Olodumare
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The Philosophy of Olodumare and Shango
The Philosophy of Olodumare and Shango is a work designed for the thinking man. It details the thorny issue of black metaphysics. Oswald Eckles Jr treats of the nature of the black man versus the other. It contains some hard truths about the white and black races. Oswald Eckles Jr penetrating insights into Western philosophy details where African Philosophy has gone wrong and the road African Philosophers should now take. In The Philosophy of Olodumare and Shango, Shango is the black man, God is the white man, and Shango and God are equal. His philosophy of States states that the finite State is the infinite State whereas the finite is illusory and the infinite is real; consequently, man is two States in one. The two States are one being called Shango! Mr. Eckles treats of Aesthetics, and makes the attempt to integrate Black metaphysics with the metaphysics of the Western world by deconstructing the categories of Aristotle! And creating a daring and original philosophy of mind!
Santeria
Author: Miguel A. De La Torre
language: en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date: 2004-08-23
A guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santería is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. With the exile of thousands of Cubans after Castro's revolution in 1959, Santería came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition, one about which most people in America's mainstream know very little. De La Torre explains the worldview, myths, rituals, and history of Santería, and discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today.--From publisher description.
The Doctrine of God in African Christian Thought
Noting the relationship between philosophy and the doctrine of the Trinity, this book offers the African pre-Christian understanding of God and the "Ntu"-metaphysics as theoretical gateways for African reflections on the doctrine of the Trinity.