Are Africans Incurably Religious?

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" Are Africans Incurably Religious? "
Frans Wijsen

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067092
Doc. No	:	LA110721
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341457‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Frans Wijsen
Title & Author	:	Are Africans Incurably Religious? [Article]\ Frans Wijsen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	46/4
Page No	:	370–397
Abstract	:	This article analyses the debate on the invention of African Religion and the notion that Africans are incurably religious. It uses critical discourse analysis as a form of ideology critique to demonstrate how advocates and opponents of the ‘invention of African Religion’ theory construct their own social realities. Drawing on a conversation between members of the African Association for the Study of Religions the article concludes that the dilemma between the myth and reality of African Religion is false. The fact that African religion was invented does not signify that it does not exist.
Descriptor	:	African religion
Descriptor	:	critical discourse analysis
Descriptor	:	ideology critique
Descriptor	:	invention of tradition
Descriptor	:	social constructivism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341457‬