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Traditional African Religion, Africa Worldviews & Development

Traditional African Religion, Africa Worldviews & Development. HANDICAPS. IGNORANCE PREJUDICE NARROW DEFINITION OF THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH. THE AIMS OF OUR STUDY. How these beliefs have inspired worldviews and moulded cultures, its consequences.

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Traditional African Religion, Africa Worldviews & Development

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  1. Traditional African Religion, Africa Worldviews & Development

  2. HANDICAPS • IGNORANCE • PREJUDICE • NARROW DEFINITION OF THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

  3. THE AIMS OF OUR STUDY • How these beliefs have inspired worldviews and moulded cultures, its consequences. • To strategize to evangelize and transform Africa

  4. Leo Frobenius, a German explorer in his book, " The Voice of Africa" stated that before he set foot in Africa he had read in a German magazine that, "Before the introduction of a genuine faith and a higher standard of culture by the Arabs, the natives had no political organization nor strictly speaking, any religion. Therefore, in examining the pre-Mohammedan condition of the Negro races we must confine ourselves to the description of their crude fetishism, their brutal and often cannibalistic customs, their vulgar repulsive idols ... None but the most primitive instincts determine the lives and conduct of Negroes who lacked every kind of ethical inspiration". Leo Frobenius,The voice of Africa 1913.vol.1,pp.1f

  5. MAIN FEATURES • Exist objectively and in fact • Indigenous value system • Practice by millions of world-wide • Timeless

  6. GOD

  7. ANCESTRAL SPIRITS/LIVING DEAD

  8. Birago Diop. A Senegalese said “those who are dead are never gone; they are there in the thickening shadow, the dead are not under the earth, they are in the tree that rustles, they are in the wood that groans, they are in the water that runs, they are in the hut, they are in the crowd, the dead are not dead. Those who are dead are never gone, they are in the breast of the woman,they are in the child who is wailing and the firebrand that flames. The dead are not under the earth, they are in the fire that is dying,they are in the grasses that weep, they are in the whimpering rocks,they are in the forest, they are in the house,the dead are not dead.”

  9. DIVINITIES/DIVINERS

  10. SPIRITS/ PRIESTS

  11. KINGS/QUEENS/CHIEFS/TRIBAL LEADERS

  12. PROPHETS

  13. HERBALIST/MEDICINEMEN/WOMEN

  14. RAINMAKERS

  15. SORCERERS

  16. WITCH/WIZARD

  17. ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF SACRIFICES • RECONCILIATION • REDEMPTION • SALVATION • CLEANSING

  18. CONCEPT OF SOCIETY/COMMUNITY • DEAD • LIVING • YET UNBORN

  19. Concept of Religion • Religious • Binds man and unseen powers • cement societies • Defines culture

  20. SUMMARY OF AFRICAN WORLDVIEW GOD ANCESTORS MAN DIVINITIES MAGICAL POWERS (SPIRITS) GOD’S FEET All these powers influence his life

  21. Health Social Econ. Traditional Africa Religion, Educ. Agric. Business Financial Political.

  22. CONSEQUENCES…..Athough they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him,…..and they exchanged the glory of immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles……They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the creator who is forever praised. Amen. Romans 1:21-32

  23. Lifestyles Laws Structures Principles Institutions Institutions Principles Structures Laws Lifestyles Worldview Impact on Popular Culture Development Economics Politics Education Worldview Law FamilyLife Environment TheArts

  24. LIFE AFTER DEATH

  25. NATURE OF MAN

  26. NATURE OF EVIL

  27. MY RELATIONSHIP TO OTHERS

  28. MAN’S RELATIONSHIP TO NATURE

  29. PURPOSE OF WORK

  30. The late Dr Charles Malik, former President of the General Assembly of the UN and Security Council, at the dedication of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, stated the necessity for repentance:“The problem is not only to win souls but to save minds. If you win the whole world and lose the mind of the world, you will soon discover you have not won the world. Indeed, it may turn out that you have actually lost the world.”] Charles Malik, The two tasks (Westchester, IL: Cornerstone Books, 1980), pp. 31-32, 34.

  31. IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY.

  32. Secretariat SAMARITAN STRATEGY Ghana & West Africa Office, Samaritan House, Fise near Amasaman, P.O. Box DK 251,Accra.Ghana, Tel/Fax. 233-21-290246/5, Cell: 233-244-206288 E-mail: samaritanstrategy@gmail.com ampadu@ghanatel.com.gh Web sites :www.disciplenations.org www.harvestfoundation.org

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