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The Word of Wisdom: And the Creation of Animals in Africa

The Word of Wisdom: And the Creation of Animals in Africa

Ranger, Shelagh

Paperback

African HistoryComparative ReligionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0227679865
ISBN13: 9780227679869
Publisher: James Clarke Co
Published: Aug 30 2007
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
A unique exploration of the role of Nature in the theology of African faiths, covering all significant historical and modern traditions.

This stimulating and provocative work provides a comprehensive introduction to African theology by focussing on the role of animals in African teaching. The work surveys African approaches to religion, beginning with sub-Saharan Africa, encompassing Judaic, Christian and Islamic beliefs, and concluding with African theology today. It highlights the influence of African theology on all the major religions, including the preservation of Jewish texts and the establishment of Christian traditions such as hermeticism and monasticism.

The author demonstrates, through numerous examples, the centrality of the natural world to African faiths. This, she argues, is an aspect sorely lacking in dominant religious traditions, which have tended to treat the natural world as less valuable than humanity and thus more expendable, leading to our current disastrous state in which the existence of animals is put at serious risk. She concludes that for the good of the world, mainstream theology must be Africanised before it is too late.

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