African Eco-Theology
African Eco-Theology

Author: Ikechukwu Anthony KANU

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 166559960X

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This piece articulates in a theological manner African earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritual practices that are emerging in response to the painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of local and global ecosystems which have for long not received the attention that it deserves. It is in this sense that this Book of Readings titled African Eco-Theology: Meaning, Forms and Expressions will become one of the greatest ornaments and lights in the world of eco-theology as it responds to fundamental questions looming at the corridors of ecological discourses.

Essays on the Land, Ecotheology, and Traditions in Africa
Essays on the Land, Ecotheology, and Traditions in Africa

Author: Benjamin Abotchie Ntreh

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-08-21

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1532682018

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The book explores how African Christians in Ghana can think eco-theologically about the nexus of mining, waste pollution, water pollution, and land degradation. In 2017, the government of Ghana banned illegal mining and declared war against any activity that does not complement environmental protection and conservation of natural resources. The Christian church needs academic resources to support the campaign against the destruction of the land, water bodies, and environment. The papers presented generate theological imaginations in shaping the political campaign against the destruction of the land and the environment. Reflection on areas related to the theme includes: “The Concept of Land in the Bible”; “The Christian Church and the Galamsey Menace in West Africa”; “The Fulani Cattle Headsmen and Care for the Land”; “The Bible and the Environment: Towards an Agenda for Eco-theology in African Theological Institutions”; “Stewardship of the Land”; “The Menace of Mining in Ghana”; “Destruction of Water Bodies in Ghana”; and “The Menace of Plastic Waste in Ghana.” This volume will serve as a textbook for theological students, the church, and other governmental agencies.

African Ecological Spirituality
African Ecological Spirituality

Author: Ikechukwu Anthony KANU

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1665599634

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In the face of the emerging consequences of anthropogenic activities in relation to the environment, Africa is today united by the consciousness that individual destinies are caught up with the health of natural systems at the national, regional and continental levels. This Book of Readings on African Ecological Spirituality: Perspectives in Anthroposophy and Environmentalism focuses on scholarly and indigenous perspectives regarding the evolution of eco-spirituality in Africa. It provides answers to fundamental questions that have been looming at the horizon of thought for years on the contribution of African spirituality to ecological discourse.

Reclaiming Stolen Earth
Reclaiming Stolen Earth

Author: Clark, Jawanza Eric

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2022-12-29

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1608339424

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"Argues that the problem of impending ecological devastation cannot be solved without a repudiation of whiteness, and white theology that created it"--

Ecowomanism
Ecowomanism

Author: Harris, Melanie L.

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2017-09-14

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1608336662

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Melanie Harris argues that African American women make unique contributions to the environmental justice movement in the ways that they theologize, theorize, practice spiritual activism, and come into religious understandings about their relationship with the earth. This unique text stands at the intersection of several academic disciplines: womanist theology, eco-theology, spirituality, and theological aesthetics.

African Theocology
African Theocology

Author: Ebenezer Yaw Blasu

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1532683634

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There is probably no set of issues of greater importance in the contemporary world than those that are to do with the Earth on which we live and depend. The more alienated we become from it the more we contribute to our own destruction. Christianity's complicity in this destruction is well-documented and hotly debated. Africa can ill afford to fall into the same trap that Western Christianity has in this regard. One senses the urgency of these concerns in Blasu's African Theocology: Studies in African Religious Creation Care. Extremely well-informed in the field, Blasu not only draws on the three major religions in Africa--Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religion--but demonstrates familiarity with the most important recent contributions in the field from Western scholarship. With its emphasis on pedagogics, African Theocology will play a seminal role in the construction of curricula for an African Christian theology of the environment and is sure to be an essential contribution to all libraries in institutions of higher learning.

Towards an African-Christian Environmental Ethic
Towards an African-Christian Environmental Ethic

Author: Nisbert Taisekwa Taringa

Publisher: University of Bamberg Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 3863092104

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This book is a critical comparative study of African (Shona) and Christian attitudes to nature. The purpose of initiating this discussion is to review the existing attitudes to nature in these two religions. This has important implications in an attempt to formulate a pubic environmental ethic in which traditional Shona and Christian adherents participate. This is crucial in the light of the ongoing inequity and ecological imbalance in Zimbabwe.

Ecotheology
Ecotheology

Author: Levente Hufnagel

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-01-11

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1803554355

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Ecotheology - Sustainability and Religions of the World gives a very interesting overview of the frontiers of scientific research in this important multi- and transdisciplinary area. Its chapters use ecotheological approaches to discuss the multiple aspects of an environmental crisis from almost every segment of our planet. This book will be very useful for everyone – researchers, teachers, students, or others interested in the field – who would like to gain some insights into this aspect of our culture.