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Decolonizing African Religion - A Short History of African Religions in Western Scholarship (Paperback)
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Decolonizing African Religion - A Short History of African Religions in Western Scholarship (Paperback)
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Loot Price R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
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For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced
by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African
"religions" per se, but what was worse, African scholars began not
to study indigenous African spirituality on its own terms but
through European eyes and intellectual categories. Okot p'Bitek,
who is best known for Song of Lawino, was one of the first African
scholars to call attention to this situation and argue African
scholars need not "Hellenize" African spiritual practices and ideas
and that what we have come to think as "African religions" are
European versions in African disguise. This publication, along with
a new introduction by Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu,
reintroduces a classic work to a new generation, especially for
those with an interest in African spiritual cultures and in need of
"decolonizing" them so that they be studied, appreciated, and
engaged on their own cultural and historic terms.
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