الأديان الأفريقية في الدراسات الغربية (African Religions in Western Scholarship)

مقدمة

Okot p’Bitek wrote “African Religions in Western Scholarship” while teaching in Nairobi; it was published by the East African Literature Bureau in Kampala and Nairobi in 1970. The book examines how African religions had been studied – by early anthropologists, by missionaries and by African Christian theologians – and argues that each group used them for its own ends: to prove African primitiveness, to find preparations for the Gospel, or to show that Africans had always worshipped the Christian God. P’Bitek’s main target is the “Hellenisation” of African deities, which John Mbiti, Bolaji Idowu, J. B. Danquah and Placide Tempels described with the Greek attributes of omnipotence, omniscience and eternity; against this he draws on his own fieldwork among the Acholi and Lango. He calls for the study of African religions to be separated from Christian theology and placed in the social sciences. The book became a classic of the critique of ethnophilosophy.

الصلات

ينتقد

• الفلسفة البانتوية (Bantu Philosophy)1945 · بلاسيد تامبلز
• الأديان الأفريقية والفلسفة (African Religions and Philosophy)1969 · جون مبيتي

مزيد من أعمال أوكوت بيتيك

• 1966أنشودة لاوينو (Wer pa Lawino)