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2006 | 4 - Islam we współczesnej Afryce | 123-138

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Islam wobec ludów refugialnych W Afryce Zachodniej

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Islam Towards the Refugee People of the West Africa

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The process of globalization and its outcome, has an impact on indigenous culture in different aspects. One of this is, close contacts with the world wide great religions of Christianity and Islam. Christianity which sometimes functions within the system of inculturation tried to adapt more native elements of culture for interpretation of religion as well as its doctrine; on the contrary the concept of Islam is the opposite. Islam in Africa appears to be the indigenous religion, easy to understand its contents and adapt it. The case of adaptation of Islam is very high. This religion has a great distractive influence on the indigenous African culture and tradition. In my opinion, cultivation of cultural model of refugee is the question of conscious choice and not sudden circumstances. I think, mostly the refugee community tried to protect their culture and mainly escape from the invasion Islam; on the other hand, concerning the work of missionaries in relation to refugees, previously it was only limited to contacts with hunters of slave traders. The hypothesis is that, people with strong personality and culture, based on deep roots of history and tradition protected their land from infiltration of Islam for a long time. These people are the refugee people. Islam among the peoples of refugee people has always been thought as the element of alien, difficult to adapt even today, most of them still defend the full infiltration of this religion.

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  • Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

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