
Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity.
Title:
Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity.
Author:
Njoku, Akuma-Kalu.
ISBN:
9781443870344
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- CHRISTIANITY MEETS IGBOTRADITIONAL RELIGION -- THE INTERFACE OF IGBO THEOLOGYAND CHRISTIANITY -- OFO NA-OGU AND MMANWU -- THE DIALECTICS OF IGBO AND CHRISTIANRELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA -- MOTIFS FROM IGBO SACRED TEXTSAS PRIMARY INDICATORS OF IGBO THEOLOGYAND RELIGION -- PART TWO -- DISTANCE-NEARNESS, ABSENCE-PRESENCE -- WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS CULTUREIN ETCHELAND -- PART THREE -- EXPRESSIONS OF PERSONAL IDENTITYIN IGBO RELIGIOUS LANGUAGEAND THE BIBLICAL HEBREW EQUIVALENTS -- TRULY IGBO AND TRULY CHRISTIAN -- "SHADOWS OF THE GOOD THINGS TO COME" -- ELEMENTS OF TRADITIONAL AND CHRISTIANRELIGIONS IN WRITTEN IGBO POETRY -- AFRICAN ORIGINS OF JUDAISM -- CONTRIBUTORS.
Abstract:
Interface between Igbo Theology and Christianity is a timely book that provides new scholarly thinking concerning the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion taking place in the Igbo culture area. This book, a fruit of multidisciplinary conversation among Igbo scholars and Igbophiles, offers concepts, themes, issues, and case studies with deep ethnographic details, some of which do not exist anywhere else in print. It is a major statement of how modern Igbo scholars, social...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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