Virtues and Values - The African and African American Experience

Klappentext This brief volume is excerpted from Peter Paris's popular and influential work The Spirituality of African Peoples on African and African American Spirituality. Paris shows how the religious and moral values of Africa have pervaded African American life and thought. Focusing on six particular virtues, he explores how the African worldview enriched and ennobled African American notions of morality and values, public virtue, and meaningful life. Zusammenfassung Peter Paris shows how the religious and moral values of Africa have pervaded African American life and thought. Focusing on six particular virtues! he explores how the African worldview enriched and ennobled African American notions of morality and values! public virtue! and meaningful life.

Product details

• Authors: Paris, Peter J. Paris
• Assisted by: Peter J Paris (Editor), Peter J. Paris (Editor)
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2004
• EAN: 9780800636616
• ISBN: 978-0-8006-3661-6
• No. of pages: 84
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 178 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Facets; Facets
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works