The Spirituality of African Peoples Paperback - 1994
by Peter J. Paris
Eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris focuses on African "spirituality"--the religious and moral values pervading traditional African religious worldviews. Paris's careful scholarship and his eye for value in varying cultural milieus combine to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify cultural foundations of black ethical life.
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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.
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- Title The Spirituality of African Peoples
- Author Peter J. Paris
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishing, Minneapolis
- Date 1994-11-01
- ISBN 9780800628543 / 0800628543
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.51 x 5.55 x 0.52 in (21.62 x 14.10 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Religion, Ethics, Modern - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94032866
- Dewey Decimal Code 170.899
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Citations
- Christian Century, 10/19/2010, Page 32
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