The spirituality of African peoples: the search for a common moral discourse

[Paris] focuses on African "spirituality"--the religious and moral values embodied in African experience and pervading traditional African religious worldviews. From extensive comparative research and personal travel, Paris shows how such values were retained and modified in the diaspora,...

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Main Author: Paris, Peter J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis Fortress Press 1995
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Summary:[Paris] focuses on African "spirituality"--the religious and moral values embodied in African experience and pervading traditional African religious worldviews. From extensive comparative research and personal travel, Paris shows how such values were retained and modified in the diaspora, most notably in African American religious and moral thought and practice. Traditional understandings of God, ancestral spirits, tribal community, family belonging, reciprocity, personal destiny and agency, he shows, have not only survived great cultural upheavals but remarkably even been enriched and enlivened.--From publisher description.
Physical Description:XII, 194 S.
ISBN:0800628543

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