Download or read book wa p l written by Awo Fá'Lokun Fatunmbi and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Embracing Iwa Pele written by Ifayemisi Elebuibon and published by Brainfolk African Image LLC. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Embracing Iwa Pele" delves deeply into the concept of Iwa Pele, which in Yoruba means "good character" or "gentle character." This book explores Iwa Pele's significance in Yoruba spirituality and its practical application in everyday life. Drawing on ancient wisdom and modern ideas, "Embracing Iwa Pele" provides readers with a thorough approach to developing excellent character and living a spiritually meaningful life. It examines several facets of Iwa Pele, such as respect, integrity, humility, and compassion, and shows how these values can benefit personal growth and relationships. The book encourages readers to reflect on their character development journeys through entertaining narratives, practical exercises, and thought-provoking reflections. It offers advice on how to overcome hurdles and problems along the way. It emphasizes the significance of self-awareness, self-discipline, and self-reflection in developing Iwa Pele and harmonizing with the universe's divine principles. "Embracing Iwa Pele" also covers common misconceptions and problems in character development, providing insights into how people might overcome ethical quandaries and retain moral integrity in a complex world. It emphasizes the interdependence of all beings and the importance of cultivating harmony within oneself, with others, and with divine energies. Overall, "Embracing Iwa Pele" is an excellent resource for anyone looking to expand their awareness of Yoruba spirituality, cultivate inner peace, and live a life governed by the ideals of goodness, honesty, and spiritual harmony. It is a compelling invitation to accept Iwa Pele's transformational power and embark on personal and spiritual growth.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Religion written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Download or read book Sticks Stones Roots Bones written by Stephanie Rose Bird and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the magical roots of "hoodoo" back to West Africa, the author provides a history of this nature-based healing tradition and offers practical advice on how to apply hoodoo magic to everyday life.
Download or read book Grasping the Root of Divine Power written by Hru Yuya T. Assaan-Anu and published by ANU Sesh. This book was released on 2010-09-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grasping the Root of Divine Power" clarifies the fundamental concepts used in any occult system. The work pulls mainly from West African tradition but, is brought up to date using modern examples and guides for immediate application. The rarely taught nine position OBI divination system is shared and author HRU Assaan-ANU provides an approach of implementing this ancient oracle that will intrigue the novice and advanced student of divination. "Grasping the Root of Divine Power" covers the major Orisha in the West African tradition but, also shows their modern day and cross-geographical/cultural counterparts. After reading this work you'll be able to look at avant-garde figures of notoriety, as well, as your intimate ones and immediately decipher what Orisha or cosmic archetype they spawn from. This only scratches the surface of what is imparted in this potent work.
Download or read book The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts written by Baba Ifa Karade and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the spiritual source of the beliefs and practices that have so profoundly shaped African American religious traditions. Most of the Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas were from the Yoruba nation of West Africa, an ancient and vast civilization. In the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the guiding concepts of the Yoruba spiritual tradition took root in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. In this accessible introduction, Baba Ifa Karade provides an overview of the Yoruba tradition and its influence in the West. He describes the sixteen Orisha, or spirit gods, and shows us how to work with divination, use the energy centers of the body to internalize the teachings of Yoruba, and create a sacred place of worship. The book also includes prayers, dances, songs, offerings, and sacrifices to honor the Orisha.
Download or read book Cuba written by Alan West-Durán and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As American-Cuban relations begin to warm, tourists are rushing to discover the throwback tropical paradise just eighty miles off of the American coast. But even as diplomatic relations are changing and the country opens up to the Western world, Cuba remains a rare and fascinating place. Cuba: A Cultural History tells the story of Cuba’s history through an exploration of its rich and vibrant culture. Rather than offer a timeline of Cuban history or a traditional genre-by-genre history of Cuban culture, Alan West-Durán invites readers to enter Cuban history from the perspective of the island’s uniquely creative cultural forms. He traces the restless island as it ebbs and flows with the power, beauty, and longings of its culture and history. In a world where revolutionary socialism is an almost quaint reminder of the decades-old Cold War, the island nation remains one of the few on the planet guided by a Communist party, still committed to fighting imperialism, opposed to the injustices of globalization, and wedded to the dream of one day building a classless society, albeit in a distant future. But as this book shows, Cuba is more than a struggling socialist country—it is a nation with a complex and turbulent history and a rich and varied culture.
Download or read book IWAKERI the Quest for Afrikan Spirituality by Awotunde Yao Zannu Faseyin written by Awotunde Zannu Faseyin and published by Damballah Ancestral Order. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and refreshing new look at ancient Afrikan spirituality by young Vodunsi (West Afrikan Vodun initiate) Awotunde Zannu Faseyin Agbosi. This book is unique in it takes its reader through a pscho-spiritual initiatic process whereas one is taken from the psychological and historical circucmstances of Afrikans and their place in world religious history right into the esoteric and very valuable practical concepts of Vodun/Ifa. The author rightly notes that no respected people are a people who worship the gods of others. Iwakeri is concerned with guiding the Afrikan soul on its journey from Eurocentric religious thought in an attenpt to provide a smoother transition into being whole; to be Afrikan. Finally, Iwakeri is a much needed answer to the question of how do we approach the esoteric from an Afrikan, yet practical way. The preview below is the introduction to Iwakeri: The Quest for Afrikan Spirituality.
