Author: Apollos O. Nwauwa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498589693
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the often-neglected multifaceted local and external forces that continue to shape the Igbo experience in southeastern Nigeria.
Culture, Precepts, and Social Change in Southeastern Nigeria
Author: Apollos O. Nwauwa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498589693
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the often-neglected multifaceted local and external forces that continue to shape the Igbo experience in southeastern Nigeria.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498589693
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding women, literature, language, sexism in musical lyrics, films, and community development and government. It also explores thought-provoking cultural practices relating to marriage and divorce, reincarnation, naming, and masquerade dance. The themes covered in the book help readers appreciate the often-neglected multifaceted local and external forces that continue to shape the Igbo experience in southeastern Nigeria.
The Value of Human Dignity. A Socio-cultural Approach to Value Crisis among Igbo People of Nigeria
Author: Chinedu Paul Ezenwa
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN: 3832551999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Where today is a specific, original and stable basis for a Political order to be found? What does the human dignity mean in the midst of the general crises of values? In the face of the ambivalent achievements of modernity and enlightenment, do the values of Christianity which until now have been regarded as the objective norm fail in its contact with the primal culture and the culture of the African communities? Where in this classes are the weakening and strengthening and specific challenges of this African People? This field of conflict must not only be described, but above all to ask about new opportunities to get out of the crisis of the value of human dignity in the Igbo society of Southeastern Nigeria. Ezenwas work seeks and aids understanding, using the facility of examining the subject of dignity in Igbo culture to throw light that casts much farther than the subject matter, begging for further inquiry into other complementary aspects of the culture. In other to achieve this, interdisciplinary research was needed.
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN: 3832551999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Where today is a specific, original and stable basis for a Political order to be found? What does the human dignity mean in the midst of the general crises of values? In the face of the ambivalent achievements of modernity and enlightenment, do the values of Christianity which until now have been regarded as the objective norm fail in its contact with the primal culture and the culture of the African communities? Where in this classes are the weakening and strengthening and specific challenges of this African People? This field of conflict must not only be described, but above all to ask about new opportunities to get out of the crisis of the value of human dignity in the Igbo society of Southeastern Nigeria. Ezenwas work seeks and aids understanding, using the facility of examining the subject of dignity in Igbo culture to throw light that casts much farther than the subject matter, begging for further inquiry into other complementary aspects of the culture. In other to achieve this, interdisciplinary research was needed.
The Broken Hoe
Author: David Uru Iyam
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226388492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In this study of the Biase, a small ethnic group living in Nigeria's Cross River State, David Uru Iyam attempts to resolve a long-standing controversy among development theorists: must Third World peoples adopt Western attitudes, practices, and technologies to improve their standard of living or are indigenous beliefs, technologies, and strategies better suited to local conditions? The Biase today face social and economic pressures that seriously strain their ability to cope with the realities of modern Nigeria. Iyam, an anthropologist and a Biase, examines the relationship between culture and development as played out in projects in local communities. Western technologies and beliefs alone cannot ensure economic growth and modernization, Iyam shows, and should not necessarily be imposed on poor rural groups who may not be prepared to incorporate them; neither, however, is it possible to recover indigenous coping strategies given the complexities of the postcolonial world. A successful development strategy, Iyam argues, needs to strengthen local managerial capacity, and he offers suggestions as to how this can be done in a range of cultural and social settings.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226388492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In this study of the Biase, a small ethnic group living in Nigeria's Cross River State, David Uru Iyam attempts to resolve a long-standing controversy among development theorists: must Third World peoples adopt Western attitudes, practices, and technologies to improve their standard of living or are indigenous beliefs, technologies, and strategies better suited to local conditions? The Biase today face social and economic pressures that seriously strain their ability to cope with the realities of modern Nigeria. Iyam, an anthropologist and a Biase, examines the relationship between culture and development as played out in projects in local communities. Western technologies and beliefs alone cannot ensure economic growth and modernization, Iyam shows, and should not necessarily be imposed on poor rural groups who may not be prepared to incorporate them; neither, however, is it possible to recover indigenous coping strategies given the complexities of the postcolonial world. A successful development strategy, Iyam argues, needs to strengthen local managerial capacity, and he offers suggestions as to how this can be done in a range of cultural and social settings.
Culture, Development and Religious Change
Author: O. Kilani
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785420841
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The book is an introduction to the study of culture, with emphasis on the dynamism factor intrinsic and susceptible to generating growth, development initiatives and change, especially in religion and other aspects of Nigerian society. The collection of 19 papers is organised into five parts: Concepts and Theoretical Alignments, Social Institutions in Culture Change and Development, Religious Traditions and Change Experience, Votaries and Sectarian Reaction to Culture and Religious Change, and Pastoral Objective and the Management of Cultural Diversity and Change in Christianity.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785420841
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The book is an introduction to the study of culture, with emphasis on the dynamism factor intrinsic and susceptible to generating growth, development initiatives and change, especially in religion and other aspects of Nigerian society. The collection of 19 papers is organised into five parts: Concepts and Theoretical Alignments, Social Institutions in Culture Change and Development, Religious Traditions and Change Experience, Votaries and Sectarian Reaction to Culture and Religious Change, and Pastoral Objective and the Management of Cultural Diversity and Change in Christianity.
