TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wariboko,Nimi
TI  - Ethics and time: ethos of temporal orientation in politics and religion of the Niger Delta 
SN  - 9780739150306
AV  - BJ1275 
U1  - 241 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Social ethics
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Niger River Delta
KW  - Time
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Kalabari (African people)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Temps
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Niger, Delta du
KW  - Kalabari (Peuple d'Afrique)
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168) and index; Creating time gaps -- Chiefs : subjects to freedom -- Imagination : source of self and religion -- Apocalypticism : the struggle for a relevant future -- Temporal orientation and philosophy of history -- The virtue of time -- Kairos and economic development
N2  - Ethics and Time investigates how temporal orientation influence social-ethics. Re-conceptualizing temporal orientation as the production of new temporalities that allow humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles that impede their flourishing, it shows how a social group's orientation to time frames, informs, and drives its politics and religion. It uses an African culture as a practical case study to concretely illustrate the form and dynamics of the interconnections
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