Igbo Funeral Rites Today: Anthropological and Theological Perspectives

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LIT Verlag Münster, 2010 - 91 páginas
Igbo Funeral Rites is about the rigorous and complex nature of death and burial obsequies in Igboland. Analytical as it is descriptive and anthropological as it is theological, the book is an attempt to provide new insights for handling some of the pastoral challenges of Igbo funeral rites. It exhibits admirable maturity by acknowledging the need for flexibility along with harmonization.
 

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Rites of Decorporation and Transition
29
Traditional Values and Virtues of Igbo Funeral Rites
47
The Churchs Response to Igbo Funeral Rites
57
Recommendations and Conclusion
70
Bibliography
84
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