非殖民化的非洲神圣书信

IF 0.4 4区哲学 0 RELIGION

JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI:10.1163/15700666-12340231

C. Prempeh

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本文的目的是使阿干的神圣认识论不受欧洲基督教的过度影响。自20世纪20年代以来，文化人类学家一直认为，阿干人对Twereduampon Kwame的概念是因为上帝要么在周六向阿干人展示自己，要么在那一天阿干人崇拜上帝。通过深入访谈和结合现存文献分析的二次数据研究方法，我对这一假设提出了质疑，认为上帝的名字Twereduampon Kwame是基于人名的意义。这是因为这个名字与死亡之谜以及上帝作为死亡造成的混乱的答案来源的地位交织在一起。与阿干宗教中启示或遵守安息日的假设相反，Twereduampon Kwame这个名字指向上帝对最伟大草药医生的称呼。

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Decolonising African Divine Episteme

The goal of this paper is to decolonise Akan divine episteme from undue Euro-Christian influence. Since the 1920s, cultural anthropologists have argued that the Akan concept of Twereduampon Kwame is because God either revealed himself to the Akan on a Saturday or the Akan worshipped God on that day. Employing in-depth interviews and a secondary data research approach that incorporates analysis of extant literature, I challenge this assumption by arguing that the name of God as Twereduampon Kwame is based on the significance of day names. This is because the name intermeshes with the enigma of death and God’s positionality as the source of the answer to the disruption caused by death. Contrary to the assumption of revelation or Sabbath observance in the Akan religion, the name Twereduampon Kwame points to God’s appellation as the greatest herbalist.

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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.