African Initiated Churches as interlocutors of African spirituality of liberation against colonial spirituality of the empire

International tourist arrivals are projected to surpass 1.8 billion by 2030 on the back of rapid growth in emerging tourism economies. Tourism has emerged as an economic messiah for a plethora of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has emerged as a cost-effective means by which countries can diversify their economies, especially countries with low economies that depend on agricultural products to diversify their economies. Religious tourism can contribute to deeper economic benefit for a destination. The synthesis of literature adds to the paucity of academic gaze on religious tourism in Southern Africa. The synthesis takes the reader on a religious tourism journey that includes African spirituality, Pentecostal Christianity, and the interface between Africans spirituality and Christianity. These areas are neglected in the academic gaze and are outside the tourism beaten track, and these forms of religious tourism bring in much needed economic activities for areas on the tourism fringe.

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The Dialectics of Western Christianity and African Spirituality

Spirituality, Education & Society ◽

10.1007/978-94-6091-603-8_8 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 111-125

Author(s):

Akena Adyanga

Keyword(s):

African Spirituality

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Trumping the Devil!

10.1093/oso/9780197565001.003.0005 ◽

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.

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The sacred in traditional African spirituality

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work ◽

10.4324/9781315679853-10 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 64-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Raisuyah Bhagwan

Keyword(s):

African Spirituality

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Senghor, Léopold Sédar (1906–2001)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-z024-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Phyllis Taoua

Keyword(s):

Interwar Period ◽

Aime Cesaire ◽

African Culture ◽

Black African ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Philosophy Of Culture ◽

African Spirituality ◽

European Thought ◽

Modern Era ◽

Cultural Theorist

Léopold Sédar Senghor is one of the most influential African poets of the modern era. He also left his mark as a controversial cultural theorist and president of his native Senegal from 1960 until 1981. The poet and statesman participated with Aimé Césaire and Léon Gontran Damas in founding the négritude movement during the interwar period in Paris. Négritude was a cultural revolution that affirmed black African culture across geographical borders, combining a political vision of social justice for all peoples of African origin with an innovative poetic idiom. Senghor’s distinctive contribution to this avant-garde effort was a set of inter-related concepts with which he developed his theory of black African culture. The first was a notion of cross-cultural creativity entailing an interpenetration of African and European cultures. The second was a selective assimilation of certain aspects of French culture into an African conceptual framework. The third was an African version of socialism that integrated a community-centred ethics with a traditional African spirituality. Senghor believed that African culture had unique contributions to make to European thought, and worked to define a theory of culture based on dialogue, reciprocity and an inclusive humanism, which would pave the way for Africa’s integration into a civilization of the universal. His philosophy of culture is unsystematic; it appears as a collection of insights derived from various sources on the central theme of négritude.

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