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What is religion? An African understanding [PDF]
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010 Western thought has influenced the way that religion is understood. Western philosophy supported the separation between the sacred and the profane. Modernism, focusing on human rationality, reduced religion to a set of correctly formulated dogmas and ...
Jaco Beyers
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Imperialism and its effects on the African Traditional Religion: Towards the liberty of African Spirituality [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2017 This paper argues that the juxtaposition of the African Traditional Religion (ATR) with Ibramic faiths tends to deprive the African Traditional Religion its true status as an independent religion, and thus, the process appears to be a product of ...
Joel Mokhoathi
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Environmental Degradation and Poverty in Amansie Traditional Area: Investigating the Contributing Factors and the Role of Religion [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020 Environmental degradation and poverty are challenges faced in most parts of the world, and the global quest by some researchers to know the role religious bodies on should play in relation to these issues of concern continues unabated.
Charles Owusu Ampofo
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African Traditional Religion vis-à-vis the Tackle It Suffers
, 2021 African Traditional Religion is the indigenous religion of the Africans. The religion that has existed before the advent of western civilization which came with secularism as an umbrella that shades Christianity, education, urbanization, colonization and
Nweke, Innocent Ogbonna
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Diseases and Healthcare: The African Indigenous Religion Practitioners’ Perspective in Ghana [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 Issues of diseases and healthcare are very crucial to human life and survival. Africans have always sought to find holistic and impeccable remedies to diseases and sicknesses that disturb human life and survival.
Konadu Adam +2 more
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In die Skriflig, 2016 Many African scholars such as Bolaji Idowu, Mbiti, Bediako and others have posed a question about the interrelationship between traditional African religion and Christianity.
Vhumani Magezi, Christopher Magezi
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From Saul the Pharisee to Paul the Apostle: The Conversion of Paul, a Prototype for Africans’ Conversion to Christianity? [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2021 This article grapples with the question of the relevance of Paul’s conversion in Acts 8-9 in relation to the current African conversion to Christianity.
Elia Shabani Mligo
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2006 Theology of Religions: A perspective on the relationship between Christianity and the Traditional African Religion In this discussion the relationship between Christianity and the Traditional African Religion is critically evaluated.
Jaco Beyers
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African Christianity: The search for an African Personality [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 African Christianity, as the synthesis between Christianity and African Traditional Religion, seems to evoke an inquiry relating to the issue of African personality.
Joel Mokhoathi
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Religions, 2017 The move towards contextual Christianity in Africa is an essential venture if Christianity is to communicate with the African cultural heritage. As a universal religion, Christianity has to find an expression within the cultural context.
Joel Mokhoathi
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