[PDF] African Sacred Spaces eBook

Author : 'BioDun J. Ogundayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498567436

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This book focuses on space in African and Black religion and spirituality through the lenses of area studies, African and black diaspora studies, history and culture, cultural studies, ecotourism, environmentalism, and sustainability.

Author : 'biodun J. Ogundayo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498567442

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This book focuses on space in African and Black religion and spirituality through the lenses of area studies, African and black diaspora studies, history and culture, cultural studies, ecotourism, environmentalism, and sustainability.

Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780865437074

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How do Africans conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, constructions, imaginings of spaces and places affect, and in turn are affected by, social, economic and political change. These are some of the questions answered in this, the first book of its kind to address systematically the themes of of space and spatiality.

Author : Samina Quraeshi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0873658590

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Quraeshi provides a vision of Islam in South Asia enriched by art and by a female perspective on the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith. An account of a journey through the author’s childhood homeland, the book reveals the deeply spiritual nature of major centers of Sufism in the central and northwestern heartlands of South Asia.

Author : Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes Post
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 9781592219551

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The fundamental changes in society and culture are forcing us to reconsider the position of sacred space, and to do this within the broader context of ritual and religious dynamics and what is called a 'spatial turn'. This collection of studies on sacred space concerns itself with both perspectives by exploring place-bound dynamics of the sacred in Africa and Europe. Cultural dynamics, identities and ownership, and contestations are very much interrelated. The essays and cases show that, via these contested fields, identities are always at stake.

Author : Jualynne E. Dodson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826343538

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Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

Author : Louis P. Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253218225

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This volume examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through the lens of popular practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred space in America. Contributors explore how dedication sermons document shifting understandings of the meetinghouse in early 19th-century Connecticut; the changes in evangelical church architecture during the same century and what that tells us about evangelical religious life; the impact of contemporary issues on Catholic church architecture; the impact of globalization on the construction of traditional sacred spaces; the urban practice of Jewish space; nature worship and Central Park in New York; the mezuzah and domestic sacred space; and, finally, the spiritual aspects of African American yard art.

Author : Grace Turner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1683400364

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"Provides new insights into how enslaved and freed Africans in the New World navigated racialized landscapes while honoring the memories of their dead."--Laurie A. Wilkie, coauthor of Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation "Turner's unique hybrid approach makes this book a valuable resource in the study of the African diaspora."--Rosalyn Howard, author of Black Seminoles in the Bahamas The Anglican Church established St. Matthew's Parish on the eastern side of Nassau to accommodate a population increase after British Loyalists migrated to the Bahamas in the 1780s. The parish had three separate cemeteries: the churchyard cemetery and Centre Burial Ground were for whites, but the Northern Burial Ground was officially consecrated for nonwhites in 1826 by the Bishop of Jamaica. In Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space, Grace Turner posits that the African-Bahamian community intentionally established this separate cemetery in order to observe non-European burial customs. Analyzing the landscape and artifacts found at the site, Turner shows how the community used this space to maintain a sense of social and cultural belonging despite the power of white planters and the colonial government. Although the Northern Burial Ground was covered by storm surges in the 1920s, and later a sidewalk was built through the site, Turner's fieldwork reveals a wealth of material culture. She points to the cemetery's location near water, trees planted at the heads of graves, personal items left with the dead, and remnants of food offerings as evidence of mortuary practices originating in West and Central Africa. According to Turner, these African-influenced ways of memorializing the dead illustrate W. E. B. Du Bois's idea of "double consciousness"--the experience of existing in two irreconcilable cultures at the same time. Comparing the burial ground with others in Great Britain and the American colonies, Turner demonstrates how Africans in the Atlantic diaspora did not always adopt European customs but often created a separate, parallel world for themselves. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series