Communicating African Spirituality through Ecology: Challenges and Prospects for the 21st Century

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorGumo, S.
dc.contributor.authorGisege, S.O.
dc.contributor.authorRaballah, E.
dc.contributor.authorOuma, C.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-28T06:23:39Z
dc.date.available2017-12-28T06:23:39Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis review was set in the context of African spirituality and ecology. Specifically, the review addressed issues of African spirituality and the environment from a Kenyan context. Through analyses on existing literature, we examined African worldviews, determined how African spirituality was communicated through the environment, evaluated African ways of regulating the use of the environment, and explored challenges facing African spirituality and ecology today. Results show that African spirituality has been enhanced through the environment where humanity worshipped and venerated everything under the earth, on earth, between the earth and heavens and in the heavens above. Consequently, various methods to restrict the utilization of certain natural resources are employed as a way of conserving the environment. Additional findings demonstrate that African spirituality and ecology are currently facing a number of challenges, hence a major challenge of sustainability of African spirituality in regard to environment. From a spiritual point of view, it is therefore recommended that environmental diversity should be conserved through sustainable development where every person from grassroots level is involved in protecting and maintaining God‘s creation. We conclude that African knowledge and belief systems on environmental sustainability could be revitalized and used in environmental conservation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationReligions 2012, 3, 523–543; doi:10.3390/rel3020523en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/17982
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subjectCommunicationen_US
dc.subjectEcologyen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmenten_US
dc.subjectAfrican spiritualityen_US
dc.subjectAfricanen_US
dc.subjectWorldviewsen_US
dc.titleCommunicating African Spirituality through Ecology: Challenges and Prospects for the 21st Centuryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Communicating African Spirituality through Ecology Challenges and Prospects for the 21st Century.pdf
Size:
345.02 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Full Text Article
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
RP-Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences