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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Indigenous Religion"”.
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Law and Indigenous Religion: Theorizing a Complex Relationship
… necessary to think the relation between law and Indigenous religion without marginalizing perspectives, such as those germane to Indigenous religion, that fall outside law’s frame (often figured, erroneously, as ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’). The research grounds itself in the only Supreme Court of …
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Towards a dialogical Theology: an exploration of inter-religious cooperation between Christianity and African Indigenous Religion among the Midzi-Chenda people of coastal Kenya
… political perspective but also from the view of religions which are daily lived and practised by individuals and communities, seeking positive solutions for a more habitable earth. Africa, from its colonial legacies, has continually experienced disasters such as wars, droughts, famine, HIV and …
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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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Piety in Production: Video Filmmaking as Religious Encounter in Bénin
… and Reformist Islam, all the while portraying indigenous religion as diabolical. The art-film scene of Bénin often dismisses West African video films as amateurish. Finally, Bénin’s state arts programs promote the Vodun religion of the coast as a tourist attraction yet deny Nàgó–Yorùbá people …
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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
… State, SA) for different religious persuasions, 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 …
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TLA’AMIN HOUSING ARCHITECTURE AND HOME TERRITORIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: INVISIBLE SPACES SHAPING HISTORICAL INDIGENOUS EDUCATION
… elsewhere in Canada, this included changes in Indigenous religion, health, governance, and every other mechanism of life, including architecture. By the 1970s, the Tla’amin, who were once longhouse people, came to live in two-level former military base houses from Ladner, BC. Using oral history …
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Signifying practices : Amaxhosa ritual speech
… to understand and recover African Traditional Religion as the indigenous religion of this country. Much remains to be done to entrench this recognition. There is a growing demand for literature that will document and analyse African Traditional Religion not only as an indigenous religious …
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Christianity, Culture, and Pentecostalism in Ghana: An Ethnographic Study of Pentecostal Traditional Authorities in Contemporary Akan Society (1990s – Present)
… My focus on chieftaincy – the heart of Akan indigenous cultures – allows me to assess the assertion of most scholars of Pentecostalism in Africa that this strand of Christianity is antagonistic to indigenous cultures. I, therefore, explore how CoP chiefs negotiate the complex terrain of …
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CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN TRADITIONAL AKAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION PRACTICES
This dissertation examines traditional religio-cultural beliefs/practices and environmental problems in Ghana using the Kwahu Traditional Area as a case study. Its primary objective is to examine the continuities and changes in the traditional Akan environmental preservation practices. It explores …
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Indigenous Climatic Perspectives: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Environmental Discourse Analysis
… analysis of climate discourse from Indigenous Climatic Perspectives (ICP). This research highlights how the manner in which we relate intellectually, culturally and spiritually to the environment has been dictated by economic ideology developed within Euro-American capitalistic …