पश्चिमी विद्वत्ता में अफ़्रीकी धर्म

परिचय

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.

संबंध

जिनकी आलोचना की

• बांटू फ़िलॉसफ़ी1945 · प्लासिड तेंपेल्स
• अफ़्रीकी धर्म और दर्शन1969 · जॉन एस. म्बिटी

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