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Another world is possible : spiritualities and religions of global darker peoples / edited by Dwight N. Hopkins and Majorie Lewis

Published
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 379 pages) : portrait
Additional Creators
Hopkins, Dwight N. and Lewis, Majorie
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Language Note
English.
Contents
pt. 1. India -- pt. 2. Japan -- pt. 3. Australia -- pt. 4. Hawaii -- pt. 5. England -- pt. 6. South Africa -- pt. 7. Botswana -- pt. 8. Zimbabwe -- pt. 9. Ghana -- pt. 10. Cuba -- pt. 11. Jamaica -- pt. 12. Brazil -- pt. 13. USA.
Summary
"Another World is Possible: Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker Peoples represents voices of darker skin peoples throughout the world. What they have in common is their mobilizing their own created religions and spiritualities to forge self-identities. Some claim direct links to centuries of Indigenous spiritual practices which have survived relatively in tact despite the invasion of foreign religions. Others have appropriated externally introduced religions and greatly modified these belief systems by combining or syncretizing them with Indigenous perspectives and practices. All authors indicate the celebration and positive utility of their communities' spiritualities and religions. Without them, not only would individuals have died, but entire cultures and contexts would have perished. Thus, religion and spirituality suggest survival and pragmatic purposes. From creation narratives to Trickster heroes and heroines, spirituality and religion incarnate meaning, as well as fashion meaning so that humans can make surviving and thriving sense of the ecology and all breathing realities. The gods, God, and ancestors give life to peoples and their cultures, ecologies, and economies, all in the service of aiding the human community to be more fully human as servants to what spiritualities and religions have facilitated on earth. This book speaks to the progressive role of spiritualities and religions for today. In that sense, it is a gift to the world from the darker skin peoples globally."--Back cover
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ISBN
9781315710945 (e-book ; PDF)
1315710943
1322509824
9781322509822
1317490460
9781317490463
1845537319
9781845537319
Note
Originally published 2009 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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