Topographies of African Spirituality (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honor of Jacob K. Olupona
Redaktion: Obadare, Ebenezer; Adogame, Afe; Adebanwi, Wale

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provides an interdisciplinary reflection on key issues in the field and sheds light on everyday experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040300473
• Artikelnr.: 72620557

Autorenporträt

Afe Adogame is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA. Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Washington, DC, USA. Wale Adebanwi is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of contributors; Section I Overture - 1.
Introduction; 2. Intellectual Nerve and Spiritual Muscle: Homage to Alfredo
López Austin and Jacob Olupona; Section II: Beyond Religion? Theorizing and
Grounding Everyday Spiritualities - 3. Theorizing Religion for a
Post-colonial Era; 4. The Concept of Sacred Space Phenomenology of Religion
Revisited; 5. Beyond Religion: Guru Maharaj Ji's Divine Love Mission; 6.
Digitizing Divination! Deconstructing Indigeneity and New Ways of Knowing
in African Spiritual Economies; 7. A Kenyan Environmental Prophet: Wangari
Maathai's Contribution to the Ecology of Religion; 8. Making Connections:
Christianity and Synrectic Practices in Post-colonial Nigeria; Section III:
Gender, Democracy, and the Pragmatics of Development - 9. Disruption and
Promise: The Religious Powers of Development; 10. The Status and Protection
of Non-human Objects in Just War Tradition: A Comparative Analysis from an
African perspective; 11. "Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense": The Continuing
Colonial Dialectic of Democracy and Religion in Nigeria; 12. The Changing
and Sustaining Trends of Women's Roles in Yoruba 'Religions' in Africa and
the African Diaspora; 13. Taboos, Rituals, and Women's Spirituality in an
African Society; Section IV: Ifa, Islam, and Pentecostalism: Collocating
Tradition and Modernity - 14. Ifa and Traditional Yoruba Interpretations of
Christianity; 15. Pentecostalism and Modern Nigerian Society; 16.
Confronting Religious Pluralism: Islamic Reformers and Yoruba Belief;
Section V: The Afro-Atlantic Sacred: Culture, Heritage, and Power - 17.
African Immigrant Churches, Heritage Language, and Heritage Culture in
North America; 18. Catching Bullets with Buttocks: The "Obscene" African
Power of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons; 19. Mapping Africana
Spiritual Nationhood: AfroAtlantic Citizenship, Civil Religion, and Sacred
Spirit Oaths; 20. Let Somebody Soulfully Shout Hallelujah: Soundings on
African Pentecostalism and Renewal in the Diaspora; Section VI: Epilogue -
21. Intellectual Biography for Professor Jacob Kehinde Olupona; Index.