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Foundational Assumptions in Traditional Religion
Sixbert SANGWA
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Weitere Religionen
Beschreibung
Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: 88, Nations University, course: African Traditional Religion, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the idea of the fundamental assumptions of traditional African religion. The author has attempted to locate the assumptions underlying the beliefs and practices of traditional religion. Although the assumptions put forward are not necessarily proven to be true; they are assumed to be true but simply form hypotheses. It has been claimed that the belief that the dead and ancestral spirits have authority over the living drives many practices into African traditional practices. These include the veneration of family ancestors, offering sacrifices to the deceased, divination aimed at seeking insights from ancestral spirits, and other rituals aimed at appeasing or thanking the ancestors. While God is the source of all life within African religions, an individual has life only when he participates in the life transmitted by God through the relationship of beings. The established hierarchy belongs to both the invisible world and the visible world so that Life is a participation in God, but it is always mediated by someone who stands above the recipient in the hierarchy of being. This ontological hierarchy places God first, spirits second as extra-human beings, and humans third. As a result, Human participation in God is participation in the ontological hierarchy, in which God transmits life through ancestors.
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Traditional Religion and Christianity, Hierarchy and the Unity of Life in Africa, Ontology, Divination and Appeasing Spirits, the Power of the Deceased