Funeral Rites Reformation for Any African Ethnic Community Based on the Proposed New Funeral Practices for the Agikuyu /

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Author / Creator:Mbugua, Johnson Nganga.
Imprint:Eugene : Resource Publications, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource (312 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13540565
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Other authors / contributors:Getui, Mary N.
ISBN:1498290914
9781498290913
9781498290920
9781498290906
1498290906
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:This book has been written on the premise that the mode of coping with death of virtually all African ethnic communities has taken proportions and turns that are neither cultural, scriptural, nor necessary. Current rites are complicated, time-consuming, expensive, and are leaving most families and their neighbors impoverished. They have been extremely commercialized and a large number of Africans do not have resources to bury their dead the ""modern"" way. Were the Agikuyu (read: Africans) to curb numerous funeral demands which they deem necessary and ""customary, "" when in actual fact they ar
Other form:Print version: Mbugua, Johnson Nganga. Funeral rites reformation for any African ethnic community based on the proposed new funeral practices for the Agikuyu. Eugene, Origan : Resource Publications, [2016] 9781498290906