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African Spirituality : On Becoming Ancestors, Paperback / softback Book

African Spirituality : On Becoming Ancestors Paperback / softback

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Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality.

Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life.

As a way of living, African spirituality begins when an individual becomes morally and ethically responsible for one’s own actions while engaged on an ethical path (?bra B?) in pursuance of one’s unique career endeavor (Nkrabea).

Though an individual quest, society is, however, the arbiter of one’s ethical and moral life, when society confers on the person adjudged a success the stage title of Nana.

At old age, ?bra B? ends as an active endeavor. However, as repositories of wisdom, senior elders continue to inculcate in succeeding generations the principles, art, and mastery of ideal life (?bra pa).

Then upon death, senior elders are transformed into deities, bequeathing to living descendants names worthy of evocation and worship.

Indeed, this book is the first study of its kind to draw on the experiences of an entire people, their psychological dispositions and effects on the Akan during adulthood.

Thus, this book brings a unique perspective to the study of spirituality, religion, developmental psychological theory, what it means to achieve perfection as an elder on earth, and upon death join the esteemed company of the Nananom Nsamanfo (Ancestors).

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