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Author Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel

Title Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana : the Role of African Traditional Religion and Culture with special reference to the Berekum Traditional Area
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; PART II; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African peoples in addressing their environmental problems. However, there is enough evidence that neither modern (scientific) nor Indigenous epistemologies and modes of addressing current ecological problems ar ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Religion and politics -- Africa
Religion and politics -- Africa -- Berekum
Religious life & practice.
Conservation of the environment.
Religion & beliefs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Economic history
Economic policy
Religion and politics
SUBJECT Ghana -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054756
Ghana -- Economic policy -- History
Subject Africa
Ghana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443871327
144387132X