Reimagining Ghana’s cities: Perspectives from the Bible and African Indigenous Sacred Texts
Africa has some of the world’s fastest-growing cities. While urbanisation could be a sign of economic growth, the expansion of these cities is often done at the expense of social and environmental concerns. This article uses the Sacred Texts Approach of African Biblical Hermeneutics in studying Psal...
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| description | Africa has some of the world’s fastest-growing cities. While urbanisation could be a sign of economic growth, the expansion of these cities is often done at the expense of social and environmental concerns. This article uses the Sacred Texts Approach of African Biblical Hermeneutics in studying Psalm 46. It argues that the two-fold threats to the City of God, namely the cosmic and the human, are the same threats to the cities in Ghana.
Contribution: It demonstrates how the parallel reading of Psalm 46 and the Adinkra Fihankra contributes to the re-imagination of the city as a common household, a space of cosmic and social harmony in Africa. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-238d6faad7bd4dda8952913859f39ebf2025-02-11T13:30:15ZengAOSISTheologia Viatorum0378-41422664-29802025-01-01491e1e910.4102/tv.v49i1.232112Reimagining Ghana’s cities: Perspectives from the Bible and African Indigenous Sacred TextsMichael K. Mensah0Department for the Study of Religions, College of Humanities, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; and Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies, School of Humanities, University of South Africa, PretoriaAfrica has some of the world’s fastest-growing cities. While urbanisation could be a sign of economic growth, the expansion of these cities is often done at the expense of social and environmental concerns. This article uses the Sacred Texts Approach of African Biblical Hermeneutics in studying Psalm 46. It argues that the two-fold threats to the City of God, namely the cosmic and the human, are the same threats to the cities in Ghana. Contribution: It demonstrates how the parallel reading of Psalm 46 and the Adinkra Fihankra contributes to the re-imagination of the city as a common household, a space of cosmic and social harmony in Africa.https://theologiaviatorum.org/index.php/tv/article/view/232psalm 46sacred textsadinkraafrican biblical hermeneuticscityghanafihankrahousehold |
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