Library Guides: African American History Resources- HI 211: Roles of Religion and African Culture

Schewe Library Resources

West African Culture Dynamics: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives by B. K. Swartz (Editor); Raymond E. Dumett (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 3110800683
Publication Date: 2011 (originally published in 1980)
These conferences proceedings contain in part papers presented at the Ninth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
The Bible and African Culture by Humphrey Waweru
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1280875623
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
"How can African theology survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order? Dr. Humphrey M. Wawe contributes here a sound theological reflection using the hitherto unused methodological paradigm of mapping the inroads in the ìtransactionî between the Bible and African culture."

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Enriching Lives by Relearning African Culture: Relearning African Culture by Valerie Gladstone in The New York Times (2001)

African American Heritage from the National Archives
"The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media. "

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Traditional African Religion as a Neglected Form of Monotheism by Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe in Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry (2021).
- "Our aims are to articulate some core philosophical positions characteristic of traditional African religion and to argue that they merit consideration as monotheist rivals to standard interpretations of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition. In particular, we address the topics of how God's nature is conceived, how God's will is meant to bear on human decision-making, where one continues to exist upon the death of one's body, and how long one is able to exist without a body. For each of these topics, we note how traditional African religion posits claims that clash with mainstream Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and that, being 'prima facie' plausible, indicate the need for systematic cross-cultural philosophical debate."