The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and CommunityThrough The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West. |
Contents
Living in Two Worlds | 1 |
Healing Ritual and Community | 21 |
The Healing Power of Nature | 37 |
Indigenous Technologies | 59 |
Mentors and the Life of Youth | 101 |
Elders and the Community | 121 |
The Elements of Ritual | 141 |
Dagara Cosmology and Ritual | 163 |
Preparing for Ritual | 189 |
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The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual ... Malidoma Patrice Somé No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
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