"OMUMU" - The Igbo Life-value: A Challenge to Human Life Issue Today

In 1998 a group of scholars with Catholic, Anglican and Jewish background gathered at a symposium to review Humanae vitae 30 years after its publication. On the 40-year anniversary of Humanae vitae in 2008, the issues raised in that controversial encyclical letter still border and affect humans especially in the light of modern scientific and biotechnological development. This book is a contribution to that debate in the sense of being unbiased and from an African perspective meant to balance the «sense and insensibilities» from both polarities of the world. It is an X-ray through a hermeneutical-anthropological «Weltanschauung» (worldview) of the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria.

Autorentext

The Author: Peter Chidi Okuma is a priest of the Catholic diocese of Orlu (Nigeria). He holds a High Diploma in freelance and feature writing in Journalism from the London School of Journalism (UK) with distinction. He holds a Master's Degree in Religious Studies and a Master's Study Certificate in Education and Psychology from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) where he equally received a certified doctoral training in 2005. He has a doctorate in Social sciences from S. Thomas University Rome (Angelicum).

Inhalt

Contents: The contribution of Igbo life-value towards a better appreciation of human life-value - Human sexuality - Marriage and family in light of familial value.