Social Change in Nigeria
Author: Simi Afonja
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Role of Women in Social Change Among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria Living West of the River Niger
Author: Isabel Kamene Okonjo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Resilience in Culture
A Biblical Approach to Mission in Context
Author: Michael Ufok Udoekpo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666747033
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A Biblical Approach to Mission in Context is an erudite collection of twenty essays with forewords and epilogue produced to honor Professor Teresa Okure’s contribution to the study of biblical theology in context. It also stands in its own right as a vade mecum of current trends in biblical scholarship, gender, and contextual hermeneutics. Written by an international array of respected scholars—Okure’s colleagues, former students, siblings, and fellow commentators—this volume includes detailed exegetical studies, discussion on theological methods and contextual approaches from a variety of standpoints, and an effort to relate biblical exegesis, theology, and inculturation—faith—hermeneutics to the current interest in social-contextual interpretation that reflects values beyond the African context. In sum, the breadth of interests and enthusiasm found in this volume is a testimony to the intellectual and pastoral vitalities and passion that Teresa Okure herself brought to the discipline of biblical studies. The brief narrative of personal encounter written by Bernadette Okure, SHCJ, forewords by John Cardinal Onaiyekan and Bishop Camillus Raymond Umoh, as well as an insightful epilogue by Fr. Aniedi Okure, OP, provide additional insight into the historical and socio-cultural contexts within which Okure’s formation and contributions unfolded.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666747033
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A Biblical Approach to Mission in Context is an erudite collection of twenty essays with forewords and epilogue produced to honor Professor Teresa Okure’s contribution to the study of biblical theology in context. It also stands in its own right as a vade mecum of current trends in biblical scholarship, gender, and contextual hermeneutics. Written by an international array of respected scholars—Okure’s colleagues, former students, siblings, and fellow commentators—this volume includes detailed exegetical studies, discussion on theological methods and contextual approaches from a variety of standpoints, and an effort to relate biblical exegesis, theology, and inculturation—faith—hermeneutics to the current interest in social-contextual interpretation that reflects values beyond the African context. In sum, the breadth of interests and enthusiasm found in this volume is a testimony to the intellectual and pastoral vitalities and passion that Teresa Okure herself brought to the discipline of biblical studies. The brief narrative of personal encounter written by Bernadette Okure, SHCJ, forewords by John Cardinal Onaiyekan and Bishop Camillus Raymond Umoh, as well as an insightful epilogue by Fr. Aniedi Okure, OP, provide additional insight into the historical and socio-cultural contexts within which Okure’s formation and contributions unfolded.
African Eco-Theology
Author: Ikechukwu Anthony KANU
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 166559960X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This piece articulates in a theological manner African earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritual practices that are emerging in response to the painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of local and global ecosystems which have for long not received the attention that it deserves. It is in this sense that this Book of Readings titled African Eco-Theology: Meaning, Forms and Expressions will become one of the greatest ornaments and lights in the world of eco-theology as it responds to fundamental questions looming at the corridors of ecological discourses.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 166559960X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This piece articulates in a theological manner African earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritual practices that are emerging in response to the painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of local and global ecosystems which have for long not received the attention that it deserves. It is in this sense that this Book of Readings titled African Eco-Theology: Meaning, Forms and Expressions will become one of the greatest ornaments and lights in the world of eco-theology as it responds to fundamental questions looming at the corridors of ecological discourses.
The Aro Confederacy
Author: Apollos O. Nwauwa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938598586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work reexamines the enduring Aro question in relation to the complex process of state formation, chronological timelines, and historiography. While correlating the evolution of the Aro confederacy to state formation models in Africa, this study interrogates the Hamitic hypothesis and autochthonous assumptions. Also, this study has uniquely and creatively established a relatively firm chronology for the Aro using genealogies collected by the British. Accordingly, the core dating structure for the Aro has been worked out, integrating them within a reliable historical perspective and regional chronological structure. It further interrogates the gaping imbalance between the paucity of field research, the profusion of literature, and distorted historical writings on the Aro. This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers on all aspects of Aro studies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938598586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work reexamines the enduring Aro question in relation to the complex process of state formation, chronological timelines, and historiography. While correlating the evolution of the Aro confederacy to state formation models in Africa, this study interrogates the Hamitic hypothesis and autochthonous assumptions. Also, this study has uniquely and creatively established a relatively firm chronology for the Aro using genealogies collected by the British. Accordingly, the core dating structure for the Aro has been worked out, integrating them within a reliable historical perspective and regional chronological structure. It further interrogates the gaping imbalance between the paucity of field research, the profusion of literature, and distorted historical writings on the Aro. This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers on all aspects of Aro studies.