Trumping the Devil!

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Afe Adogame
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
African Spirituality ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Ritual Praxis

African spiritualities are hardly static or unchanging. They are dynamic and constantly in flux. African spiritualities are usually not thought out in the agora of desk theology but lived out in the spiritual marketplace, imbuing every life facet in ways that cannot be separated from quotidian, mundane thought. How do African spiritualities contrast with other social dimensions of spirituality? This chapter explores African spiritualities as spiritualities of the marketplace, concerned with the pursuit of cosmic balance, harmony, and human flourishing via a matrix of worldviews and ritual praxis. Through exploring the diversity of African spirituality and cosmologies: the forms, meanings, and expressions that link them, I demonstrate how and to what extent the religious, moral values and imaginaries pervading indigenous worldviews in Africa and the African diaspora are continually contested and negotiated.

scholarly journals Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets

2020 ◽  
pp. 095001702097156
Author(s):  
Anastasios Hadjisolomou ◽  
Sam Simone
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Food Retailing ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Organizational Policies

This article gives voice to a front-line manager in food retailing, discussing her experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak which, overnight, became an ‘essential service’, leaving employees exposed to the virus. The article utilizes the ‘moral economy’ framework to understand how organizational policies, which were developed by senior management and implemented by front-line managers, denied human flourishing and well-being during a period of socio-economic crisis. The article captures the complexity of morality in organizations across managerial levels. Questioning the morality of managerial decisions during the pandemic and emphasizing how these are driven by the intense competition in the market, it reveals that front-line managers are caught between conflicting moral values and expectations. This study contributes to the ‘moral economy’ framework suggesting that the structural constraints of front-line managerial authority have challenged their moral values and narrowed the space for safe and meaningful work and well-being for front-line managers and employees.

African, Latina, Feminist, and Decolonial

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Theresa Delgadillo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Embodied Spirituality ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Salsa Music

This essay proposes that Marta Moreno Vega’s 2004 memoir, When the Spirits Dance Mambo, is a Latina feminist narrative that foregrounds African diaspora worldviews, thought, forms, and practices as resources for cultivating a path toward decoloniality. In this memoir, Abuela’s spiritual leadership and her introduction of the young Cotito into the practice of Espiritismo become a central prism through which Cotito innovatively apprehends the links between sacred and secular realms in the burgeoning mambo and salsa music scene of New York. Even more importantly, her engagement with this diasporan worldview allows Cotito to critically apprehend prevailing gender norms and their limitations. This essay, therefore, argues that an Afro-Latina feminism emerges in this memoir from the practice of embodied spirituality that also has sonic, aesthetic, and social dimensions in everyday life.

The Prosperity Gospel in the African Diaspora

Exchange ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-380
Author(s):  
Mika Vähäkangas
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
The Church

The prosperity gospel in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Hosanna Chapel, Helsinki, Finland, builds primarily on African indigenous worldviews rather than serving as a theological justification for capitalism. It is a contextual African interpretation of the gospel in a situation of tension between the expectations of extended families back home, those of the new society in which the immigrants find themselves, and the church. The African experience and heritage come to the fore especially in the strong emphasis placed on interpersonal relations, particularly with family members and God, as an essential part of prosperity. Naïve faith in the bliss of equal opportunities within capitalism is moderated by differentiation between realistic economic expectations and the special blessings that are endowed upon believers. When condemning the prosperity gospel wholesale, there is the risk of misinterpreting non-Western theologies and of morally castigating the weakest for their attempts to survive global capitalism instead of combating its oppressive structures.

scholarly journals Tattoos and tableaus of flourishing: Qohelet and African spirituality in transformation

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalie E. Steenkamp-Nel
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
African Spirituality ◽  
Constructive Engagement

African spirituality studies have established that Africans regard flourishing as connected to the secular and the sacred. African human flourishing as a multi-faceted concept remains relatively unexplored though. Guided by a spiritual transformation approach, I suggested that African lives, activities, choices and beliefs are dynamically integrated with Qohelet’s interpretation of joy towards flourishing. I offered differing interpretations of familiar ‘joy’ texts in Qohelet in an effort to breathe new life into the texts themselves, along with the interdisciplinary dialogue more generally. The theoretical framework of spiritual transformation will be followed in order to relate ‘flourishing’ and ‘joy’ to its African relevance. The interaction between Biblical scholarship and African spirituality resulted in attaining a more profound understanding of the African human person. African spiritual transformation and its Biblical resonances can guide readers in harnessing their own range of joy experiences, unravel daily issues and enhance modern flourishing.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The research is positioned in the interface between Biblical scholarship and African spirituality. The sensorial aspect of joy can be explored in Liturgy and Practical Theology in order to assist churches in accommodating joy. Spirituality can support Missiology on its way to congregational and community flourishing. The constructive engagement with the natural sciences can assist diverse societies, individuals, families, biological bodies, social groups and political institutions in South Africa to understand with integrity the origin and ongoing dynamics of their spirituality.

scholarly journals Phrasematic Introduction to Dialectal Axiolinguistics

2021 ◽  
pp. 242-256
Author(s):  
Anna Tyrpa
Keyword(s):  
Moral Values ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
The Devil

The current works related to analysing value in Polish dialects have been presented in the article. The author has selected six types of values. For each of them, two opposite values in the form of adjectives have been chosen. The author has shown how these values are expressed by dialectal phrasemes.Cognitive values: wise (e. g. mądry jak Salomon [as wise as Solomon]) – stupid (e. g. głupi jak motyka [as stupid as a hoe]).Moral values: good (e. g. dobry jak lato [as good as summer]) – evil (e. g. zły jak czart [as bad as the devil]).Vital values: healthy (e. g. zdrowy jak dzwon [as healthy as a bell]) – ill (e. g. chory na śmierć [ill with death]).Values of feelings: satiated (e. g. wiatrem syt [satiated with wind]) – hungry (e. g. głodny jak Żydowa kobyła [as hungry as a Jew’s horse]).Aesthetic values: beautiful (e. g. piękny jak z obrazka [as beautiful as from a picture]) – ugly (e. g. brzydki jak papuga [as ugly as a parrot]).Economic values: rich (e. g. bogaty jak patyk w lesie [as rich as a stick in the forest]) – poor (e. g. biedny jak mysz [as poor as a mouse]).

The Theological Virtue of Hope as a Social Virtue

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 230-250
Author(s):  
Aaron D. Cobb ◽  
Adam Green
Keyword(s):  
Extended Mind ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Group Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Theological Virtue ◽  
Shifting Attention

Analyses of the theological virtue of hope tend to focus on its interior dispositional structure, shifting attention away from the social dimensions crucial to its formation and exercise. We argue that one can better appreciate the place of hope in Christian thought by attending to communal features that have been peripheral to or excluded from traditional analyses. To this end, we employ resources from the literature on the extended mind and group agency to develop an account of the theological virtue of hope as a socially extended virtue—that is, a virtue scaffolded by and enacted within a community whose practices are ordered toward a shared conception of human flourishing.

The devil and William Dabney. An epidemiological postscript

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (8) ◽  
pp. 645-648
Author(s):  
F. J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
The Devil

The Devil Is in the Details

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 1088-1088
Author(s):  
Louis G. Tassinary
Keyword(s):  
The Devil
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