Research Catalog

Title

European traditions in the study of religion in Africa / edited by Frieder Ludwig and Afe Adogame ; in cooperation with Ulrich Berner and Christoph Bochinger.

Publication

Wiesbaden [Germany] : Harrassowitz, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Ludwig, Frieder, 1961-
• Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964-
• Berner, Ulrich.
• Bochinger, Christoph, 1959-
• African Association for the Study of Religions.

Description

vii, 404 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Series of the African Association for the Study of Religions

Subjects

• Africa > Religion > Study and teaching > Congresses
• Europeans > Attitudes > Congresses
• Africa > Religion > Public opinion > Congresses
• Public opinion > Europe > Congresses
• Eurocentrism > Congresses

Note

• Outgrowth of an international interdisciplinary conference held 4-7 Oct. 2001 at Wissenschaftszentrum der Universität Bayreuth, Schloss Thurnau, Germany.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Historiography and European perceptions of African religious history / Frieder Ludwig & Afe Adogame -- "They became slaves of their definitions" : Okot p'Bitek (1931-1982) and the European traditions in the study of African religions / Henk J. van Rinsum -- Sources in mission archives / Adam Jones -- European perceptions of Islam in Africa / Nehemia Levtzion -- German Koran translations and their reception in North Africa / Mahmud Haggag -- From distance to difference : modern European travel accounts on religion and healing in Africa / Robert Debusmann & Frieder Ludwig -- Dutch merchants, missionaries, & academics on African religions, 1594-2000 : their earliest contributions / Jan G. Platvoet -- The dialectic of the French Enlightenment for Africans : thinking alterity in Abbé Grégoire, Condorcet, Ch. de Brosses, and Olympe de Gouges / Jean-Godefroy Bidima -- Fetishists and magicians : the description of African religions by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) / Wolbert Smidt -- Wissenschaft, Africa, and the cultural process according to Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) / Werner Ustorf -- Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1844) : his impact on Christian mission in Africa / Musa A.B. Gaiya -- Africa and the origin of the science of religion : Max Müller (1823-1900) and James George Frazer (1854-1941) on African religions / Ulrich Berner -- The sociology of religion and the possibility of African society / Elisio Macamo -- Germanophone orientalism revisited / Roman Loimeier -- "The gods are dying" : Diedrich Westermann (1875-1956) and some aspects of his studies of African religions / Holger Stoecker -- "Friend of Africa" : J.H. Oldham (1874-1969), missions, and British colonial policy in the 1920s / Keith Clements -- A tale of two Germans and the Yoruba of Nigeria : Leo Frobenius (1873-1938) and Ulli Beier (*1922) / Jacob K. Olupona -- "They have laid hold of some essential truths" : Edwin W. Smith (1876-1957), a wise listener to African voices / W. John Young -- Geoffrey Parrinder (*1910) and the study of religion in West Africa / Andrew F. Walls -- Bengt Sundkler (1909-1995) / Christopher Steed -- "A theology of attention" : the CMS tradition at the end of the colonial era in Africa : Max Warren (1904-1977) and John V. Taylor (1914-2001) / Kevin Ward -- John Spencer Trimingham (*1904) on Islam in Africa / Abdulkader Tayob -- From rationality to creativity : ritual activity and religious experience in the work of Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973) and Victor Turner (1920-1983) / Till Förster -- From Africa to Africa : the significance of approaches to the study of African religions at Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities from 1970 to 1998 / James L. Cox -- African Christian studies, 1967-1999 / Adrian Hastings -- Uppsala studies on religions in Africa / David Westerlund -- Africa Research Centre, University of Leuven / René Devisch -- Missionary experience and academic quest : the research situation in Greece / Athanasios N. Papathanasiou -- Institutions of the former GDR / Ulrich van der Heyden -- Writing of past times : an interdisciplinary approach to mission history / Andrea Schultze -- Catching the wind : some remarks on the growing interface of migration studies and studies on African religions / Klaus Hock -- West African religions in European scholarship / Umar Habila Dadem Danfulani -- The use of European traditions in the study of religion in Africa : East African perspectives / Grace Nyatugah Wamue -- The use of European traditions in the study of religion in Africa : West African perspectives / Afe Adogame.

Call Number

Sc E 05-31

ISBN

3447050020 (hard)

OCLC

56933175

Title

European traditions in the study of religion in Africa / edited by Frieder Ludwig and Afe Adogame ; in cooperation with Ulrich Berner and Christoph Bochinger.

Imprint

Wiesbaden [Germany] : Harrassowitz, 2004.

Series

Series of the African Association for the Study of Religions

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ludwig, Frieder, 1961-

Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964-

Berner, Ulrich.

Bochinger, Christoph, 1959-

African Association for the Study of Religions.

Research Call Number

Sc E 05-31