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Rethinking Monotheism: Some Comparisons between the Igala Religion and Christianity 对一神教的再思考:伊加拉宗教与基督教的比较
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.11
Pao-Shen Ho
The Igala religion believes in the supreme God (Ọjọ) as well as the ancestral spirits (Ibegwu). This belief system gives rise to the question of whether the Igala religion is monotheistic or polytheistic. Isaiah Negedu has recently argued that the Igala is a peculiar form of monotheism, namely inclusive monotheism. In contrast, this essay compares the Igala understanding of ancestral spirits with the Christian notions of angels and patron saints, and argues that the question of whether the Igala religion is monotheistic or not concerns how we define monotheism and is therefore merely verbal and will not promote our understanding of the Igala religion.
伊加拉宗教信仰至高无上的上帝(Ọjọ)和祖先的灵魂(Ibegwu)。这种信仰体系引发了伊加拉宗教是一神论还是多神论的问题。以赛亚·内格杜最近认为,伊加拉是一种特殊形式的一神论,即包容性一神论。相比之下,本文将伊加拉对祖先精神的理解与基督教对天使和守护神的概念进行了比较,并认为伊加拉宗教是否是一神教的问题关系到我们如何定义一神教,因此只是口头上的问题,不会促进我们对伊加拉宗教的理解。
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引用次数: 1
Bewaji and Fayemi On God, Omnipotence and Evil 贝瓦吉和法耶米论上帝、全能和邪恶
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.4
A. Agadá
This paper explores the contradiction of positing the existence of a God who is at once omnipotent and not omnipotent in respect of his power that arises in the thought of two African philosophers of religion, John A.I. Bewaji and Ademola Kazeem Fayemi who accept the limitation thesis that projects a limited God and deny the legitimacy of the transcendence view in Yoruba and, by extension, African thought. I demonstrate in this paper that the contradiction arises from the fact that while Bewaji and Fayemi explicitly deny the legitimacy of the transcendence view in Yoruba and, by extension, African thought, they implicitly accept the view and unwittingly and illegitimately attempt to reconcile the conflicting views through the analysis of the notions of God’s creatorship, co-creatorship, and controllership. I conclude by recommending that instead of attempting to reconcile the antinomy of God’s existence in African philosophy of religion, African philosophers should acknowledge the legitimacy of the two conflicting theses constituting the antinomy and, accordingly, sustain logical consistency by strictly thinking within either the framework of limitedness or the framework of transcendence.
本文探讨了在两位非洲宗教哲学家John A.I. Bewaji和Ademola Kazeem Fayemi的思想中出现的假设上帝的存在的矛盾,即上帝是全能的,但在他的权力方面却不是全能的,他们接受限制论点,认为上帝是有限的,并否认约鲁巴以及延伸到非洲思想的超越观点的合法性。我在这篇论文中指出,这种矛盾源于这样一个事实:虽然Bewaji和Fayemi明确否认约鲁巴(Yoruba)以及延伸到非洲思想的超越性观点的合法性,但他们含蓄地接受了这种观点,并无意中、非法地试图通过分析上帝的创造、共同创造和控制权等概念来调和这些相互矛盾的观点。我的结论是,与其试图调和非洲宗教哲学中上帝存在的二律背反,非洲哲学家应该承认构成二律背反的两个相互冲突的论点的合法性,因此,通过严格地在局限性的框架内或超越的框架内进行思考来维持逻辑的一致性。
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引用次数: 6
The Question of the Nature of God from the African Place 从非洲地区看上帝的本质问题
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.8
L. Ogbonnaya
What is the constituent nature of God? Most scholars project the idea that God is an absolute, pure spirit devoid of matter. In this paper, I engage this position from the African philosophical place. First, I contend that the postulation that God is pure spirit stems from an ontological system known as dualism. This system bifurcates reality into spirit and matter and sees spirit as good, and matter as evil. Therefore, scholars who subscribe to this theory of dualism, posit that God, the Supreme Being is the ultimate good that is, and is pure spirit. Secondly, I disagree with this position. Using the African theory of duality, I argue that everything that is has both spirit and matter, and that spirit and matter are good. Thus, God as an existent reality consists of spirit and matter. I will support my argument using Asouzu’s Ibuanyidanda ontology and Ijiomah’s Harmonious Monism, two African culture-inspired philosophical systems. In this paper, I employ conversationalism as my philosophical method.
