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Rituals and Embodied Cultural Practices at the Beginning of …
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In this paper, we focused specifically on pregnancy rituals, and rituals performed after childbirth, namely, birth songs and dancing, the umbilical cord and placenta rituals, the omugwo ritual (care after birth), and the naming ceremony. The first major African initiation rite is the rite of birth.
[PDF File] INITIATION IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION - uni …
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INITIATION IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION A systematic symbolic analysis With special reference to aspects of Igbo religion in Nigeria Inaugural – Dissertation
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The meaning – content of sacrifices in African traditional Religion Sacrifices in Judaism, Christianity and one Eastern Religions (Hinduism) .
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[PDF File] Traditional African religions and their influences on the …
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Abstract: This essay explores the traditional African religious beliefs and practices of the people of Bangwa in the Southwestern region of Cameroon in order to uncover how those beliefs influence their thought processes and worldviews. In the course of rethinking and re-examining their belief systems and their traditional religious practices, the following …
The Process of Marriage in African Societies: A Multiple
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The ritual exchange of kola nuts or marriage drinks is typical in traditional wedding ceremonies in many West African societies.3 The questions on the timing of the marriage ceremony were not asked of women whose first union was a free union, since free unions by definition are consensual unions that do not involve a ceremony (for a discussion ...
[PDF File] The Role of Women in African Traditional Religion - Springer
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IntroductIon To delve into the topic of women in African traditional religion, one would need to know what African traditional religion means. The African traditional religion, or traditional beliefs and practices of African people, is a set of highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions.1 Generally, these traditions are oral rather than …
[PDF File] Christianity and African Culture in Nigeria
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African culture is expressed in its arts and crafts, folklore and religion, clothing, cuisine, music and languages. Expressions of culture are abundant within Africa, with large amounts of cultural diversity being found not only across …
[PDF File] Introduction to Handbook of African Traditional Religion
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There is hardly any doubt that the practice and study of African Traditional Religion have generated significant interest globally. Such interest is clearly traceable to the importance of religion as the “barometer” of the African spiri-tual and cultural hegemonies that have shaped the fundamental identities of African ethnic groups and societies both on the …
[PDF File] Chapter 3: Traditional African Religious Beliefs and Practices
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Chapter 3: Traditional African Religious Beliefs and Practices Side by side with their high levels of commitment to Christianity and Islam, many people in the countries surveyed retain beliefs and rituals that are characteristic of traditional African religions.
[PDF File] African Traditional Religion: An Examination of Terminologies …
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Generally, African people are very religious and for that matter, religion permeates in all aspects of life, i.e. drumming, dancing, singing, ceremonies, festivals, marriages among others. African traditional religion (ATR) refers to the indigenous religious beliefs and practices of the African people. To Mbiti (1969), African Religions and Philosophy is a …
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African Traditional Religion in the face of Secularism in South Africa It is a well documented fact that African Traditional Religion was discriminated against by the missionaries, as well as colonial and apartheid governments. African traditionalist and academic Nokuzola Mndende1 points out that under these regimes the public profile of …
[PDF File] The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion
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45 African Traditional Religion and Humanities’ Scholarship: The Contributions of Edward Geoffrey Parrinder and Ko Asare Opoku 599 ... times, naming and marriage ceremonies, and their spiritual signicances. She was appointed a member of the committee for the review of academic pro-
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In his ‘Sustainability and the Role of Biodiversity’ Wienecke comes close to offering a solution when he states, “Positive values towards the use of natural resources were inculcated (in traditional African societies) from generation to generation by means of proverbs, stories, songs, and religious ceremonies or rituals.” (Wienecke:88 ...
[PDF File] RITES OF PASSAGE AFRICAN TRADITIONAL REGION
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In another chapter, puberty rites were mentioned as another rites of passage. Here again the writer made mention of the various ceremonies which accompany puberty and its significance in African traditional religion.
[PDF File] The Holy Communion and African rituals: An encounter …
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Africans and Christians would then at least agree that a relationship between an individual and the transcendent is established even before birth. On the one hand, Africans believe that this relationship could be traced from conception until death, as individuals within African Traditional Religion (ATR) are engaged in active maintenance of close contact …
[PDF File] Ritual Efficacy in Traditional African Environments
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Ritual in African Perspective In traditional African environments, ritual expression is a frequent occurrence that punctuates the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Ritual rites are forms of procedure and sacrifice necessary to appease God or the gods in a particular form of treatment or situation.
[PDF File] Tolerance in African Traditional Religion by Emmanuel Abar
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Tolerance in African Traditional Religion This article looks at tolerance in African Traditional Religion (ATR). A major problem in our world is the inability to live peacefully as people of diferent faiths. In Africa (based on my understanding from a Nigerian perspective), to a large extent, religion has been at the heart of much of the …
[PDF File] Social Change and African Traditional Religion - JSTOR
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Islam, Christianity, nationalism and secularism are analyzed in their influences on African Traditional religions. The peculiar mixtures and combinations of traditional and non- traditional elements are noted in various rites of passage, ceremonies and …
Tolerance in African Traditional Religion - Andrews University
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Tolerance in African Traditional Religion This article looks at tolerance in African Traditional Religion (ATR). A major problem in our world is the inability to live peacefully as people of diferent faiths. In Africa (based on my understanding from a Nigerian perspective), to a large extent, religion has been at the heart of much of the …
Praying for Rain: Indigenous Systems of Rainmaking in Kenya
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They use African traditional indigenous knowledge embedded in African religion to “pray for rain” by predicting, causing, redirecting, and controlling rain within their locality. The role of rainmaking and its effects is therefore crucial. The purpose of this contribution is to examine the indigenous systems of rainmaking in Kenya.
[PDF File] African Traditional Religion - Samaria Mission
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Where to look for and find African Tradition Religion? It is found in rituals, ceremonies and festivals of the people: Birth, giving of names, circumcision, initiation ceremonies, marriage, funerals, harvest festival, need for rain
The Transmission of Knowledge in South African Traditional …
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Since the promulgation of the new South African constitution by the ANC government in 1994, traditional healing has become very prominent in public discourse. Increasing numbers of people today become traditional healers or sangomas.
[PDF File] Women in African Traditional Religions - JSTOR
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Women in African Traditional Religions I39. Although women play subordinate roles within the central communal cults of traditional African religions, they frequently have important roles in personal rituals of status transformation associated with birth, puberty, and death. From the perspective of women's ritual and secular.
[PDF File] Adventists and African Traditional Religion - ESDA | Home
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African Traditional Religion (hereafter cited as ATR) is the indigenous religion of the African people. ATR reflects the thinking and perception of reality in relation to the African understanding of the supernatural. It expresses the beliefs and practices that regulate the mentality and views of the African cosmology whose worldview locates an individual’s …
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