Stifling Human Responsibility? Human Agency and Transcendency in African Spirituality and Cultural Idioms
This article is an African traditional religious and cultural analysis of human responsibility as expressed in proverbs and idioms that demand human agency and transcendence in chiShona, Zimbabwean isiNdebele, and isiZulu languages. The analysis is done in line with the common spiritual belief that...
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Main Author: | Collium Banda |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
2024-12-01
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Series: | Journal for the Study of Religion |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/ReligionStudy/article/view/3696 |
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