Patricia Ngwena

Eco-theology from an African Perspective

African indigenous lifeworlds as Earthkeepers

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Produktbeschreibung

The book seeks to highlight the African ecological episteme applying an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach in addressing the contemporary ecological ecocide. The author attempts to unify African Indigenous Knowledge lifeworlds and African Christianity epistemologies which bears ecological overtones. The African genealogy and Christology bring to the fore the fact that knowledge production cannot be sustained and obtained from one source only - the Eurocentric epistemology. African people(s) indigenous ecological wisdom knowledge systems is more than the binary of western ecological knowledge, but a system practised over time with positive results by communities across sub-Saharan Africa. There are numerous communities that are ecologically sensitive in practice based on the concept of God, humanity and the natural/wild world. The relations are inextricably intertwined. It is vital to develop an episteme including an African perspective when addressing the ecologicalcrisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blessed Hope Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9786204185699
• ISBN-10: 6204185691
• Artikelnr.: 63216372

Autorenporträt

Patricia Dudu Ngwena holds a Master¿s degree in Systematic Theology. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religion and Theology at the at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her academic interests focus on the intersection between land degradation, African theologies, cultural anthropology.