A Critique of Anthropological and Religious Normalization of Witchcraft in Africa
نام نخستين پديدآور
David T. Ngong
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Recent anthropological and religious, especially Christian, discourses on African witchcraft normalize the witchcraft imagination on the continent by failing to show how damaging the imagination has been to Africa's move toward modernization. While anthropologists normalize it by studying the phenomenon ahistorically and by rationalizing and reinterpreting it, scholars and preachers of African Christianity see it as the context necessary for the growth of Christianity on the continent. However, this normalization of the witchcraft imagination stifles the African imagination because it does not encourage Africans to think in scientific ways that may be more helpful in the transformation of the continent in our modern world. This article is an attempt to liberate the African imagination by critiquing the witchcraft imagination from a rational and theological perspective. It also proposes policies that need to be taken in order to overcome this ruinous imagination and facilitate Africa's dignified participation in the modern world.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2012
توصيف ظاهري
144-181
عنوان
African and Asian Studies
شماره جلد
11/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1569-2108
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اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
anthropology
اصطلاح موضوعی
Asian Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
imagination
اصطلاح موضوعی
Middle East and Islamic Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
modernity
اصطلاح موضوعی
rationality
اصطلاح موضوعی
religion/religious studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
witchcraft
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