Diseases and Healthcare: The African Indigenous Religion Practitioners’ Perspective in Ghana
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Issues of diseases and healthcare are very crucial to human life survival. Africans have always sought find holistic impeccable remedies sicknesses that disturb being incurably religious employ perspectives in their healing systems. Ghanaians from time immemorial employed indigenous or traditional worldview system approach sicknesses. This paper explores the African practitioners’ diseases, causes solution. It also looks at systems face Western work is a result discussion scholarly works on approaches vis-a-vis orthodox ardent hope authors readers appreciate how they can be combined with ensure contemporary society. Keywords: Healthcare, Diseases, Healing, Medicine, Indigenous Religion, Traditional Religion
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: E-Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Sciences
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2720-7722']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2023465