上帝的构成本质是什么?大多数学者认为,上帝是一个绝对的、纯粹的精神,没有物质。在本文中,我从非洲哲学的角度来阐述这一观点。首先,我认为上帝是纯粹精神的假设源于一种被称为二元论的本体论系统。这个系统将现实分为精神和物质,并将精神视为善,物质视为恶。因此,赞同这种二元论的学者,假定上帝,至高的存在是终极的善,是纯粹的精神。其次,我不同意这个观点。运用非洲的二元理论,我认为一切存在的东西都有精神和物质,精神和物质都是好的。因此,上帝作为一个存在的现实由精神和物质组成。我将用Asouzu的Ibuanyidanda本体论和Ijiomah的和谐一元论来支持我的论点,这是两种受非洲文化启发的哲学体系。在本文中,我采用对话主义作为我的哲学方法。
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引用次数: 6
Redefining the Problem of Evil in the Context of a Predeterministic World: New Conversations with the Traditional African Worldview 在预先决定论的世界背景下重新定义邪恶问题:与传统非洲世界观的新对话
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.2
A. D. Attoe
Merciful, holy, all-powerful, all-knowing, spirit, unchanging, the first cause, unknowable. These are just some of the properties that some scholars of African religions have attributed to the being they call God. Setting aside accusations that some of these properties reflect the colonially imposed religions, it is almost taken as a given that these properties really do belong to some of the various versions of the African God. This, then, raises the question: how is it ever the case that the present world, filled with various forms of evil and terror, emanates from a God possessing these same properties? Thus, the African God joins the formidable list of deities for which the problem of evil is relevant. In this essay, I argue that the power of the problem of evil lies in the belief, in many major African traditional religions, that God is a personalized entity. This, in turn, ensures a blind misattribution of the properties (mentioned above) to God. To buttress this point, I begin by presenting a materialistic and de-personalised notion of God that sheds away those properties that are imperceptible and/or are not logically necessary. Next, drawing from this new vision of God, and from religious traditions such as the Luba and Bantu traditions, I provide an account of some properties that can be ascribed to God (such as: genderless, eternal, first cause, material and unconscious), and show how this notion of God enables a predeterministic world. Finally, I show that what we refer to as evil is compatible with the idea of a material, depersonalized and unconscious God, and with the context of a predeterministic world that is indifferent to human experience.
仁慈,神圣,全能,全知,精神,不变,第一原因,不可知。这些只是一些研究非洲宗教的学者认为他们称之为上帝的存在所具有的一些属性。撇开这些属性反映了殖民强加的宗教的指责不提,几乎可以肯定的是,这些属性确实属于不同版本的非洲神。那么,这就提出了一个问题:现在这个充满各种形式的邪恶和恐怖的世界,是如何从一个拥有这些相同属性的上帝发出的呢?因此,非洲之神加入了与邪恶问题相关的令人敬畏的神灵名单。在这篇文章中,我认为邪恶问题的力量在于信仰,在许多主要的非洲传统宗教中,上帝是一个个性化的实体。这反过来又导致了将上述属性盲目地错误归为上帝。为了支持这一观点,我首先提出了一种唯物主义和去人格化的上帝概念,这种概念摆脱了那些难以察觉和/或逻辑上不必要的属性。接下来,根据这种对上帝的新看法,以及像卢巴和班图传统这样的宗教传统,我提供了一些可以归因于上帝的属性(如:无性、永恒、第一因、物质和无意识)的描述,并展示了这种上帝的概念是如何使一个预先决定的世界成为可能的。最后,我表明,我们所说的邪恶与物质的、去人格化的、无意识的上帝的观念是相容的,也与一个对人类经验漠不关心的宿命论世界的背景是相容的。
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引用次数: 4
Relating to the Whole Community in Akan and East Asian Ancestral Traditions 关于阿坎和东亚祖先传统的整个社区
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.12
N. Thurston
Ancestors play crucial roles in the cultural consciousness of diverse traditions, many maintaining ritualistic practices related to commemorating the dead. Ancestor commemoration reinforces cohesion within traditional as well as modern societies, directing a group’s focus to past accomplishments of its cultural heritage whilst providing a unifying narrative of the values that bring and hold a community together. The West African Akan tradition values those who honor their ancestors and, by leading a moral life, seek to become ancestors themselves: persons whose lives enjoy standing in the community beyond their own death. This short paper explores ideas about the role of ancestors as (symbolic) constituents of enduring moral communities by comparing traditional Akan belief to traditional East Asian conceptions of ancestors. The aim is to consider the metaphysical, social, and moral dimensions related to ancestors, highlighting continuity and communal concerns.
