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Ori Oke Spirituality and Social Change in Africa
Author | : Nathanael Yaovi,U. Nwosu |
Publsiher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789956550289 |
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The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top. This has occasioned a proliferation of Prayer Mountains throughout Africa. In Yorubaland of southwestern Nigeria, Prayer Mountain is known as Ori-Oke. Like many communities in Africa, the Yoruba are confronted with fundamental challenges in life for which people do not rest until they find solutions. Within the praxis of Nigerian Christian lexicon Ori-Oke is synonymous with the enactment of a sacred space on a mountain top characterised by various prayer regimes, rituals, exorcism and religious practices, aimed at eliciting the help of the divine to alleviate the existential challenges of devotees. This book explores the resacralisation of space on the mountains, highlighting how humans and the divine interact in Yorubaland. It brings into conversation 35 empirically rich scholarly essays on the role of Ori-Oke to those seeking divine intervention in their lives. Today, Ori-Oke have become centres of pilgrimage as a result of the lived experiences of devotees, creating unique religious value quite distinct from the aesthetic value of these mountain tops. The spirituality of Ori-Oke is anchored on the absolute belief in God and the infusion of traditional African worldview sensibilities in religious rites and worship. Ori-Oke spirituality employs resources of Christian tradition, introduced by the formal agents of Christianity, synthesised with traditional culture, to develop a life based on the precepts of an African Christianity. The book is an intellectual discourse on Ori-Oke spirituality, reflecting its contemporary relevance in a context of religious innovation and competition.
Ori Oke Spirituality and Social Change in Africa
Author | : Yaovi, Soede Nathanael,Nwosu, Patrick U. |
Publsiher | : Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789956550036 |
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The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top. This has occasioned a proliferation of Prayer Mountains throughout Africa. In Yorubaland of southwestern Nigeria, Prayer Mountain is known as Ori-Oke. Like many communities in Africa, the Yoruba are confronted with fundamental challenges in life for which people do not rest until they find solutions. Within the praxis of Nigerian Christian lexicon Ori-Oke is synonymous with the enactment of a sacred space on a mountain top characterised by various prayer regimes, rituals, exorcism and religious practices, aimed at eliciting the help of the divine to alleviate the existential challenges of devotees. This book explores the resacralisation of space on the mountains, highlighting how humans and the divine interact in Yorubaland. It brings into conversation 35 empirically rich scholarly essays on the role of Ori-Oke to those seeking divine intervention in their lives. Today, Ori-Oke have become centres of pilgrimage as a result of the lived experiences of devotees, creating unique religious value quite distinct from the aesthetic value of these mountain tops. The spirituality of Ori-Oke is anchored on the absolute belief in God and the infusion of traditional African worldview sensibilities in religious rites and worship. Ori-Oke spirituality employs resources of Christian tradition, introduced by the formal agents of Christianity, synthesised with traditional culture, to develop a life based on the precepts of an African Christianity. The book is an intellectual discourse on Ori-Oke spirituality, reflecting its contemporary relevance in a context of religious innovation and competition.
Gambling and Sports in a Global Age
Author | : Darragh McGee,Christopher Bunn |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2023-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781801173049 |
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This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Establishing a scholarly platform to inform interventions in research and policymaking, this book demonstrates the importance of sociology in understanding sports gambling in a global age.
RELIGIOUS SYNCRETISM IN AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY
Author | : ISAIAH OLUWAJEMIRIYE OLATOYAN |
Publsiher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2024-04-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9798892439879 |
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Christianity among the African people, whether on the soil of Africa or in diaspora, is perceived and defined differently by different people. For instance, among African traditional religious people and Muslims, Christianity is a foreign religion that must not be allowed to thrive in Africa. To several Africans who profess Jesus, Christianity is good, but it is not adequate and effective enough to handle all human needs. Still, among some Western Christians and missionaries, African Christianity is superficial and lacks total commitment to Christ. Of course, the Africans are a cultural people with profound religious inclinations. Their traditional religion (ATR) has tremendously shaped their worldviews and socioeconomic and political activities. Consequently, when traditional Africans are converted to Christianity, they do not break ties with their traditional religions completely. The examination of relevant biblical texts on syncretism, however, reveals that God condemns the worship of many gods and places a curse on anyone who offers sacrifices to carved images and bows to them in worship. Therefore, this work investigates the root cause of religious syncretism among African people. In the attempt to find answers to why the average African Christian finds it difficult, if not impossible, to abandon his/her traditional religious belief systems completely to embrace Christianity, the author concludes that unless the issues surrounding the African forgotten and secret covenants are exposed and decisively addressed in the light of biblical teaching, syncretism will continue to be a stigma on the fabric of African Christianity. Therefore, to overcome the threats of syncretism in African Christianity, there is a need to establish a sound theological and missiological framework that can address the problems associated with the African worldviews and belief systems. This task must be carried out under the searchlight of Scriptures.
Religion Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change
Author | : Erika Bourguignon |
Publsiher | : Columbus : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4251755 |
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Religion and the Transformation of Society
Author | : Monica H. Wilson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0608129135 |
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The New Religions of Africa
Author | : Bennetta Jules-Rosette |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : UOM:39015000591316 |
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This volume is an important and original collection of firsthand field reports and essays on contemporary African cults and churches. Using comprehensive ethnographic information, this volume focuses on the importance of religion as an agent and symbol of social change in emerging African nations, and the changing roles of gender in African society.
African Thought Religion and Culture
Author | : Oliver Alozie Onwubiko |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9782221171 |
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