Tete wↄ bi ka, tete wↄ bi kyerɛ: Pius Agyemang's Sacred Music and Ghana's Catholic Liturgical Inculturation felicity apaah

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Journal of Africana Religions Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.5325/jafrireli.11.1.0077
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Abstract:This article provides an ethnographic reading into Catholic liturgical music rooted in African indigenous concepts. It analyzes some selected lyrics of the compositions of Pius Agyemang, SVD, who was a versatile Ghanaian Catholic composer and historian with vast knowledge in Ghanaian culture, to explore the nexus between Christian religiosity and being an African. These songs are not just literary texts but indigenous theology in action that expresses the religious understanding and reflections of a people within the context of Ghanaian indigenous knowledge system's philosophy. The article shows how Pius Agyemang's works provide a paradigm of indigenous theology that combines the Asante thought-form and culture with indigenous expressions of the Christian faith. It argues that there is complementarity between Christianity and the indigenous knowledge system's philosophy that situates Christian belief in a stronger way in the Ghanaian traditional setting and serves as a relevant source of African Christian epistemology.
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太特wↄ 比卡,tete wↄ 毕:阿吉芒的圣乐与加纳的天主教宗教教化
摘要:本文对根植于非洲土著观念的天主教礼仪音乐进行民族志解读。它分析了Pius Agyemang, SVD的一些歌词,他是一位多才多艺的加纳天主教作曲家和历史学家,对加纳文化有着广泛的了解,探索基督教信仰与非洲人之间的联系。这些歌曲不仅是文学文本,也是土著神学的实践,在加纳土著知识体系的哲学背景下,表达了一个民族的宗教理解和反思。这篇文章展示了Pius Agyemang的作品如何提供了一个本土神学的范例,将阿散蒂思想形态和文化与基督教信仰的本土表达结合起来。它认为基督教与土著知识体系哲学之间存在互补性,这种哲学将基督教信仰置于加纳传统环境中,并作为非洲基督教认识论的相关来源。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Africana Religions publishes critical scholarship on Africana religions, including the religious traditions of African and African Diasporic peoples as well as religious traditions influenced by the diverse cultural heritage of Africa. An interdisciplinary journal encompassing history, anthropology, Africana studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, and other allied disciplines, the Journal of Africana Religions embraces a variety of humanistic and social scientific methodologies in understanding the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of Africana religions.
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