Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-94-024-2067-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 714 Seiten, Buch mit Online-Zugang, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

This comprehensive encyclopedia presents African thinkers, concepts and traditions, with a focus on African religious and philosophical practices. It offers a dependable and significant synthesis of African studies that encompasses major trends in the field since the early 1980s. The encyclopedia considers all religious and philosophical systems of Africa, both indigenous and non-indigenous. It also recognizes the determining role of the Diaspora in understanding African traditions and African identity. The work has benefited immensely from commitments in advanced interdisciplinary exchanges in a number of domains, including comparative research in epistemology and from surveys in postcolonial studies and social sciences, along with religious and philosophical compendia. In brief, this is an encyclopedia made from the viewpoint of African studies and in dialogue with scientific traditions

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mudimbe, V. Y.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen Indigene Religionen Afrikas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents: African Anthropology.- African Philosophy (1).- African Philosophy (2).- Bemba History, Religious Systems and Rituals.- Cannibalism.- Child.- Difference and Literature.- Dreams.- Egypt, Religion and Theology.- Ethiopia, Christianity & Philosophy.- Evangelization of Western Africa.- France, Image of in African Literature.- Homosexuality.- Hinduism: An Introduction.- Islamism.- Kongo.- Kuba.- Limba.- Marxism.- Negritude Women.- Oral Traditions.- Présence Africaine.- Reincarnation.- Surrealism and Africa.- Uganda, Literature of.- Women, Conflicts and Symbols.- Zar, A history of.

Über Autor(innen)

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe received his  B. A. in Romance Philology  from Lovanium University (Kinshasa, Congo RDC) in 1966, and his Doctorat en Philosophie et Lettres from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1970. Before arriving at Duke University where he became Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature, he taught at the Universities of Paris-Nanterre, Congo (RDC), Haverford College, Stanford, and lectured at many other universities throughout Africa, Europe and North America, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales in Paris. He is known worldwide for two path-breaking and greatly influential books: The Invention of Africa. Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (1988) and The Idea of Africa (1994).V.Y. Mudimbe has received several honorary degrees in recognition of his achievements as a scholar. In 1997, he became Doctor Honoris Causa at Université Paris VII Diderot; in 2006, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and in 2012, at Laval University, Quebec. He is a Membre Honoraire Correspondant de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre- Mer (Belgium); a Member of the American Society of Philosophy in French (Société américaine de philosophie de langue française); as well as of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. He served as Chairman of the Board of African Philosophy, and from 2000 to 2013, as the Chairman of the International African Institute (SOAS, University of London). Kasereka Kavwahirehi is a professor of Francophone literatures at the University of Ottawa. He received a B.A. in philosophy from the Faculté de Philosophie Saint-Pierre Canisius in Congo in 1994, a M.A. in Philosophie et lettres from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1998, and a PhD. in French studies from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) in 2003. He was a Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Bayreuth (2010-2011) as well as of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2018-2019). He is a specialist in Francophone literatures  with particular interests in literatures and social discourse, religion and politics in Africa, and African philosophy.