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What makes you think theology is a subject 是什么让你认为神学是一门学科

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N1A14

Trevor L. Williams

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Indigenous Knowledge Systems Discourse and Inclusionality: An Afro-Centric Quest for Recognition in a Globalised World 本土知识系统、话语和包容性:在全球化世界中以非洲为中心寻求认可

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N1A9

Munyaradzi Felix Murove

{"title":"Indigenous Knowledge Systems Discourse and Inclusionality: An Afro-Centric Quest for Recognition in a Globalised World","authors":"Munyaradzi Felix Murove","doi":"10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N1A9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N1A9","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of this essay is to argue that in a multicultural and globalised world, the indigenisation of knowledge production has to be pursued in a way that demonstrates an element of inclusivity. To achieve this goal this article’s structure has three foci. Firstly , it is argued that the indigenisation of knowledge must be pursued under the presumption of a recognition that all knowledge is cultural or context specific to some degree. As such, the multicultural nature and plurality of knowledge systems formations should be acknowledged, as well as the fact that all knowledge production includes an aspect of the indigenisation of knowledge. Secondly , against this broader background, the argument for the indigenisation of knowledge in Africa goes hand-in-hand with the promotion of the intellectualisation of knowledge that is often regarded by Western scholarship as ‘primitive’, and thus redundant, in the face of modernity. This, however, is not only a universal for the production of all knowledge(s), but also foundational to all knowledge development, and should be recognised as such. Finally , given the plurality of knowledge formations, and the African celebration and development of its own knowledge formations, the quest for the indigenisation and intellectualisation of knowledge in African context, should be seen as a quest for the inclusionary appreciation of a multiplicity of global knowledges, whereby all knowledge is understood as context specific to some degree, and contributing to both local and general human wellbeing. This latter perspective implies a deliberately ethical stance, to the effect that in a globalised and multicultural world, no knowledge system should be privileged as superior to any other knowledge system, and none, regarded as inferior. Keywords: Indigenisation, knowledge, ethnicity, recognition, Africa, ethics, context, anthropology, recognition, multiculturalism, globalisation, inclusionnality","PeriodicalId":42808,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67489540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Materializing Religion: Essays in Honor of David Chidester 物质化宗教:纪念大卫·奇德斯特的随笔

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N2A0

J. Strijdom, Lee-Shae S. Scharnick-Udemans

引用次数: 1

Can ethics be taught 道德可以教吗?

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N1A11

L. Kaufmann

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Thinking God in a Global Multi-Religious Context: Trends, Challenges and Possibilities 在全球多宗教背景下思考上帝:趋势、挑战和可能性

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N1A4

R. Venter

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引用次数: 1

TV is the devil, the devil is on TV: wild religion and wild media in South Africa 电视是魔鬼，魔鬼在电视上:南非的狂野宗教和狂野媒体

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N2A8

Lee-Shae S. Scharnick-Udemans

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引用次数: 1

Decolonizing the Study of Religions: Muslim Intellectuals and the Enlightenment Project of Religious Studies 非殖民化的宗教研究:穆斯林知识分子与宗教研究的启蒙工程

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N2A1

A. Tayob

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引用次数: 17

Will religion survive? A critical discussion of the divergent answers of two atheists: archaeologist David Lewis-Williams and philosopher of religion J.L. Schellenberg 宗教会继续存在吗?对两位无神论者:考古学家大卫·刘易斯-威廉姆斯和宗教哲学家谢伦伯格的不同答案的批判性讨论

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N2A12

M. Prozesky

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Martin Prozesky and 'Well-being': Retroactive and proactive perspectives on religion and ethics in the social transformation of South Africa 马丁·普罗泽斯基与“幸福”:南非社会转型中宗教与伦理的追溯与前瞻视角

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N1A16

J. Smit, Denzil Chetty

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Race and Materiality in African Religious Contexts 非洲宗教背景下的种族与物质性

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/V31N2A2

Federico Settler

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