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Virtues and Values: The African and African American Experience
Currents in Theology and Mission, Oct, 2005 by Peter Mageto
Virtues and Values: The African and African American Experience. By Peter J. Paris (Fortress, $6). P. provides a resource to those interested in African and African American virtues and values as they center on God, community, family, and person. These virtues and values are upheld through different festivals, rituals, and ceremonial rites to attain a corrective social shared responsibility.
Virtues that P. analyzes in the book include beneficence, forbearance, practical wisdom, improvisation, forgiveness, and justice. He provides the examples of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. as individuals who exhibited these virtues and values in their lives. P. helps the reader to understand that African and African American virtues and values are teleological, as they preserve and promote the individual and the community. P. writes with a simplistic clarity so that a novice in the subject can easily move through the text. The book may serve well the clergy and the laity interested in understanding African and African American virtues and values in an introductory level. However, it is important to remember that Mandela and King were confined by space and time and that numerous ethnic groups in Africa celebrate their virtues and values differently. At the same time, with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and the crisis in Sudan today, one wonders whether the virtues and values that P. provides are compatible with contemporary African and African American experiences. Peter Mageto, University of Evansville
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