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In many African communities, indigenous traditional Knowledge is essential in predicting weather extremes and in helping communities to prepare for and address the adverse impacts of natural calamities like drought and floods. Indigenous religious perspectives are arguably an integral aspect that can inform climate-resilient agricultural technique and policies if a holistic approach to climate change for food security, co-existence and co-prosperity must be taken seriously. African women are custodians of indigenous religious knowledge. In pre-colonial Africa, women were the major authorities in herbal remedies within their own homes and at the community level, where they focused on disease prevention and cure. In African communities, women ritually design and implementing traditional health systems using traditional medicines and ancestral spiritual procession. Through indigenous religious knowledge, African women herbalists helped communities to interpret climate change using religious community’s native ethical concepts. They enabled community members to recognize Mother Earth as a living being to whom human beings have an indivisible, interdependent, complementary, spiritual relationship and divine responsibility towards life sustainability. This paper uses an ecofeminism approach to argue that there is need to widely recognize and promote African women’s indigenous religious knowledge on climate change for food security in African’s co-existence and co-prosperity.

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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Ecofeminism and African Women’s Indigenous Religious Knowledge to Climate
3. Indigenous Religious Perspectives, Co-Existence and Co-prosperity
4. Conclusion
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• Dorcas Chebet Juma [ Pwani University, Kilifi, Keyna ] Corresponding Author

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간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  선문효정학술연구회 학술대회 프로시딩

• 간기

  반년간

• 수록기간

  2023~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 238 DDC 289