Africism. a Response To the Onomastic Plight of African Religion

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Africism. a Response To the Onomastic Plight of African Religion "
Aloysius M. Lugira

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083207
Doc. No	:	LA126836
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157430101X00035‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Aloysius M. Lugira
Title & Author	:	Africism. a Response To the Onomastic Plight of African Religion [Article]\ Aloysius M. Lugira
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2001
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/1-2
Page No	:	42–60
Abstract	:	For many centuries the autochthonal religion of African peoples have been subjected to a variety of misnomers. This has resulted in the fact of the marginalization of the religions ofAfricans. This paper aims at sensitizing the reader about the issue in order to help check the perpetuation of such marginalization of the religion ofAfrica. In our time, notable personalities and institutions interested in world religions and interreligious dialogue, have expressed the need of an appropriately consolidated and objective designation for the autochthonal religion of Africa. This paper submits that an objectively and creatively established name can be arrived at by a geo-ontological approach. As we turn a new leaf in a new millennium, Africism is hereby submitted as the appropriately consolidated and objective name of the essence and manifestations of the autochthonal religion of Africa. For many centuries the autochthonal religion of African peoples have been subjected to a variety of misnomers. This has resulted in the fact of the marginalization of the religions ofAfricans. This paper aims at sensitizing the reader about the issue in order to help check the perpetuation of such marginalization of the religion ofAfrica. In our time, notable personalities and institutions interested in world religions and interreligious dialogue, have expressed the need of an appropriately consolidated and objective designation for the autochthonal religion of Africa. This paper submits that an objectively and creatively established name can be arrived at by a geo-ontological approach. As we turn a new leaf in a new millennium, Africism is hereby submitted as the appropriately consolidated and objective name of the essence and manifestations of the autochthonal religion of Africa.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157430101X00035‬