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Re-Imagining Fundamentalism in Traditional African Religious Thought: The Case of Ombatse in Nigeria

Religions
This article re-imagines the conceptual and existential dimensions of religious fundamentalism, which is generally conceived as a belief in the literal interpretation of texts and their application in contemporary society.
Benson Ohihon Igboin
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The Bible in African Hands

African Theological Journal for Church and Society, 2022
Mercy Amba Oduyoye suggests a thorough examination of how the Bible, a triple religious heritage of Africa, has become our good news. ‘How do faith communities use these scriptures to orientate and regulate their lives together?
Humphrey Mwangi Waweru
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The Uncommon Sympathizer: A Hermeneutical Analysis of Èṣù Òdàrà

Yoruba Studies Review
This study focuses on examining the paradoxical portrayal of Èṣù Odara as an uncommon sympathizer, through a hermeneutical analysis of a verse in Èṣù praise poem "Ọ bá ẹlẹ́kún níbi tí ó gbé ń ṣun ẹkún, Ó sunkún ju ẹlẹ́kún lọ; Ẹlẹ́kún ń sun omíje ...
Taofiq Sa'adu
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Women, narrative traditions and African religious thought

, 2019
Anthonia C. Kalu
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Women, Narrative Traditions, and African Religious Thought

, 2016
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Revisiting the Discourse on Human-Nature Relationship in African Traditional Religion and the Responses to the Environmental Change

Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 2022
The pantheistic view of nature enshrined in African traditional religious beliefs and thought systems has propelled a myriad of African scholars to assume that the environmental ethical position of ATR on human-nature relations is environment-centered ...
Elizabeth Okon John, Nelson Robert Enang
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Hamartiology: An Akan Perspective [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2022
Hamartiology, a branch of theology dealing with the nature and effects of sin is orally preserved in the Akan religious thought but not documented as they exist in Islam and Catholicism.
Augustine Kojo Peprah
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“Beholding the Lamb of God”: Jupiter Hammon, the First America’s Black Christian Poet [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2022
The role of Christianity as a factor that exerted a decisive influence over African American social and cultural history, is being debated time and again in the course of African American studies.
Olga Yu. Panova
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Towards an African philosophy of violence: Exploring the epistemic link between religions and violence against women in Zimbabwe

Journal of Contemporary Society Education, 2023
This study investigated the epistemological connections between religious beliefs and violence against women in Zimbabwe. To accomplish this, I undertook a comparative analysis of traditional African religion, Christianity and Islam.
Dudziro Nhengu
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Black gods: The major assertions of the black Jewish movement in America

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
The black Jewish movement in the United States is an African American new religious movement often linked to black gods. This religious thought raises concerns and questions.
Amos Y. Luka
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