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Eschatology in African Traditional Religion and African Christianity: Implications for Biblical and Theological Scholarship in Africa [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 African traditional religion has many concepts that present alternative and a variety of contexts for Christianity, theology and biblical scholarship in Africa which can also provide appropriate answers to the many questions of African Christians. One of
Edward Agboada
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Ancestors are demonic - is it true? Traversing Christian demonology and African traditional religion [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 In the early 19th century, missionaries flocked to Central and Southern Africa to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Whilst interacting with the local African indigenous communities, and observing their culture and their way of life, the missionaries ...
Rev. Jacob Mokhutso
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American Journal of Environment Studies, 2021 Purpose: The exploitative tendencies of human activities have hugely hampered the environment, diversely. To that end, the international community has adopted several devices that are mainly anchored on law, ethics and religious doctrines to address the ...
George Benson
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Alcoholism is endemic in Nigeria’s traditional religion and society. This abuse is especially common at New Yam festivals, Ekpe, Ekpo and Nmanwu masquerades festivals, burial rituals, birth, marriage and naming ceremonies.
Emeka C. Ekeke, Elizabeth O. John
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African Traditional Religion in Isuokoma, Nigeria: Focus on Tenets and the Role of Spirits [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and TheologyReligion has remained a major source of hope for man’s existential experiences. In Africa, the domineering effects of Christianity and Islam have undermined the history and practice of the African Traditional Religion (ATR) that was hitherto the original
Kelechi Johnmary Ani
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A Problem of Perspective: Religions in Africa or African Traditional Religion
Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi DergisiThis study critiques study of African religions as a singular phenomenon under the umbrella term "African Traditional Religion" and rejects this reductionist approach, suggesting that a more detailed approach that recognises the ...
Osman Şahin
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African Traditional Religion and moral philosophy
Religious Studies, 2022 AbstractThe article provides a philosophical explication of an African religious moral philosophy. Often philosophers repudiate the view that African Traditional Religions (ATR) can embody a religious moral philosophy. Theologians, on the other hand, tend to believe that ATR can, but they often do not provide a systematic account of such an ethical ...
Motsamai Molefe, Mutshidzi Maraganedzha
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Conflicts Between African Traditional Religion and Christianity in Eastern Nigeria: The Igbo Example [PDF]
, 2017 Conflict is a universal phenomenon that is inevitable in human interaction. Hence, it cannot be avoided in the interaction between Christianity and African Traditional Religion.
Chukwuma O. Okeke +2 more
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RELIGIÃO TRADICIONAL AFRICANA/TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION
Brazilian Journal of Development, 2021 A palavra “religiao” e tardia para o discurso academico sobre o assunto, e ainda e notavel na maioria das descricoes populares da cultura africana. Como o poeta e estudioso queniano Okot p´Bitek (1970) enfatizou: “os conceitos de fetichismo ou animismo ... nao eram religioes africanas.....”.
Luís Tomás Domingos
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The concept of diseases and health care in African traditional religion in Ghana
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 As human beings we sometimes in one way or another become sick, and therefore go for treatment depending on our choice of treatment (religious perspective or Western medical treatment).
Peter White
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