African Spirituality - Anthony Ephirim-Donkor

African Spirituality

On Becoming Ancestors
Buch | Softcover
318 Seiten
2021 | Third Edition
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7260-3 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality. Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life. As a way of living, African spirituality begins when an individual becomes morally and ethically responsible for one’s own actions while engaged on an ethical path (Ɔbra Bↄ) in pursuance of one’s unique career endeavor (Nkrabea). Though an individual quest, society is, however, the arbiter of one’s ethical and moral life, when society confers on the person adjudged a success the stage title of Nana. At old age, Ɔbra Bↄ ends as an active endeavor. However, as repositories of wisdom, senior elders continue to inculcate in succeeding generations the principles, art, and mastery of ideal life (Ɔbra pa). Then upon death, senior elders are transformed into deities, bequeathing to living descendants names worthy of evocation and worship. Indeed, this book is the first study of its kind to draw on the experiences of an entire people, their psychological dispositions and effects on the Akan during adulthood. Thus, this book brings a unique perspective to the study of spirituality, religion, developmental psychological theory, what it means to achieve perfection as an elder on earth, and upon death join the esteemed company of the Nananom Nsamanfo (Ancestors).

Anthony Ephirim-Donkor is professor and former chair of the department of Africana Studies at Binghamton University and State University of New York.

Preface

Guide to Third Edition Pronunciation

Notes on Third Edition

Part I: Personality Formation

Chapter 1: The First People

Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 3: Abosom in Flesh

Chapter 4: Ɔkra

Part II: Stages of African Spirituality

Chapter 5: Twim

Chapter 6: Ɔsaman

Chapter 7: Ntsitsi

Chapter 8: Ɔbra Bͻ

Chapter 9: Nananom Mpānyinfo

Chapter 10: Owu

Chapter 11: Nananom Nsamanfo

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 219 mm
Gewicht 481 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7618-7260-4 / 0761872604
ISBN-13 978-0-7618-7260-3 / 9780761872603
Zustand Neuware
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