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African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change

Autor 'BioDun J. Ogundayo, Julius O. Adekunle Contribuţii de Oluwasegun Peter Aluko, Victor Ntui Atom, Amusa Saheed Balogun, Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin, Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe, Kevin Champion Young, Adamu Musa Kotorkoshi, Muhammad Kyari, Emmanuel M. Mbah, Mukhtar Umar Bunza, Donald O. Omagu, Fortune Sibanda, Haakayoo N. Zoggyie
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African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and present points to Africans' continuing recognition of certain natural phenomena and places as sacred. Western influence, the introduction of Christianity and Islam, as well as modernity, have not succeeded in completely obliterating African spirituality and sacred observances, especially as these relate to space in its various iterations. Indeed, Africans, on the continent and in the Diasporas, have responded to the challenges of history, environmentalism, and sustainability with sober and versatile responses in their reverence for sacred space as expressed through a variety of religious, historical, and spiritual practices, as this volume attempts to show.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498567428
ISBN-10: 1498567428
Pagini: 284
Ilustrații: 31 b/w photos;
Dimensiuni: 158 x 230 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1: African Sacred Places in the Americas

Kevin Young



Chapter 2: History and the Sacred: The Royal Tombs of Igboho

Julius O. Adekunle



Chapter 3: Rituals and African Space: Funeral Rites and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty

Donald O. Omagu



Chapter 4: Sacred Spaces and Ritual Performances in Ejagamland of Cameroon

Emmanuel Mbah and Tom Victor Ntui



Chapter 5:Masjid: Sacred Space in Nigerian Islam

Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe and Muhammad Kyari



Chapter 6: The Metaphysics of Space in Yoruba Traditional Religion

'BioDun J. Ogundayo



Chapter 7: Sacred Spaces: Mountains in Yoruba Spirituality

Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin



Chapter 8: Tradition and Modernity: The Dynamics of the Management of Osun Sacred Groves

Saheed Balogun Amusa



Chapter 9: African Sacred Groves and Sustainability

Fortune Sibanda



Chapter 10: Space, Art, and Religion in Changó, el gran putas

Hawwkayoo N. Zoggyie



Chapter 11: Islam and Ancient Sacred Places in Hausaland

Mukhtar Umar Bunza and Adamu Musa Kotorkoshi



Chapter 12: Sacred Space and Time in an African University

Oluwasegun Aluko

Recenzii

African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the functional relationship between "space, geography and imagined in relation to African Spirituality." It is highly commended to scholars and students of religions.
African Sacred Spacesis an intriguing and diverse collection of essays. Every chapter is, in its own right, serious and well-researched. This collection of articles makes some significant contributions to our understanding of how the concept of sacred space informs African (or at any rate Nigerian) cultures.
"In African Sacred Spaces the authors provide a rich harvest of African and African diaspora sacred spaces as central to the notion of individual and group identities. The volume is unique in that there is something of interest for every reader irrespective of disciplinary specialty."
"African Sacred Spaces analyzes the extraordinary worldview of Africans that various worlds-seen and unseen-converge to birth the interdependence of humans, nature and nurture-thereby revealing the extraordinary uniqueness of ideas that unite men with mountains, women with the moon, and children with the sun. In the indivisible world of the spiritual and physical, the book gives cogency and urgency to the need to emote along a non-Western mode of thinking in order to reform our chaotic world."
"African Sacred Spaces is an interdisciplinary book that probes key issues pertaining to African and African diasporic sacred spaces. Taken together, the twelve chapters in this volume provides a collective understanding of African spirituality in its multi-layered interactions. It is a key resource for those who want a comprehensive book focused on the intersection of African religion, culture, and history."