| Corporate Personality in Traditional Igbo Society and the Sacrament of Reconciliation Contributor(s): Echema, Austin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631491859 ISBN-13: 9783631491850 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $107.21 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Ethnic & Tribal - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - General - Religion | Christian Theology - Anthropology |
| Dewey: 299.683 |
| Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie |
| Physical Information: 334 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contemporary studies in both anthropology and sociology reveal that rites develop and have meaning within the life of particular communities and their culture. Rites are thus human creations, though in a unique way. When rites and the words that go with them are no longer affecting choices about the crucial issues of life, they gradually lose their status; they are revised or even rejected. This appears to be the fate of the sacrament of reconciliation today. Although so central in the mission of Jesus that it became a sacrament in his Church, reconciliation has fallen into disuse at a time when most needed. This book contends that the importation of cultural elements, notions, signs and symbols from a different cultural setting to another is responsible for the crisis in the present practice of confession among the Igbo Christians. |