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Unpacking the sense of the sacred : a reader in the study of religions / written by faculty past and present of the Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon on the occasion of the university's 65th anniversary ; editors: Abamfo O. Atiemo, Ben-Willie K. Golo, Lawrence K. Boakye.

Contributor(s): Atiemo, Abamfo Ofori [editor.] | Golo, Ben-Willie K [editor.] | Boakye, Lawrence K [editor.] | University of Ghana [issuing body.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: University of Ghana readers: ; Arts and humanities series: no. 7.Publisher: Oxfordshire, UK : Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited ; [Legon, Ghana] : University of Ghana, Legon, 2014Description: xiv, 203 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780992843625 (pbk.); 0992843626Subject(s): Religions -- Study and teaching -- GhanaLOC classification: BL41 | .U57 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
What is religion? The question of definition in the study of religions / Abamfor O. Atiemo -- Religion and democratisation: a perspective / Rose Mary Amenga-Etego -- Africans in saffron robes: Ghanaian experiences in Oriental spirituality / Elom Dovlo -- Teaching and learning African indigenous religions at the University of Ghana: challenges and prospects / Elizabeth Amoah -- Religion and society: a study in church and state relations in Ghana's first republic / Kwesi Dickson -- Does philosophy of religion really destroy religious faith? / Harry L. K. Agbanu -- Thomas Aquinas' theory of peace / Lawrence Boakye -- Ghanaian Muslim women negotiating leadership space for self-actualization / Rabiatu Ammah -- Biblical exegesis in the African context: a communicative approach / George Ossom-Batsa -- A socio-political reading of the New Testament: re-ordering of power in Mark's gospel / Daniel J. Antwi -- African church historiography reconsidered: some manifestations of African initiatives in the planting, nursing and growth of the Methodist Church Ghana / Cephas N. Omenyo -- Christian thought and the African experience: a survey of approaches to theology in the contemporary African academy / Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo -- Globalization and the humanities: a perspective from the God-word / John S. Pobee -- Department for the study of religions and African Christian theology: a perspective from the 1970s / James C. Thomas.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL41 .U57 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903392328

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is religion? The question of definition in the study of religions / Abamfor O. Atiemo -- Religion and democratisation: a perspective / Rose Mary Amenga-Etego -- Africans in saffron robes: Ghanaian experiences in Oriental spirituality / Elom Dovlo -- Teaching and learning African indigenous religions at the University of Ghana: challenges and prospects / Elizabeth Amoah -- Religion and society: a study in church and state relations in Ghana's first republic / Kwesi Dickson -- Does philosophy of religion really destroy religious faith? / Harry L. K. Agbanu -- Thomas Aquinas' theory of peace / Lawrence Boakye -- Ghanaian Muslim women negotiating leadership space for self-actualization / Rabiatu Ammah -- Biblical exegesis in the African context: a communicative approach / George Ossom-Batsa -- A socio-political reading of the New Testament: re-ordering of power in Mark's gospel / Daniel J. Antwi -- African church historiography reconsidered: some manifestations of African initiatives in the planting, nursing and growth of the Methodist Church Ghana / Cephas N. Omenyo -- Christian thought and the African experience: a survey of approaches to theology in the contemporary African academy / Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo -- Globalization and the humanities: a perspective from the God-word / John S. Pobee -- Department for the study of religions and African Christian theology: a perspective from the 1970s / James C. Thomas.

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