBN-13: 9780761862673
- ISBN-10: 0761862676
- Artikelnr.: 39874300
- Verlag: University Press of America
- Seitenzahl: 646
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 34mm
- Gewicht: 966g
- ISBN-13: 9780761862673
- ISBN-10: 0761862676
- Artikelnr.: 39874300
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.
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
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
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
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