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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"African Religion"”.
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African religion and religion education
The concept of religion in South Africa has been distorted by religious and racial prejuidices. This problem is particularly evident in public schools South African schools have taught Christianity as the only authentic religion, in fact as the only truth. Black parents have not been given a choice …
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Oral into written : an experiment in creating a text for African religion
… co-operative venture - between two lecturers in African Religion and myself - to write a text for South African schools on African Religion (sometimes called African Traditional Religion). Wanting to be true to our subject within the obvious constraints, we endeavoured to write within an oral …
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From religious discrimination to religious tolerance: an analysis of illness and healing in African religion and Christianity
In southern Africa, comparative religion was conducted on frontier battlefields. Comparisons were not merely intellectual exercises. They were entangled in the European conquest and subjugation of Africans. Initially, Europeans observers denied the existence of any indigenous African religion. The …
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Ancestors in African religion : a comparative study of the role of ancestors in the Sotho and Nguni worship and religious ethics
Belief in ancestral spirits among the Africans has always aroused a hot debate among scholars of African Religion. To a great number of scholars this belief seems to have been exaggerated. The fact that Africans speak more about their ancestors than about God has led some scholars into thinking …
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Mapping the beat, beating the map : the religious work of Hip Hop, Reggae and Kwaito in South Africa
… recently democratised South Africa African identity is constantly being negotiated within the media, the political sphere, and a variety of cultural expressions. Firstly, I explore the ways in which the popular musical forms of Hip Hop, Kwaito and Reggae in South Africa are …
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Really Daddy: A Collection of Stories
… their own spirits. Whether the character is an African-American Muslim mother shocked into indecision when the Qur’an doesn’t lead her family in its crisis, or an enslaved woman torturing other slaves out of anger over losing her female love, fabulist techniques are combined with realism to …
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Protest and identity in the context of Sacred spaces: A historical appraisal of three selected sacred sites of the Eastern Free State
… indigenous knowledge and ancestral veneration of Africans and traditional healers, were investigated apropos of the following: namely, how sacred sites are exemplifications of African indigenous religion; why they form locations of cultural and spiritual expression, and why they may be regarded as …
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African perceptions of the missionaries and their message : Wesleyans at Mount Coke and Butterworth, 1825-35
… in the Eastern Cape were characterized by African resistance to the Christian Gospel during the first half of the nineteenth century. Current explanations for this rejection point to the opposition of the chiefs, the association that the listeners made between the missionaries and their …
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Nxopaxopo wa vuyimbeleri bya matswa bemuda hi ku kongomisa eka nkongomelo, nkoka na a matirhiselo ya ririmi erixakeni ra Vhatsonga
… relating to Christian and traditional beliefs (African religion). Chapter five This chapter gives the summary, conclusion, findings and recommendations of the study.
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The worship of God in African traditional religion : a Nigerian perspective
To date numerous works in the African traditional religion have appeared In this devoted to the description of field many have been particular religion phenomena, while some have attempted to refute the beliefs and practices of the religion. But examining the effort of various investigators who …
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From Tsonga to Moçambicanidade: civil religious dynamics in Mozambican nationalism
… and in shaping political consciousness among the Africans. Notwithstanding the relevance of this approach, the current study argues that the Tsonga tribal and Mozambican national identities are civil religious constructs. They resulted from sacrificial ritual performances, the expropriation of …
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When secrecy goes global: Vodún, tourism, and the politics of knowing in Bénin, West Africa
The transnatinal flow of African religions to the Americas via trans-Atlantic slave trade has been well documented (e.g., Clarke 2004, Largey 2006, Olupona and Rey 2008). However, until this study, scholars had not yet studied the reverse direction in the trans-Atlantic dialogue that now connects …
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Santeria – von afrikanischen Orishas über kubanische Heilige zur amerikanischen „Lifestyle-Kultur“
… Dabei werden die pluralen Formen der Orisha-Religion der Yoruba in Afrika im Hinblick auf ihre Funktion als religiöses Fundament der Santeria untersucht. Im Folgenden wird die Entstehung der Santeria auf Kuba, bedingt durch die Einfuhr einer Vielzahl von Yoruba Sklaven, analysiert. Dabei …
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Patient-Provider Encounter: The Contemporary Cameroonian Story
… health and interactions about health. Within the African context, religious cultural beliefs constitute dynamic elements of the culture. My dissertation explains the influences of religion and culture on patient-provider interactions in Cameroon. My field research sought answers to the following …