African spirituality and christianity
Importance of Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of ...
religion and spirituality. Religion and African American Life A long tradition of research and scholarship documents the prominent and pivotal role of religion and religious institutions in the lives of African Americans (Billingsley, 1999; Lincoln & Mamiya, 1990).
AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY 5.1 Introduction
AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY 5.1 Introduction ... The central characteristic of African Christianity is that it is experience-based. The focus is not on abstract thought and logic, but on human experience, including experience of the divine. This is a feature of a culture and philosophical background which rests on oral
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the African philosophers (Soclits and Onuphis) taught Hermes about the ‘inner values and African concepts of humanness’, which were given to human beings by God. An African writer by the name of Koka connected the above ideas by developing the concept of respect and connecting the ideas to African spirituality. For example he says:
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Key words: Imperialism, Christianity, African Tradition Religion, African Spirituality, Early Missionaries. Introduction The foremost faiths practiced in South Africa and to a extent, in the remainder of the continent, are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, African Traditional Religion (ATR) and Judaism.
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The first African captives entered England’s North American colonies through Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. For over 200 years, Africans, largely from the west coast of Africa, were brought to the United States in the slave trade. At first, Christianity made few inroads into the African slave population, which had its own religious traditions.
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translation of the Bible into the Bible into the vernacular of the local African communities. He considers this as the first major step in the process of indigenizing Christianity in Africa. He notes that the availability of the Bible in indigenous languages has made it to become the basis of African spirituality and theology which are unique
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There is an urgent need for dialogue between Christianity and African Indigenous Religion (AIR), because the present version of Christianity and the increase in the membership of AIR is alarming. The missionary version of Christianity accepted by Africans can be described as hypocritical
Conjure, Hoodoo, and the Cross: African Spirituality and ...
Christianity and African Spirituality, and documentation which supports the theory that it was African Spirituality more so than Christianity which held the central position in the lives of enslaved Africans. The influence of African Spirituality will be examined through the lenses of first-hand accounts and scholarly writings. CONCLUSIONS/RESULTS
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I have chosen to speak on the subject, "The Spirituality of African Peoples" for the following reasons (a) because the life and destiny of black ... Islam and christianity. Contrary to the thought of many, Christianity did not replace traditional African religions but, rather, traditional African religions absorbed christian ...
Orisha Worship and Jesus Time: Rethinking African ...
Meanwhile, uniquely African-influenced forms of Christianity have seen great-est prominence in the English-speaking and largely Protestant territories of the United States and the formerly British Caribbean. Thus, Alfred Metraux's classic, Voodoo in Haiti (1959) and Leslie Desmangle's more recent work The Faces of the Gods (1992) have explored ...
Conflicts Between African Traditional Religion and ...
Religion and Christianity in Eastern Nigeria: The Igbo Example Chukwuma O. Okeke1, Christopher N. Ibenwa1, and Gloria Tochukwu Okeke1 Abstract Conflict is a universal phenomenon that is inevitable in human interaction. Hence, it cannot be avoided in the interaction between Christianity and African Traditional Religion.
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African spirituality. Further, although he recognizes the danger of constructing rigid categories ... Can United Methodism be a form of Christianity that does not alienate African United Methodists from their African identity and African spirituality and can it foster an attitude of respect, openness, mutuality, and dialogue with African
African Spirituality: forms, meanings and expressions ...
African spirituality. Obeng's contribution forces us to consider carefully what is meant by indigenous Christianity in Africa. That the book concludes with a discussion of African religious influences in the Americas is entirely appropriate, since the vitality of African spirituality can be seen, for example, in Trinidad and Tobago through what ...
The Impact of African Traditional Religious Beliefs and ...
The inception, evangelization and missionary activities of Christianity and Islam in Nkusukum-Ekumfi-Enyan traditional area in the Central Region of Ghana resulted in the conversions of the indigenous people, mainly, from African Traditional Religion (ATR) to the two mission religions.
CHAPTER 3: ASPECTS OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL SPIRITUALITY ...
the like.” African traditional spirituality as an African heritage must be taken seriously for a fuller understanding of African Christian spirituality, particularly of the African Pentecostal churches. The traditional spiritual beliefs of the Chewa people of Zambia, for example, are human-centered and socially oriented.
Introduction: Nat Turner and the Fear of African Spirituality
5 African Spirituality universally structured or functional in the same manner as Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. In fact, each religion is unique to the people among who it emerged.4 African spirituality addressed different concerns in this life—health, wealth, security, etc.
African Pentecostal spirituality as a mystical tradition ...
The Christianity that missionaries exported to Africa was a too cerebral white man’s religion, a classroom religion ... for African Pentecostal spirituality is that it should be based on regular encounters between God and human beings, called the heartbeat of their faith by Asamoah-Gyadu (2005:7)
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The concept of God, divinities and spirits in African traditional religious ontology has been a controversial and misunderstood concept. Various factors led to this controversy and misunderstanding, such as prejudice by Western scholars who measured African traditional religious concept with Christianity. Other
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The growth of African Christianity as a surprising reality, deserves the many varying descriptions it has been given. In his review article, Maxwell (1997:141) asserts: The expansion of Christianity in twentieth-century Africa has been so dramatic that it has been called ‘the fourth great age of Christian expansion’.
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