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the search for a common moral discourse

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An edition of The spirituality of African peoples (1995)

The spirituality of African peoples

the search for a common moral discourse

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Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris sharpens the Afrocentric quest. He focuses on African "spirituality" - the religious and moral values embodied in African experience and pervading traditional African religious worldviews. From extensive comparative research and personal travel, Paris shows how such values were retained and modified in the diaspora, most notably in African American religious and moral thought and practice.

Traditional understandings of God, ancestral spirits, tribal community, family belonging, reciprocity, personal destiny and agency, he shows, have not only survived great cultural upheavals but remarkably even been enriched and enlivened. Paris's Pan-African focus, careful scholarship, and eye for ultimate values in varying cultural milieus combine here to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify the cultural foundations of black ethical life.

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Fortress Press
Language
English
Pages
194

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Subjects

Blacks, Ethics, Modern, Religion, Modern Ethics, African Americans, Negers, Geloof, Sociale ethiek, African americans, religion, Blacks, religion, Ethics, modern, 20th century, Black people

Places

Sub-Saharan Africa

Times

20th century

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-184) and index.

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Minneapolis

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Dewey Decimal Class
170/.89/96
Library of Congress
BR563.N4 P38 1995, BR563.N4P38 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 194 p. ;
Number of pages
194

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OL1107591M
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ISBN 10
0800628543
LCCN
94032866
OCLC/WorldCat
30976000
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1089906
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1938696

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