Download or read book Pele written by LeAnn Mathis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of refuge is a site where sinners can be forgiven of their sins. Pele collapses inside its borders, surprising the priest, Lono, with both her arrival and her beauty. The chief, Hala'api works with Lono to learn her origins but quickly decides her only future is with him - especially once he discovers her affinity for fire. Meanwhile, the island is getting colder. The Snow Maiden's power is quietly growing stronger and threatens to consume the whole island. The Fire Maiden has stopped her in the past, but can she do so again? When chief turns against priest and fire battles ice, can true love find a way to survive?
Download or read book Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action written by Menoukha Robin Case and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action is an accessible foundation that whets appetite for further study. It provides a non-US-centric introduction to gender studies, covering topics like 19th-century African, Chinese, and Arab movements, and foregrounds Black and Indigenous feminisms. Several case studies—the Aztecs and the Spanish, Agriculture and Gender, Beauty and Authority, Racial Stereotypes, and US Voting Rights—reveal how the interconnected architecture of privilege and oppression affects issues like globalization, media, and the environment. Feminist theories about race, sexuality, class, disabilities, and more culminate in step-by-step instructions for applying intersectionality and practicing activism. Rich with 19 diverse first-person voices, it brings feminism to life and lives to feminism.
Download or read book Deep Knowledge written by Oludamini Ogunnaike and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth, comparative study of two of the most popular and influential intellectual and spiritual traditions of West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa. Employing a unique methodological approach that thinks with and from—rather than merely about—these traditions, Oludamini Ogunnaike argues that they contain sophisticated epistemologies that provide practitioners with a comprehensive worldview and a way of crafting a meaningful life. Using theories belonging to the traditions themselves as well as contemporary oral and textual sources, Ogunnaike examines how both Sufism and Ifa answer the questions of what knowledge is, how it is acquired, and how it is verified. Or, more simply: What do you know? How did you come to know it? How do you know that you know? After analyzing Ifa and Sufism separately and on their own terms, the book compares them to each other and to certain features of academic theories of knowledge. By analyzing Sufism from the perspective of Ifa, Ifa from the perspective of Sufism, and the contemporary academy from the perspective of both, this book invites scholars to inhabit these seemingly “foreign” intellectual traditions as valid and viable perspectives on knowledge, metaphysics, psychology, and ritual practice. Unprecedented and innovative, Deep Knowledge makes a significant contribution to cross-cultural philosophy, African philosophy, religious studies, and Islamic studies. Its singular approach advances our understanding of the philosophical bases underlying these two African traditions and lays the groundwork for future study.
Download or read book Ethics That Matters written by James Samuel Logan and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of globalization, ongoing issues of race, gender, and class, and the rapidly changing roles of institutions, this volume asserts that Christian social ethics must be reframed completely. Three questions are at the heart of this vital inquiry: How can moral community flourish in a global context? What kinds of leadership do we need to nurture global moral community? How shall we construe social institutions and social movements for change in the twenty-first century?
Download or read book Literary Expressions of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics written by Nimi Wariboko and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa’s ethical life and thought.
Download or read book Ojise written by Baba Ifa Karade and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ojise: Messenger of the Yoruba Tradition is a journal of the day-to-day activities and rituals that Karade encountered in his quest for priesthood in the Yoruba religion. Embedded in this journal are the very emotions, ideas and changes in his psyche-and the healing of soul - that occured on this journey. Karade explains the significance of the spiritual pilgrimage for people of all faiths.
Download or read book Santeria written by Joseph M. Murphy and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santería community of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful analysis of this African/Cuban religion. He traces the survival of an ancient spiritual path from its West African Yoruba origins, through nearly two centuries of slavery in the New World, to its presence in the urban centers of the United States, where it continues to inspire seekers with its compelling vision.
Download or read book Reimaging Africa written by Adeyinka Adewale and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, through a politico-historical analysis, aims to provide a more balanced perspective regarding the nature of Africa’s relations with other global regions. It emphasizes the sophisticated nature of pre-colonial African politico-historical commentaries often overlooked or simplified. As such, the narrative avoids the usual misrepresentations which impress that African-European interactions are a history of European actions in an Africa generally devoid of anything similar to the cultures, institutions and abilities of Europe. Further, it contests the historical narrative that indigenous Africans have had no real active role vis-à-vis an assertive, dominating Europe in historical times. Within this book, the contestation of such narratives with evidence-based counter perspectives is of particular benefit for our current educational, social and political contexts.
