Igbo Idea of the Supreme Being and the Triune God
Author: Raphael Amobi Egwu
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
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The Value of Human Dignity. A Socio-cultural Approach to Value Crisis among Igbo People of Nigeria
Author: Chinedu Paul Ezenwa
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 3832551999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere today is a specific, original and stable basis for a Political order to be found? What does the human dignity mean in the midst of the general crises of values? In the face of the ambivalent achievements of modernity and enlightenment, do the values of Christianity which until now have been regarded as the objective norm fail in its contact with the primal culture and the culture of the African communities? Where in this classes are the weakening and strengthening and specific challenges of this African People? This field of conflict must not only be described, but above all to ask about new opportunities to get out of the crisis of the value of human dignity in the Igbo society of Southeastern Nigeria. Ezenwas work seeks and aids understanding, using the facility of examining the subject of dignity in Igbo culture to throw light that casts much farther than the subject matter, begging for further inquiry into other complementary aspects of the culture. In other to achieve this, interdisciplinary research was needed.
Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity
Author: Akuma-Kalu Njoku
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 144387034X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterface between Igbo Theology and Christianity is a timely book that provides new scholarly thinking concerning the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion taking place in the Igbo culture area. This book, a fruit of multidisciplinary conversation among Igbo scholars and Igbophiles, offers concepts, themes, issues, and case studies with deep ethnographic details, some of which do not exist anywhere else in print. It is a major statement of how modern Igbo scholars, social scientists, philosophers, theologians, liturgists, and active pastors and parish priests, understand the intersection of Igbo Traditional Religion and Christianity in postcolonial Nigeria. The editors and authors of the chapters of this book draw from their wealth of experience to offer to students, scholars, researchers, community-based organizations and NGOs, and practitioners in interfaith dialogue a “must have” manual to engage in and develop mutual respect and trust among Christian denominations and between them and Igbo Traditional Religion. This book will serve as a blueprint for a deep dialogue among the Igbo in both city and rural settings, in the context of clan and community life context and in the Christian parish setting. The book will certainly appeal to numerous communities in Africa wishing to share similar local experiences and collective memories, but which do not have the channels to talk about themselves in scholarly writing.
The Holy Spirit in African Christianity
Author: Chigor Chike
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1780780702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of what African Christians living in Britain believe about the Holy Spirit.
Dancing to the Post-modern Tune
Author: Tobias O. Okoro
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9783034302401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligions and Discourse explores religious language in the major world faiths from various viewpoints, including semiotics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, and reflects on how it is situated within wider intellectual and cultural contexts. In particular a key issue is the role of figurative speech. Many fascinating metaphors originate in religion e.g. revelation as a 'garment', apostasy as 'adultery', loving kindness as the 'circumcision of the heart'.
The Traditional African Concept of God and the Christian Concept of God
Author: Peter Chiehiụra Uzor
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is motivated by the positive view of the non-Christian religions expressed by the Fathers of the Vatican Council II (cf. NA 2a), a revolutionary view considered from the official teaching of the tradition of the Church up till then, and much more in such a central issue as the belief in God. This book aims at initiating a healthy interaction between the Christian understanding of God and the understanding of God in the traditional religion of the Igbo people of West Africa. In approaching this task this special study pursues some major aims. In the first place it engages itself in the clarification of some basic issues: Are the religious experiences which are phenomenologically found in all religions including the Igbo religion only mere human fabrications or do they originate from a revelation of God? Secondly, this publication working with the innovative analysis of the theophoral personal names provides some profound factual information about the concrete contents of the Igbo religion on God. Thirdly, the author tries to find out whether there could be a basic agreement between the understanding of God in Igbo religion and the biblical revelation. In this work the fundamental agreement is found in the conviction that God in traditional Igbo religion, Chukwu and the God of the Bible is the God of life. The purpose of this book therefore, is to bring back the question of God to the centre of existential Christian life: it is to make the theme of God the motivation and criterion for the whole Christian life and spirituality - both individually and communally. The theme of the God of life introduces God into life and connects the problems and questions of men and women of todayto the theme of God.
G.K. Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul Tillich's Theology of Culture in Dialogue with African Theology
Author: Sylvester I. Ihuoma
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fundamental theological study is innovative, eye-opening and interdisciplinary in orientation. The book makes a constructive contribution to the debate on both Tillich's theology of culture and African contextual theology. It reconstructs Tillich's theology of culture in an original manner and contemporaneously helps readers understand the religious cultural thought of the Igbo, especially with regard to the idea of the Supreme Being.
The Conflicting Influence of the Christian Messages in Igboland (HB)
Author: Rev. Fr. Dr. Michael K. Onyekwere, SDV
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2019-08-28
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1644264528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Conflicting Influence of the Christian Messages in Igboland By: Rev. Fr. Dr. Michael K. Onyekwere, SDV The Conflicting Influence of the Christian Messages in Igboland examines how the homogeneity of a people called the Igbos was destroyed. What they held as sacrosanct degenerated under conflicting and pluralistic Christian messages, thereby replicating the Babel experience in Genesis. With this book, Rev. Fr. Dr. Michael K. Onyekwere, SDV wishes to draw readers’ attention to identify the reasons why there is a breakdown of the values that gave identity to Igboland, threatening their identity as one people. He hopes to offer some solutions and leave some room for further work to be done in the area of conflict management and ecumenism.
Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1
Author: Abiodun Salawu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-05-31
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 3030978842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and their protégés who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they exist.
