Multiple Secularities in Africa – An Introduction

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI:10.1163/15700666-12340314
Marian Burchardt, Magnus Echtler, Katharina Wilkens
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Raising timely and urgent questions about the forms, scope and boundaries of religious authority and practice, this article offers novel ways for the study of secularities and secularisms in contemporary African societies. In recent scholarly debates on secularity, Africa has been marginal. Part of the reason, it was suggested was that African ways of being in, and knowing, the world lay outside the religious-secular divide. We contest such positions. Secularism was clearly part of modernists colonial ideologies that called for the eradication of African beliefs described as backward and irrational. We find that the colonial encounter had a powerful historical impact, essentializing and othering African societies as marked by holistic indigenous cultures rather than differentiated religions. We suggest that the complex interplay of different African and European cultures has simultaneously shaped the social construction and historical development of multiple secularities. We propose that the concept of multiple secularities provides creative avenues to rethink religion, political authority and belonging. We consider secularities as contested arrangements of religious and other spheres whose dynamics include processes of de-differentiation and de-secularization.
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非洲的多重世俗性--导言
这篇文章就宗教权威和实践的形式、范围和界限提出了及时而紧迫的问题,为研究当代非洲社会的世俗性和世俗主义提供了新的途径。在最近关于世俗性的学术讨论中,非洲一直处于边缘地位。有人认为,部分原因在于非洲人存在和认识世界的方式不在宗教与世俗的分界线之内。我们对这种观点提出质疑。世俗主义显然是现代主义殖民意识形态的一部分,这种意识形态要求铲除被称为落后和非理性的非洲信仰。我们发现,殖民主义的遭遇产生了强大的历史影响,将非洲社会本质化和他者化,认为非洲社会的特点是整体性的本土文化而非差异化的宗教。我们认为,非洲和欧洲不同文化之间复杂的相互作用同时塑造了多重世俗性的社会建构和历史发展。我们提出,多重世俗性的概念为重新思考宗教、政治权威和归属感提供了创造性的途径。我们认为世俗性是宗教和其他领域的有争议的安排,其动态包括去差异化和去世俗化的过程。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. His successor, David Maxwell, acted as Executive Editor until the end of 2005. The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally publishes religious texts in their original African language.
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