Summary of Katrina Hazzard-Donald's Mojo Workin'

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 The dual notions of Christianizing and civilizing African savages complemented each other, and many of the early scholars who entered Africa were racist and believed that African religion was founded solely on ignorance and fear.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669385349

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Insights on Katrina Hazzard-Donald's Mojo Workin'

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The dual notions of Christianizing and civilizing African savages complemented each other, and many of the early scholars who entered Africa were racist and believed that African religion was founded solely on ignorance and fear.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The African slave trade to the New World would not only be an enterprise that lasted nearly four centuries, but it would also deposit large populations of Africans in North America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America.

#2

The traditional life in West Africa was ordered around a rigid status hierarchy based on age or seniority, exceptional personal accomplishments, and possession of needed skills. Life in West Africa was governed by a complex system of multilayered symbols that linked members to the society and formed the basis of ethnic consciousness.

#3

The traditional African religious world is populated by a variety of manipulable spiritual forces and beings capable of beneficial as well as malevolent actions that can be directed at any earthly entity.

#4

The spirit world of the various African traditional religions is multilayered and varied. Everything in nature, including plants, animals, and inanimate objects, is believed to have a spirit or soul or governing principle and a function in addition to a certain level of spiritual power.

#5

The spirits of the departed or the ancestors are universally honored among West and Central West African religious traditionalists. They are remembered, honored, and spoken of so that the familial continuity is strengthened.

#6

Ancestor reverence is the process of honoring your ancestors, seizing their