Titlebook: Animals and African Ethics; Kai Horsthemke Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 African philosophy.moral anthrop

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Religion and Ethics in Africa, the foundation of all African worldviews, the basis of all philosophical and ethical considerations in Africa. The opposing view deems this to be not (or at least no longer) true: religion may once have been a significant factor in African philosophy and ethics, but secularism now permeates all asp

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African Creation Myths and the Hierarchy of Beings, of creation myths that have been transmitted over many centuries through the living, immediate medium of oral tradition. In this chapter, I focus on those myths that provide an insight into perceptions of animals — that is, their status and value.

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The African Ritual of Animal Slaughter,s a variety of sacrificial rituals performed by traditional medical practitioners (whose ‘job description’ also includes divination, soothsaying and, in the case of those who are also witchdoctors, sorcery and witchcraft or .) to ensure good fortune for individual players and/ or whole teams and to

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and Nonhuman Animals,the ancestral and spirit realms, on the other (Kwenda 1999: 10; Murove 2004; Murove 2009), finds expression in the Lakota phrase . or the Cree concept of . (‘All is related’; ‘We are all related’), both of which refer to the self in relation, the self defined relationally. In Southern Africa, as I e

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From Anthropocentrism towards a Non-Speciesist Africa, of senior chief Sarhili’; Eze 2010: 38) was sitting by a pool of the Gxara River when she had an experience that would change forever her life and the lives of her people, the Gcaleka. She claimed not only that the faces of her ancestors appeared to her in the water but that she also heard their vo

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lives today. But along with the challenges, the authors present their vision of hope, and transformation through academic solidarity - and for the silenced voices to be heard, inside academia and beyond it..This is an open access book..978-3-030-66318-6