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Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs book cover

1st Edition

Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs

By Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe Copyright 2020
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge
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Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs addresses the African consciousness and nuances of eschatological beliefs as part and parcel of the holistic African Indigenous worldviews within the context of the people's traditional heritage. The concept of eschatology is usually explained from the perspective of "endtimes" in relation to either the human individual... Read more

1. Introductory: Universal concepts of Eschatology: Definitions, Developmental Explanations and Beliefs in Major Religious Traditions  2. Eschatology in African Traditional Cultural and Religious Worldviews: General Overview  3. Cosmological and Ontological Prelude to African Eschatology: The Dynamics of Creation and Nature of the Universe and Humans.  4. Human Nature, Rites of Passage, Death, and Funeral Rites: "Gateways" to African Eschatological Beliefs and Practices  5. The Afterlife, Ancestral Cult, and African Eschatology  6. Reincarnation and African Eschatological Paradigms  7. End-Times: Of Final Judgment and End of Cosmos in African Eschatological Prism  8. Contemporary Influences, Future of African Concept of Eschatology and Conclusion 

Biography

Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe is a Professor of Religion at The University of Georgia, USA.

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