"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... John Mbiti writes " death is something that concerns everybody , partly because it brings loss and sorrow to every family and community . " This universal occurrence is precarious for people whose perception of death is its sense of ...
... John Mbiti writes " death is something that concerns everybody , partly because it brings loss and sorrow to every family and community . " This universal occurrence is precarious for people whose perception of death is its sense of ...
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... John Mbiti " Africa has always had contact with the outside world , but religious and cultural influence from this contact cannot have flowed only one way : there was also a give - and - take process . " " 38 Thus an African worldview ...
... John Mbiti " Africa has always had contact with the outside world , but religious and cultural influence from this contact cannot have flowed only one way : there was also a give - and - take process . " " 38 Thus an African worldview ...
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... other than the God who is already known in the framework of traditional African religiosity . " 166 164 Felder , 82 . 165 Trulear , Lecture . 166 Paris , 28 . In African Religions and Philosophy , John Mbiti writes " 92.
... other than the God who is already known in the framework of traditional African religiosity . " 166 164 Felder , 82 . 165 Trulear , Lecture . 166 Paris , 28 . In African Religions and Philosophy , John Mbiti writes " 92.
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According African American funeral African American homegoing African and African African worldview theology American homegoing celebrations American homegoing services American homegoing traditions Annie Mae Johnson Anthony Heilbut attire belief system bereavement Biblical Black Church Black preacher Brown County burial casket ceremony Charles Durant Christian African Americans Coevolution Quarterly color continuity of African Cornel West Crissman cultural continuity cultural practices deceased demonstrative expression display dress Elaine Nichols emotions enslaved Africans Eric Lincoln eulogy Euro-American European family and friends family members Felder final funeral home Funeral Traditions Gospel music grandmother grandmother's hair wreaths Heaven honor Jindra John Mbiti living loved Masamba and Kalish Mbiti writes Mother Evans mourners mourning Orleans Jazz Funerals performative elements Precious Lord presence of family processional religion represented ritual Ron Brown singing Sis Fannie Sis Fannie's slavery song South Carolina spiritual spoken word survivors Sybil Kein Take My Hand wake Washington West African wore Yoruba