'Who/What Neglected the Monotheism?': A Panentheistic Rejoinder to Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe on African Traditional Religion
| Autor: | Emmanuel Ofuasia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Philosophia Africana. 21:78-99 |
| ISSN: | 1944-7914 1539-8250 |
| DOI: | 10.5325/philafri.21.2.0078 |
| Popis: | Neglected monotheism is how Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe designate the common denominator among the various religious cultures found across sub-Saharan Africa. This is a product of their engagement with such traditional African religious themes as God’s nature, God’s will, life beyond death, and the duration of existence beyond or without a body consequent on death. This article uses traditional Yoruba theology and its ritual archive, the Ifa corpus, to argue that Metz and Molefe’s monotheistic proposal is a hasty generalization. In fact, on close inspection, the Ifa corpus turns out that traditional Yoruba theology is grounded in panentheism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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