The spirituality of African peoples : the search for a common moral discourse /
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| Author / Creator: | Paris, Peter J., 1933- |
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| Imprint: | Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xii, 194 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1682456 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Africa: Revolution in Understanding. Moral Challenges to Scholarship. African Challenges to Colonial Scholarship. African American Challenges to Racist Scholarship. African and African American Challenges to Social Ethics
- Ch. 2. God: The Source and Ground of All Life. African Understandings of God. African American Theological Syncretism. African and African American Moral Syncretism. African and African American Survival Theologies
- Ch. 3. Community: The Goal of the Moral Life. African and African American Understandings of Ancestral Life. African and African American Understandings of Leadership. African and African American Understandings of Slavery. African and African American Views of Pluralism and Unity
- Ch. 4. Family: The Locus of Moral Development. The African Family: Typical Features of Moral Significance. The African American Family: Typical Features of Moral Significance
- Ch. 5. Person: The Embodiment of Moral Virtue. The African View of Personhood. African Views of Personal Destiny. Conflicting Views of Liberty and Authority. African American Views of Personhood
- Ch. 6. Ethics: African and African American Social Ethics. The African Factor in the African American Experience. Virtue Theory. Some African and African American Moral Virtues. The Christian Factor in African and African American Social Ethics.