We're proud to announce the publication of "The Forgotten: Reconstructing and Reclaiming African Spirituality in the Post-Truth Era" by Dr Teboho Pitso. A groundbreaking work tracing African spirituality's influence on Christianity. The author challenges colonial myths, highlights African genius, and argues African spirituality significantly shaped Christianity. "Pitso makes the powerful and convincing argument that African spirituality shaped Christianity in significant ways." ~ Professor Jacob K. Olupona Get this vital scholarly contribution on African religions today by contacting Maylene at orders@africansunmedia.co.za. Read what the independent peer reviewers had to say about this scholarly output in the comments below. #Research #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublishing #AfricanSunMedia #SunPress
“The author captures the essence of African spirituality in its diversity in the following apt rendition: ‘The universe, in African spirituality, includes the human world, the physical world, and asomatous beings (spirits) with benevolent and malevolent intent. The highest form of asomatous beings is the Supreme Being, who is considered as Omniscient (all-knowing), Omnipotent (all-powerful), and Omnibenevolent (all-good). Living humans have no direct access to this Supreme Being, except through ancestral homes …’. It cannot be denied that African spirituality predates Judaism, Hinduism and Islam in their articulation of the immanence and transcendence of the Supreme Being.” ~ Prof Patrick LO Lumumba, Advocate of the High Courts of Kenya and Tanganyika, Certified International Mediator
“After going through the eleven chapters in this volume, I discovered that it disseminates original research that contributes to the role and position of spirituality in Africa and beyond. The book demonstrates how the Global South’s episteme has all the right to claim its stake in hallowed spaces of knowledge production. The volume manages to retrieve the stolen legacy of African thinking and innovations as well as critique the epistemic disobedience of coloniality.” ~ Dr Vengesai Chimininge Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Zimbabwe Open University