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Another World is Possible

Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker Peoples

Author: Dwight N. Hopkins & Marjorie Lewis

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... ...read more

ISBN-13: 9781845533939
ISBN-10: 1845533933
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 01/10/2009
Format: Paperback
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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 books 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.
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On the whole, we are better educated about how it is with the world because of this excellent volume. I commend it to all who yearn for and work for the possibility of a just and egalitarian world.' Revd Dr Jonathan Gichaara, The Methodist Church in Britain, Honorary Research Scholar