The purpose of this book is to explore variables related to health promoting behaviors, using a culturally grounded perspective. The author argues that discussing health and wellness among African-descended people with resilience in mind sets the stage for solution-focused interventions.
A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam
This primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. This collection of essays places emphasis on the role and views of the missionary and voluntary spread of Islam among African Americans in the United States.
Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the ......
This multidisciplinary book explores African women's networks and their interventions as they work to achieve social and political change. Such networks - historic, real, virtual, and imagined - expose existing gender hierarchies, while also making progress toward gender equality.
In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti's Contribution, contributors study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of a contemporary African theology that is informed and shaped by African culture and scholarship.
Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality. Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life. ......
A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship Among the Akan
This edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship-with the addition of three new chapters. The book serves as an invaluable resource for those interested in African religion and symbolic representation and praxis of ancestor worship. The study examines Akan conception of God, the abosom, religious symbols, and annual festivities.
This book contributes to the debate concerning the future of the political economy of African development by addressing the important question of how African countries can strategically approach global political economy at multilateral, continental, and regional levels in view of North-South versus South-South configurations.
This book creates (on the one hand) and explores (on the other hand) philosophies of African development suitable for Black sub-Saharan African countries. As an academic discipline focused on thought informed by indigenous moral values among Black peoples in the sub-Saharan region, African political philosophy involves philosophizing normatively ......
