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Title: The Hero With an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa by Clyde W. Ford ISBN: 0553378686 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75
Rating: 5
Summary: All God's Children
Comment: Increasingly, happily (albeit painfully)the new question for modern man and woman is "Am I my black brother's (sister's) keeper?" Conversely, "Am I my white brother's (sister's) keeper?" The answer is a resounding "Yes!". This book is a tremendous contribution toward the fulfillment of that Dream, toward a universal Philadelphia (phila = love; delphia = brother): the City of Brotherly Love, genuine agape, Unconditional Agape.
Rating: 5
Summary: A monumental work
Comment: Clyde W. Ford helps us to connect to African mythology on so many levels. It is encouraging and illuminating to finally see African mythology treated in the manner that it deserves: as vital as those of any other culture. He demonstrates the importance of myth for centering our lives and providing focus for living. His discussion of the meaning and role of myth in the preface is worth the price of the book alone.
Rating: 4
Summary: Finally, a context for African American spirituality!
Comment: The last paragraph of the book is in my day timer as a reminder of who I am, where I came from and why and how I will always be. Ford's view of the African American story as an epic journey is liberating. He contrasts the intimacy between African diety and the common person with the separation between the western God or Goddess and their subjects. As someone who is struggling to understand the deepening division of black and white in US culture, I find this book very helpful in clarifying our root cultural differences. This also is a wonderful book to give a young person who is away from home or struggling with the questions of identity. As someone who has worked with children in multiracial families (particularly adopted children) who are struggling with a sense of place, I wish I'd had this book a long time ago.
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Title: The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some, L. M. Some ISBN: 087477991X Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Jung and the Jungians on Myth (Theorists of Myth) by Steven F. Walker ISBN: 0415936314 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Myth (The New Critical Idiom) by Laurence Coupe ISBN: 0415134943 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker As Storyteller by Harold Scheub ISBN: 0195124561 Publisher: Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Saga: Best New Writings on Mythology (Saga, Vol 2) by Jonathan Young ISBN: 1883991331 Publisher: White Cloud Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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