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Metallic mercury use by South African traditional health practitioners: perceptions and practices
... The fact that the majority of THPs stated that mercury is only safe to use when administered by THPs and that 81 % responded that there is a need to reduce its toxicity before use implies that there is an awareness of ...
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The concept of diseases and health care in African traditional religion in Ghana
... an African way of understanding God … in the same way, there is an African way of understanding the world, the visible world around us – the cattle, trees, people and cities as well as the unseen world, the ...
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African traditional widowhood rites and their benefits and/or detrimental effects on widows in a context of African Christianity
... in African communities in spite of the ubuntu values and Christian teaching that emphasise love and caring, especially towards the grieving and thus vulnerable ...examine African traditional ...
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Exploring the possibility for African traditional religion to be included in a reimagined scriptural reasoning model
... an African, I will focus on African traditional religion (ATR), which is an oral tradition, and why it should be considered for inclusion In and among the many models developed for engaging in ...
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"There is no Real End" Biological Regeneration and the Resurgence of African Traditional Religion in the Contemporary World
... of African Traditional Religion in particular and in human society ...affiliation? African Traditional Religion predominates cultures in Africa and have its philosophical interpretations of ...
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Towards A “Deep” Ontology for African Traditional Medicine
... most African countries, this knowl- edge is transmitted orally from father to son, from mother to daughter or from master to ...of African traditional medicine (AT- M) has no child or when none of ...
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God, divinities and spirits in African traditional religious ontology
... in African religious ontology which we may not expatiate in this work such as: God is the absolute controller of the universe, God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient in Africa; the Supreme Being is one in ...
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A critical analysis on African Traditional Religion and the Trinity
... about African gods before the arrival of ...the African pre-Christian experience of ...the African God and the Christian ...into African languages, local names were used for ...the ...
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Forest Conservation in Kenya: Lessons from the African Traditional/Indigenous Education
... In African traditional societies, all members of the society were given “general” education for adaptation to and survival in the ...the African Traditional/indigenous education people were ...
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The Forest in African Traditional Thought and Practice: An Ecophilosophical Discourse
... most venerated tree in the Caribbean. What Rey argues about the Afro-Caribbean countries is equally true of mainland Africa. He argues that: “however pervasive is this spirit of reverence for trees in Haiti, it has been ...
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Utilitarianism And Symbolism Of African Traditional Graphics
... of African art from an illuminated Amharic manuscript is ...misunderstood African art as ...that African art lacked technical ability due to its low socioeconomic status ...appearances, ...
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The Familiar Witches’ Brew’: Towards an African Philosophy of Religion
... Indeed, African philosophy may be most revelatory of the whiteness of philosophy as a discipline, for in representing that which has long been held to be a contradiction in terms it highlights the very setting of ...
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Applying the Traditional African Education Model for Character Development in Nigeria
... the African traditional education, and to see its relevance vis-à-vis the modern type of education in order to re-direct the moral lives of the youths especially, as Nigeria starkly grapples with reality in ...
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The Place of Traditional Medicine in the African Society: The Science, Acceptance and Support
... Abstract: Traditional medicine (TM) has been described by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as one of the surest alternative means to achieve total health care coverage of the world’s ...most African ...
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Inaugural lecture: African spirituality, ethics and traditional healing - implications for indigenous South African social work education and practice
... underpinning African religion, spirituality and ethics predicated on the ethical principle of ubuntu (contraction of umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (a person is a person through other persons)); the differences between ...
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Introduction of the Teaching of Traditional Medicine in Medical Schools in Togo
... of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine is widespread in many countries of the world (Barnes, Powell-Griner, McFann, & Nahin, 2004; Mak & Faux, ...using traditional medi- cine to ...
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Gender mainstreaming and development in (african) igbo traditional religious society: a critical option for the new world order
... in African traditional society, the Yoruba and Benin kingdoms stand as a witness ...Igbo traditional history and politics have yielded resounding evidence of the institution of kingship in most parts ...
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Globalization and its challenges on the African conception of the person
... that, traditional identities are a safety belt that can save us from being fully absorbed into Western culture and that has proved to be so efficient in the process of not losing our moral values, our uniqueness ...
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... of traditional medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, primary healthcare, East Asian traditional medicine, Korean traditional medicine, Tibetan traditional medicine, Mongolian ...
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African Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Development
... that African environmental ethics can contribute to sustainable development as well as mitigate the devastating effects of global warming and climate change in ...continent. African environmental ethics ...
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