Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs

ISBN-13: 9781032089041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 132 str.

Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe

Opis

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 world views within the context of the peoples traditional heritage.

Spis treści

1. Introductory: Universal concepts of Eschatology- Definitions, Developmental Explanations and Beliefs in Major Religious Traditions  2. Eschatology in African 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 – "Gate-ways" to African Eschatological Beliefs and Practices  5. The After Life, 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 

O autorze

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