Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology by Pamela Ayo Yetunde

Author:Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319944548
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

I asked Marcella whether the intergenerational transmission of her spirituality fell within or outside an African spirituality. She responded:I think it was very African even though I always wondered why my mom and grandmother liked going to like a quieter church because I felt like every time I, when I was in middle school and high school when I was going to church with my other friends there were the tambourines and the guitars and what I learned later in college was, what I learned about Africa was about enslavement practices and colonialism and when I started taking classes about the African diaspora—the shout or field hollers—those are all things in different parts of the new world, to carry on traditions and it felt like reading tea leaves. I do think that was the only way of learning more about the African traditions. After studying abroad in Brazil I always felt, like in the largest African population outside of Nigeria, you know just seeing the way Dahomey, the religions of Dahomey in West Africa has strong traditions in Brazil, I [saw that] some of the same ways we eat our food, interact with each other as African Americans, and some Black Americans may not want to acknowledge it, but there are definitely remnants of Africanist, we interact as spiritual people. [Dahomey is] like a family of traditions which springs from the western part of the continent of Africa and so when you learn about like Santeria or like Brazilian Condumble or even like Haitian Vodun those styles of spirituality from that region of Africa are, you know that is what I was taught.

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