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Toward an Understanding of a Misconceived Igbo Deity 了解被误解的伊格博神灵
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340310
Tobias Chibuike Onah, Kingsley Ikechukwu Uwaegbute, Virginus Uchenna Eze
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Secularity and Muslim-Christian Relations in Uganda 乌干达的政教分离与穆斯林-基督教关系
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340319
Dorothea Schulz
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Multiple Secularities in Africa – An Introduction 非洲的多重世俗性--导言
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340314
Marian Burchardt, Magnus Echtler, Katharina Wilkens
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‘The True and Scientific Religion’ 真正的科学宗教
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340317
Judith Bachmann
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On the Religious and the Secular in Nineteenth-Century Buganda 论十九世纪布干达的宗教与世俗
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340318
Tyler Zoanni
{"title":"On the Religious and the Secular in Nineteenth-Century Buganda","authors":"Tyler Zoanni","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340318","url":null,"abstract":"The case of nineteenth-century Buganda opens up a number of assumptions within scholarship about religion, secularity, and politics in African history. Although much scholarship focuses on European colonizers introduced alien categories such as religion and imposed distinctions between religion and politics, this paper foregrounds a different set of historical transformations in what is now Uganda – transformations that ultimately increased rather than diminished connections between the exercise of political power and markedly religious convictions. Along the way, it locates some of the most important pieces of this story in ‘the precolonial’. This allows the paper to trace the emergence of the category of religion, as well as analyze the sense in which it is meaningful to think of precolonial Buganda as secular at a particular moment. In so doing, the paper puts an African story in dialogue with wider conversations on the secular.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":"2013 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Secular Framings 世俗框架
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340292
Benedikt Pontzen
{"title":"Secular Framings","authors":"Benedikt Pontzen","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340292","url":null,"abstract":"The secular Ghanaian state frames and governs ‘African Traditional Religion’ (‘<jats:sc>ATR</jats:sc>’) in three main ways. As culture and heritage, aspects of ‘<jats:sc>ATR</jats:sc>’ are integrated into public performances and national narratives, displaying the African identity of the Ghanaian nation. As providers of traditional forms of therapy, traditional shrines are administered as health facilities and supervised by the Ministry of Health. As religion, ‘<jats:sc>ATR</jats:sc>’ is counted as one of the country’s religions. This article discusses these framings and their social dynamics drawing on framing theories and secularity studies. Devising secular framings and eclectically appropriating traditional religious presences, the Ghanaian state seeks to govern ‘<jats:sc>ATR</jats:sc>’ and integrate it into its nation-building politics. Traditional religious actors have reappropriated these framings, carving out spaces of their own. The relations between ‘<jats:sc>ATR</jats:sc>’ and the Ghanaian state are subject to constant negotiations that impact both.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Combating COVID-19 and ‘Possessing the Nations’: Insights from Ghana’s Megachurches 打击 COVID-19 和 "占有国家"：加纳大型教会的启示
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340298
Allison Norton, Felicity Apaah
{"title":"Combating COVID-19 and ‘Possessing the Nations’: Insights from Ghana’s Megachurches","authors":"Allison Norton, Felicity Apaah","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340298","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article employs social listening techniques to capture the themes and public response to popular coronavirus-related social media posts made by leaders via their public Facebook pages at two of Ghana’s largest and fastest-growing churches: The Church of Pentecost (CoP) and the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">UD-OLGC</span>). We examine how religious leaders employed social media in response to the pandemic, and how these religious groups reinforced their relevance and reinvented themselves in the face of <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">COVID</span>-19. Additionally, we explore the major beliefs, perceptions, and values that the church’s social media users portrayed in response to the church’s pandemic postings, using social listening techniques and sentiment analysis. These results show how, while adapting to the realities demanded by the pandemic, the social media presence of two of Ghana’s largest churches served as a site for the contestation and negotiation of the religious authority of the leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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‘Something Like a Nuclear Weapon’: African Charismatic Prophetic Revelations and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic 类似核武器的东西"：非洲灵恩派先知对 Covid-19 大流行病的启示和回应
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340299
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
{"title":"‘Something Like a Nuclear Weapon’: African Charismatic Prophetic Revelations and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340299","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the role of mega size African Pentecostal/charismatic prophets and charismatic figures in the public response to Covid-19. There were responses to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019, and in Africa, a lot of these were religious. This article examines the intersection between religion and the Covid-19 pandemic, in the context contemporary African charismatic-prophetism. The data is sought mainly from oral and media sources of the various charismatic figures at the center of the discussion. The same religious interpretations that inform the understanding of events in society and human life in Africa were extended to the interpretation, diagnosis, and response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The charismatic power and influence of Pentecostal/charismatic church leaders, such as Emmanuel Makandiwa of Zimbabwe, was evident through the public role that the prophets played as these churches articulated their responses to the pandemic as a public health issue with spiritual implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141188043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Religion, Science, and Pentecostalism: RCCG and the COVID-19 Pandemic 宗教、科学与五旬节派：RCCG 与 COVID-19 流行病
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340297
Dodeye Williams, Abimbola Adelakun, Nike Ogunnowo
{"title":"Religion, Science, and Pentecostalism: RCCG and the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Dodeye Williams, Abimbola Adelakun, Nike Ogunnowo","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340297","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">COVID</span>-19 pandemic flustered dimensions of public and private life in varied ways. In Nigeria, as in several parts of the world, faith-based groups variously tried to make sense of the event as they also try to cope with government ‘lockdown’ measures introduced to contain and limit the spread of the virus. This study focuses on the Redeemed Christian Church of God (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">RCCG</span>), one of the largest megachurches within global religious landscapes. The study compares the narratives birthed within the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">RCCG</span> to what obtained among other Pentecostal denominational leaders to make sense of the pandemic as everyone confronted a befuddling global event. Both science and religion became instruments of discerning the meaning of the pandemic, sometimes as competing and sometimes reconciled.</p>","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Teaching and Preaching 教学与传道
IF 0.4 4区 哲学
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340301
Temesgen T. Beyan
{"title":"Teaching and Preaching","authors":"Temesgen T. Beyan","doi":"10.1163/15700666-12340301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340301","url":null,"abstract":"During European colonial times in Africa and elsewhere, missionary education was an integral part of the colonial instruments for political domination, economic exploitation, and cultural assimilation. This paper aims to investigate the process of making colonial subjects through missionary education that was mainly provided by Catholic and Evangelical mission schools during the Italian colonial period in Eritrea. The paper argues that the Catholic and Evangelical mission schools distinctively worked to achieve their separate objectives that can be explained as employment versus salvation, teaching versus preaching, flag versus Bible, and hands versus soul, respectively. While the Catholic mission school focused on training the hand in order to supply labour, the Evangelical mission school stressed harvesting the soul to cultivate a docile labour force. Despite their differences, the works of the Catholic and Evangelical mission schools placed much emphasis on and exerted much effort to producing a class of colonial subjects that could serve as brokers of power.","PeriodicalId":45604,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141153207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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