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African Sacred Spaces Culture, History, and Change

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Full Title

African Sacred Spaces Culture, History, and Change

Author(s)

\'BioDun J. Ogundayo, Julius O. Adekunle

Edition
ISBN

9781498567435, 9781498567442, 9781498567428

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.