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Title:'Is Africa incurably religious?' II: a response to Jan Platvoet & Henk van Rinsum
Author:Olabimtan, KehindeISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context
Volume:32
Issue:4
Pages:322-339
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:images
African religions
External link:https://doi.org/10.1163/157254303X00262
Abstract:In their attempt to explore the alleged religiosity of Africans as part of a 'critical, reflexive exercise in the methodology of the Western study of the religions of Africa' (Exchange, vol. 32, no. 2, 2003), J. Platvoet en H. van Rinsum bring to the fore two problems besetting the study of the religions of Africa. The first concerns the problem of whether we can speak of the many indigenous cults of Africa in the singular sense of a common tradition or whether we must recognize them as mutually exclusive phenomena. The second is the problem of whether the Western scientific tool of enquiry can ultimately grapple with an experience like religion. The present response attempts to uncover the weaknesses of the argument presented by Platvoet and Van Rinsum and to show how they, inadvertently, fall prey to these perennial problems in their use of sources. Response by Jan G. Platvoet and Henk van Rinsum in: Exchange, vol. 37, no. 2 (2008), p. 156-173. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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