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- English
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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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Section 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
- Chapter 1: Ambiguous Conquest in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World: The Personal Journey of Esteban de Dorantes
- Chapter 2: History and the Sacred: The Royal Tombs of Igboho
- Chapter 3: Rituals and African Space: Funerals Rites and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty
- Chapter 4: Sacred Spaces and Ritual Performances in Ejaghamland of Cameroon
- Chapter 5: Masjid: Sacred Space in Nigerian Islam
- Section 2: CROSS-CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTALIST PERSPECTIVES
- Chapter 6: The Metaphysics of Space in Yoruba Traditional Religion
- Chapter 7: Sacred Spaces: Mountains in Yoruba Spirituality
- Chapter 8: Tradition and Modernity: The Dynamics of the Management of Osun Sacred Groves in Osogbo, Nigeria
- Section 3: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AND UNDERSTANDINGS
- Chapter 9: African Sacred Groves and Sustainability: Reflections on Zimbabwe’s Chirinda Forest and Guhune Mountain
- Chapter 10: Space, Art, and Religion in Changó, el gran putas
- Chapter 11: Islam and Ancient Sacred Places in Hausaland
- Chapter 12: Sacred Space and Sacred Time on an African University Campus
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
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