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Authenticity of Belief in African (Igbo) Traditional Religion
The work presents Abrahamic monotheistic religions and the belief of the traditional religions in Africa, especially in Igboland. Religions have come and gone and many are still in existence and they are religiously or socially formed. The faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have their complementary religious conviction with Igbo religion.
Religion, Morality and the Person
Meyer Fortes (1906-1982) was one of the foremost anthropologists of this century, who for many years worked among the Tallensi of northern Ghana. Although he published seminally important monographs on Tallensi family and kinship and on political organization, his work on their religion has hitherto remained confined to disparate journals and edited volumes. This collection brings together in one place his major writings on religion.
Prayer in the Religious Traditions of Africa
A comparative study of Christian, Muslim and traditional native prayer that reaches beyond traditional religious themes to illustrate, with 152 prayers, the infinite ways by which different cultures react to the same religious concerns.
Inculturation as Dialogue
Although Africa is today often seen, because of its large number of Christians, as the future hope of the Church, a closer examination of African Christianity, however, shows that the Christian faith has not taken deep root in Africa. Many Africans today declare themselves to be Christians but still remain followers of their traditional African religions, especially in matters concerning the inner dimensions of their lives. It is evident that, in strictly personal matters relating to such issues as passage rites and crises, most Africans turn to their African traditional religions. As an incarnational faith, part of the history of Christianity has been its encounter with other cultures and its becoming deeply rooted in some of these cultures. The central question remains: Why has the Christian faith not taken deep root in Africa? This volume is concerned with answering this question.
Pynter Bender
"In a Caribbean village perched above cane fields, a woman gives birth to twins. The second child, Pynter Bender, is born blind fully two days after the first; a sign, his family believes, that he will not live into adulthood. When, as a young boy, Pynter's sight is miraculously restored, a landscape of luminous physical beauty is revealed to him, but also the unrelenting hardship faced by his family of formidable women. This is a world where men walk away from their families never to return, and those left behind fight for a better life that can only be achieved through civil attrition and violence, a fight that Pynter cannot avoid being drawn to." "Pynter Bender is a novel of resilience and love, from a major new talent in Anglo-Caribbean writing. Jacob Ross describes the birth of a modern West Indian nation and the shaping of its people as they struggle to shuck off the systems that have kept them shackled for centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Marriage in the Christian and Igbo Traditional Context
Traditional marriage and Christian marriage rites presently exist as two distinct ceremonies in some parts of Africa. Is there no way of bringing the two together to avoid any form of duplication or multiplication of rite? More so because the Church has always implicitly recognised matrimonial institution as a cultural product. The answer to the above question is located in the whole issue of inculturation. A process that successfully flourished in the Western civilisation and consequently influenced the teaching of the Church on marriage. The answer to our question seeks to establish a marriage rite where couples will genuinely experience the happy marriage between culture and Church. A marriage rite that will fulfil both the traditional and Christian demands.
Resolving the Prevailing Conflicts Between Christianity and African (Igbo) Traditional Religion Through Inculturation
For not integrating initially some of the good elements in Igbo culture, many Igbo Christians have double personality - Christian personality and traditional personality. They are Christians on Sundays but traditionalists on weekdays. To combat such an anomalous situation, in imitation of Christ's effort at completing what was lacking in the Jewish religion, author Edwin Udoye proposes radical inculturation. His book equally contains many serious theological reflections such that it recommends itself to both theologians and the scholars researching on the religions of the world. Udoye has therefore made a very significant contribution worthy of commendation to both theological and religious studies.
Mende Religion
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