On the Rationality of the Devout Opposition
| Autor: | Robert W. Wyllie |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Religion in Africa. 11:81-92 |
| ISSN: | 1570-0666 0022-4200 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/157006680x00052 |
| Popis: | Horton's argument is best understood in the context of the intellectualist approach to religion which he has developed in a number of highly stimulating articles.2 This approach, which owes its inspiration to such classical anthropologists as Tylor and Frazer, focusses upon belief rather than ritual practice, and is particularly concerned with the conscious religious thought-the intellectual efforts-of religious leaders and systematizers in traditional societies. In a review essay3 dealing with Peel's Aladura: a religious movement among the Yoruba," Horton writes approvingly of the intellectualist approach adopted in that study, but feels that Peel's Weberian perspective led him to underestimate the part played by traditional Yoruba religion in the local adoption of Christianity.5 Horton suggests that Yoruba religion may be viewed as a theoretical system for explaining, controlling and predicting events in the space-time world; when it is so viewed, one is able to see clearly its potential for monolatric development, a process which is necessary if missionaries are to register significant results in their work of conversion. Although Horton acknowledges the importance of socialstructural factors associated with conversion to Christianity in |
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