The Transformation of the Religious thought of the Pokot of Northwestern Kenya, c.1800–1900

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Karani Shiyuka
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Historical studies have indicated that African religions, in the pre-colonial period, were dynamic and multilayered with long histories of contradictions, contestations, and synthesis. Using the Pokot of north-western Kenya as a case in point, this contribution attempts to demonstrate the fluidity that was inherent in African religions. The Pokot originally were an agro-pastoral group inhabiting the Cherang’any and the Sekerr ranges. During the first half of the nineteenth century, a section of them descended the hills to pursue pastoralism. In their pastoral excursions, they came into contact with Plain Nilotes, especially the Karimojong. What followed was cross-cultural bartering of religious artefacts, both ideological and material, in which process the Pokot adopted selected religious aspects from the Karimojong and fused them with their previous beliefs to formulate syncretism. This contribution not only highlights the religious concepts that were fused but, also, attempts to explain the process of fusion itself.
1800–1900年肯尼亚西北部波科特人宗教思想的转变
历史研究表明,前殖民时期的非洲宗教是动态的、多层次的,有着长期的矛盾、争论和综合历史。以肯尼亚西北部的波科特为例,这一贡献试图展示非洲宗教固有的流动性。波科特人最初是一个农牧民群体,居住在Cherang'any和Sekerr山脉。在19世纪上半叶,他们中的一部分人下山追求畜牧业。在他们的田园之旅中,他们接触到了平原尼罗人,尤其是卡里莫宗人。随后是宗教文物的跨文化易货,包括意识形态和材料,在这个过程中,波科特人采用了卡里莫宗的一些宗教方面,并将它们与他们以前的信仰融合在一起,形成了融合主义。这一贡献不仅突出了融合的宗教概念,而且试图解释融合本身的过程。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. His successor, David Maxwell, acted as Executive Editor until the end of 2005. The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally publishes religious texts in their original African language.
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