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As the first comprehensive work to assemble ideas, concepts, discourses, and extensive essays in this vital area, the "Encyclopedia of African Religion" explores such topics as deities and divinities, the nature of humanity, the end of life, the conquest of fear, and the quest for attainment of harmony with nature and other humans. Editors Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama include nearly 500 entries that seek to rediscover the original beauty and majesty of African religion. The book helps readers grasp the enormity of Africa's contribution to religious ideas by presenting richly textured concepts of spirituality, ritual, and initiation while simultaneously advancing new theological categories, cosmological narratives, and ways to conceptualize ethical behavior. It provides readers with new metaphors, figures of speech, modes of reasoning, etymologies, analogies, and cosmogonies, and reveals the complexity, texture, and rhythms of the African religious tradition to provide scholars with a baseline for future works.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Encyclopedia of African Religion
• Author: Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 920
• EAN: 9781412936361
• ISBN: 1412936365
• ID: 04785842
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Weight: 2952 g
• Dimensions: 287 × 222 × 63 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. January 2009

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