非洲宗教与哲学

简介

John S. Mbiti, a Kenyan Anglican theologian teaching at Makerere University in Uganda, published the book in 1969. Written against the missionary view of African religions as superstition, it surveys beliefs and practices from across sub-Saharan Africa as a coherent whole: belief in one God, intermediaries such as spirits and the “living dead”, rites of passage from birth to death, and an ethics bound to community. Its opening sentence, “Africans are notoriously religious”, and its thesis about time, drawn from the verb tenses of Kikamba and Gikuyu, became widely known. Okot p’Bitek accused Mbiti of giving African gods the attributes of the Christian God, Kwame Gyekye and others rejected the thesis on time, and Henry Odera Oruka classed the book as ethnophilosophy.

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被承接于

• 非洲传统思想中的人与共同体1984 · 伊凡约·门基蒂

被批评于

• 西方学术中的非洲宗教1970 · 奥考特·庇代克