西非人的奴隶制实践与宗教精神

IF 0.4 4区哲学 0 RELIGION

JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-11-17 DOI:10.1163/15700666-12340247

K. Lamak

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与基督教、伊斯兰教、犹太教、印度教和佛教等其他世界宗教相比，自非洲人和欧洲人的殖民遭遇以来，西非传统宗教在欧美社会中一直被误解、曲解和歪曲。可悲的是，在欧美的流行文化中，西非宗教的殖民命名和分类仍在继续，如野蛮、万物有灵论和偶像崇拜。本文旨在通过明确的例子证明14世纪的西非传统宗教与其他世界宗教是如何相似的。西非传统宗教与非洲文化和历史一起被更好地理解，而不是作为一个独立的主题。与欧洲传教士声称他们是向西非人传授至高无上的上帝的人不同，本文解释了殖民前时期的西非人如何对至高无上的神和其他信仰有建设性的认识。

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The Preslavery Praxis and Ethos of the Religion of West African People

Compared to other world religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, West African Traditional Religion (WATR) has been misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misrepresented in Euro-American society since the colonial encounter of Africans and Europeans. Sadly, the colonial naming and categorizing of West African religion as savage, animism, and idol worship continues in the popular culture of Euro-America. This paper aims to demonstrate with clear examples how West African Traditional Religion of the 1400s is similar to any other world religion. West African Traditional Religion is better understood alongside African culture and history than as an independent subject. Disagreeing with European missionaries’ claim that they were the ones who taught West Africans about the supreme God, this paper explains how West Africans in precolonial periods had constructive knowledge of supreme deities and other beliefs.

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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.