| The Spirituality of African Peoples Contributor(s): Paris, Peter J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0800628543 ISBN-13: 9780800628543 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing OUR PRICE: $27.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1994 Annotation: Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris sharpens the Afrocentric quest. He 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. Paris's Pan-African focus, careful scholarship, and eye for ultimate values in varying cultural milieus combine here to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify the cultural foundations of black ethical life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Religion | Comparative Religion - Social Science |
| Dewey: 170.899 |
| LCCN: 94032866 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.55" W x 8.51" (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Current interest in Afrocentricity is but one moment in the longstanding post-colonial search by African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, for cultural beacons. Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris here sharpens and focuses that quest on African spiritualitythat is, 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 its practice. Traditional understandings of God, ancestral spirits, tribal community, family belonging, reciprocity, personal destiny, and agency have not only survived great cultural upheavals but remarkably even been enriched and enlivened. Paris's pan-African focus, careful scholarship, and eye for ultimate values in varying cultural milieus combine here to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify the cultural foundations of black ethical life. |
