Description

African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and present points to Africans’ continuing recognition of certain natural phenomena and places as sacred. Western influence, the introduction of Christianity and Islam, as well as modernity, have not succeeded in completely obliterating African spirituality and sacred observances, especially as these relate to space in its various iterations. Indeed, Africans, on the continent and in the Diasporas, have responded to the challenges of history, environmentalism, and sustainability with sober and versatile responses in their reverence for sacred space as expressed through a variety of religious, historical, and spiritual practices, as this volume attempts to show.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: African Sacred Places in the Americas

Kevin Young



Chapter 2: History and the Sacred: The Royal Tombs of Igboho

Julius O. Adekunle



Chapter 3: Rituals and African Space: Funeral Rites and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty

Donald O. Omagu



Chapter 4: Sacred Spaces and Ritual Performances in Ejagamland of Cameroon

Emmanuel Mbah and Tom Victor Ntui



Chapter 5:Masjid: Sacred Space in Nigerian Islam

Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe and Muhammad Kyari



Chapter 6: The Metaphysics of Space in Yoruba Traditional Religion

’BioDun J. Ogundayo



Chapter 7: Sacred Spaces: Mountains in Yoruba Spirituality

Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin



Chapter 8: Tradition and Modernity: The Dynamics of the Management of Osun Sacred Groves

Saheed Balogun Amusa



Chapter 9: African Sacred Groves and Sustainability

Fortune Sibanda



Chapter 10: Space, Art, and Religion in Changó, el gran putas

Hawwkayoo N. Zoggyie



Chapter 11: Islam and Ancient Sacred Places in Hausaland

Mukhtar Umar Bunza and Adamu Musa Kotorkoshi



Chapter 12: Sacred Space and Time in an African University

Oluwasegun Aluko

Product details

Published Feb 06 2019
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 268
ISBN 9781498567435
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 31 b/w photos;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
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