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African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and present points to Africans’ continuing recognition of certain natural phenomena and places as sacred. Western influence, the introduction of Christianity and Islam, as well as modernity, have not succeeded in completely obliterating African spirituality and sacred observances, especially as these relate to space in its various iterations. Indeed, Africans, on the continent and in the Diasporas, have responded to the challenges of history, environmentalism, and sustainability with sober and versatile responses in their reverence for sacred space as expressed through a variety of religious, historical, and spiritual practices, as this volume attempts to show.
‘BioDun J. Ogundayo is associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Pittsburgh.Julius O. Adekunle is professor of African history at Monmouth University.
Chapter 1: African Sacred Places in the AmericasKevin YoungChapter 2: History and the Sacred: The Royal Tombs of IgbohoJulius O. AdekunleChapter 3: Rituals and African Space: Funeral Rites and Intergenerational Transmission of PovertyDonald O. OmaguChapter 4: Sacred Spaces and Ritual Performances in Ejagamland of CameroonEmmanuel Mbah and Tom Victor NtuiChapter 5:Masjid: Sacred Space in Nigerian Islam Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe and Muhammad KyariChapter 6: The Metaphysics of Space in Yoruba Traditional Religion ’BioDun J. OgundayoChapter 7: Sacred Spaces: Mountains in Yoruba SpiritualityEnoch Olujide GbadegesinChapter 8: Tradition and Modernity: The Dynamics of the Management of Osun Sacred GrovesSaheed Balogun AmusaChapter 9: African Sacred Groves and SustainabilityFortune SibandaChapter 10: Space, Art, and Religion in Changó, el gran putasHawwkayoo N. ZoggyieChapter 11: Islam and Ancient Sacred Places in HausalandMukhtar Umar Bunza and Adamu Musa KotorkoshiChapter 12: Sacred Space and Time in an African UniversityOluwasegun Aluko
African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the functional relationship between “space, geography and imagined in relation to African Spirituality.” It is highly commended to scholars and students of religions.