Proverbs and the African Tree of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proverbs and the African Tree of Life write by Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate. This book was released on 2014-08-07. Proverbs and the African Tree of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Proverbs and the African Tree of Life Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate juxtaposes chosen sayings from Proverbs and selected Ewe Folk proverbs using the agricultural metaphor of “grafting,” which she calls a “hermeneutic of grafting.” Though these two sets of sayings come from completely different cultural contexts, Akoto argues that folk sayings/proverbs, which abound in Africa, should be considered as an already mature, established tree on to which a piece of the biblical tree is spliced or engrafted to produce hybridized fruits that have uniquely different tastes than the fruits of each tree individually. This metaphorical grafting process allows the message of the Bible (in Proverbs) to be understood, imbibed and appropriated in Africa.
Proverbs and the African Tree of Life
Proverbs and the African Tree of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proverbs and the African Tree of Life write by Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate. This book was released on 2014. Proverbs and the African Tree of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Proverbs and the African Tree of Life Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutitate juxtaposes chosen sayings from Proverbs and selected Eue Folk proverbs using the agricultural metaphor of "grafting", which she calls a "hermeneutic of grafting". Though these two sets of sayings come from completely different cultural contexts, Akoto-Abutitate argues that folk sayings/proverbs, which abound in Africa, should be considered as an already mature, established tree on to which a piece of the biblical tree is spliced or engrafted to produce hybridized fruits that have uniquely different tastes than the fruits of each tree individually. This metaphorical grafting process allows the message of the Bible (in Proverbs) to be understood, imbibed and appropriated in Africa. (Publisher).
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tree of Life write by Douglas Estes. This book was released on 2020-03-17. The Tree of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The tree of life is an iconic visual symbol at the edge of religious thought over the last several millennia. As a show of its significance, the tree bookends the Christian canon; yet scholarship has paid it minimal attention in the modern era. In The Tree of Life a team of scholars explore the origin, development, meaning, reception, and theology of this consequential yet obscure symbol. The fourteen essays trek from the origins of the tree in the texts and material culture of the ancient Near East, to its notable roles in biblical literature, to its expansion by early church fathers and Gnostics, to its rebirth in medieval art and culture, and to its place in modern theological thought.
African Proverbs for All Ages
African Proverbs for All Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Proverbs for All Ages write by Johnnetta Betsch Cole. This book was released on 2021-11-30. African Proverbs for All Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African Proverbs for All Ages is a beautifully-illustrated, engaging picture book about the power of proverbs, how they evolve over time, and the wisdom of various cultures in Africa. It has been said that a proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Whether you are young or old, proverbs can open your mind to a whole new way of seeing the world. We underestimate children when we assume they are incapable of understanding metaphor and deeper meaning. There are multiple ways that children learn, but for each method by which they learn, they need their imagination engaged and their visual sensibilities ignited. And as adults, we underestimate ourselves when we allow our lives to be about practical matters only. Proverbs can stir our soul and spark our imagination. --Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Ph.D. President Emerita of Spelman and Bennett Colleges In African Proverbs for All Ages, noted anthropologist and educator Dr. Johnetta Betsch Cole and award-winning illustrator Nelda LaTeef invite children and adults to explore and reflect on complex notions about relationships, identity, society, and the human condition. A Roaring Brook Press and Oprah Book
Life Under the Baobab Tree
Life Under the Baobab Tree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Under the Baobab Tree write by Kenneth N. Ngwa. This book was released on 2023-09-05. Life Under the Baobab Tree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as “religion” apart from its intimate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have affected Africana life and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora.
