African spirituality
on becoming ancestors
by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
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Focusing on the Akan people in Ghana as a resource for examining the overall conception of human development, this study is the first of its kind to concentrate on specific developmental processes of an African people from the ancestral world to the mundane and back to the ancestral world. From their beliefs concerning reincarnation, conception, birth, education, ethical existence and generativity, eldership, and death, the Akan people have developed a sequence of culturally defined life stage.
This paradigm is predicated on a theory of personality that has its ontological basis in God (Nana Nyame) and the primordial woman and her children that formed the original matrilineal community, the ebusua. This structural model utilizes myths and concepts, rites, dreams, and elements that form the basis for human development among the Akan people. Applying the work of Erik Erikson and James Fowler, the author examines the vast, systematized, and holistic Akan concept of personality.
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African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors
2021, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, Hamilton Books
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African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors
2011, University Press of America, Incorporated
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African spirituality: on becoming ancestors
1997, Africa World Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-167) and index.
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