A Philosophical Concept Of Agwu In Igbo Land

Author : Agwu Christopher Agwu
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490706267
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land written by Agwu Christopher Agwu and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved. To do this, Agwu has examined the concept in all its tendencies and ramifications. It tries to explain the relationship between Agwu and other creatures from the sources of life-Supreme Being-to the least inanimate object. The moral standard set by Agwu to its worshippers has been a masterpiece incentive and also a source of inspiration to ordinary mortals who watch with admiration the special Agwu elect.

Author : Agwu Christopher Agwu
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490706275
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land written by Agwu Christopher Agwu and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved. To do this, Agwu has examined the concept in all its tendencies and ramifications. It tries to explain the relationship between Agwu and other creatures from the sources of lifeSupreme Beingto the least inanimate object. The moral standard set by Agwu to its worshippers has been a masterpiece incentive and also a source of inspiration to ordinary mortals who watch with admiration the special Agwu elect.

Author : Jude C. U. Aguwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agwu Deity in Igbo Religion written by Jude C. U. Aguwa and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agwu is the Igbo patron deity of health and divination, and one of the basic Igbo theological concepts employed to explain good and evil, health and sickness, wealth and poverty, and fortune and misfortune. Belief in the Agwu was widespread in thepast. Most communities had some Agwu people, who were considered victims of its malignant powers or recipients of its positive influences, such as priest-diviners and physicians. This books analyses this belief system in past and present times, and posits the view that it still exists but to a lesser degree or in a modified forms. The author conducted his research through personal interviews and observer-participant methods. Themes range from beliefs about the Agwu deity through the rites and initiation into Agwu cult, to the guild of diviners and traditional healers. The six chapters cover: supernaturalism and disease causation; the anthropocentricity of Agwu; art and symbol in the Agwu cult; the rites of Dibia initiation; significance and consequences of Dibia initiation; and Agwu therapeutic forces in a time perspective.

Author : F. U. Okafor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Igbo Philosophy of Law written by F. U. Okafor and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first attempt at the philosophical articulation and projection of the Igbo concept of law and the role of law in the traditional environment. In the Igbo traditional setting, the rules of law are uncodified. The author, who teaches philosophy of law and logic at the University of Nigeria, defines the law of a given community as the body of rules recognised as binding by its members. On this concept of law, he has based his attempt to elucidate the philosophical underpinning of those rules recognised in Igbo traditional legal system as law. Unless the philosphical foundation is understood, the traditional law, machinery for enforcement, and legislative and judicial processes may appear incomprehensible. The first part gives a descriptive insight into the moral, religious, socio-political and legal background of the Igbo. The second part is devoted to the fundamental questions concerning the concept of law, the various types of laws, the reciprocal influence between law and Igbo religion and the end of laws. Finally, the author examines the nature of right in Igbo traditional thought and locates the philosophical background.

Author : Bartholomew Abanuka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Igbo World written by Bartholomew Abanuka and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory E. M. Adibe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complex Features of Igbo Traditional Ogwu written by Gregory E. M. Adibe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. Uzodinma Nwala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Igbo Philosophy written by T. Uzodinma Nwala and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Solomon Amadiume
Publisher : Artiz Communication Enugu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Igbo Tradition and Philosophy written by Solomon Amadiume and published by Artiz Communication Enugu. This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Angulu Onwuejeogwu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afa Symbolism and Phenomenology in Nri Kingdom and Hegemony written by M. Angulu Onwuejeogwu and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erika Dyck
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262376903
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding Mindscapes written by Erika Dyck and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century. The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits. Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.