祖先在不同传统的文化意识中扮演着至关重要的角色,许多人保持着与纪念死者有关的仪式。祖先纪念活动加强了传统和现代社会的凝聚力,引导一个群体关注其文化遗产的过去成就,同时提供统一的价值观叙事,将社区团结在一起。西非阿坎人的传统重视那些尊敬祖先并通过过道德生活而寻求自己成为祖先的人:那些在死后仍在社会中享有地位的人。这篇短文通过比较传统的阿坎信仰和传统的东亚祖先观念,探讨了祖先作为持久道德社区(象征性)组成部分的作用。其目的是考虑与祖先有关的形而上学,社会和道德层面,突出连续性和共同关注。
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引用次数: 2
Why the Problem of Evil Might not be a Problem after all in African Philosophy of Religion 为什么邪恶的问题在非洲宗教哲学中可能根本不是一个问题
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.3
A. E. Chimakonam
For decades, the problem of evil has occupied a centre stage in the Western philosophical discourse of the existence of God. The problem centres on the unlikelihood to reconcile the existence of an absolute and morally perfect God with the evidence of evil in the universe. This is the evidential problem of evil that has been a source of dispute among theists, atheists, agnostics, and sceptics. There seems to be no end to this dispute, making the problem of evil a perennial one in Western Philosophy of Religion. In this essay, I will contribute to this discourse from an African perspective. This essay, therefore, explores the evidential problem of evil within the African philosophy of religion. I argue that it is unlikely for the evidential problem of evil to be a problem in African philosophy of religion. I invoke an Ejima-based argument to support this claim. I conceptualize the Igbo word Ejima to metaphysically mean the inevitable coexistence of two opposite variables as complements to argue that God could be both good and evil within the African Traditional Religion, which explains why good and evil exist in the universe.
几十年来,邪恶的问题一直占据着西方哲学关于上帝存在论的中心舞台。问题的核心是,要调和一个绝对的、道德上完美的上帝的存在与宇宙中邪恶的证据是不可能的。这就是邪恶的证据问题,它一直是有神论者、无神论者、不可知论者和怀疑论者之间争论的根源。这种争论似乎永无止尽,使恶的问题成为西方宗教哲学中一个永恒的问题。在这篇文章中,我将从非洲的角度为这一论述做出贡献。因此,本文探讨了非洲宗教哲学中邪恶的证据问题。我认为邪恶的证据问题不太可能是非洲宗教哲学的问题。我援引一个以江岛为基础的论点来支持这一说法。我将伊博语中的Ejima概念化,形而上学的意思是两个相反变量的不可避免的共存,作为非洲传统宗教中上帝既可以是善也可以是恶的补充,这就解释了为什么善和恶存在于宇宙中。
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引用次数: 5
Comparing Concepts of God: Translating God in the Chinese and Yoruba Religious Contexts 上帝概念的比较:上帝在中国和约鲁巴宗教语境中的翻译
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.10
G.U. Rouyan
This article discusses the concept of God with a focus on the translation of God in the Chinese and Yoruba religious contexts. Translating the word God is of the essence when comparing concepts of god(s). The translation of the Christian God as Olodumare misrepresents the latter. As suggested by Africanists, there should be appropriate translations for God, Olodumare, and other African gods. As a preliminary comparative attempt, this article presents a case on the introduction of God to the Chinese people. The translation of God into Chinese reflects different views regarding the correlation between the Christian God and the Chinese gods.
本文讨论了上帝的概念,重点讨论了上帝在中国和约鲁巴宗教语境中的翻译。在比较上帝的概念时,翻译“上帝”一词是至关重要的。把基督教的上帝翻译成奥洛多玛雷曲解了后者。正如非洲人建议的那样,上帝、奥洛德马雷和其他非洲神应该有合适的翻译。作为一种初步的比较尝试,本文提出了一个介绍上帝给中国人的案例。“神”一词的汉译反映了人们对基督教神与中国神之间关系的不同看法。
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引用次数: 2
Divinities and Ancestors: A Preliminary Comparison between African and Confucian Cosmologies 神与祖先:非洲与儒家宇宙观的初步比较
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.14
J. Hu
This paper reflects on two sets of terms in the field of religious studies, mainly through a comparative study with the divinities and ancestorship between African and Confucian cosmologies: the first one is the classification of monotheism, polytheism and animism; and the second is so-called ‘ancestor worship’. I argue that the classification system of monotheism, polytheism, and animism is partially invalidated in both African religions and Chinese Confucianism. This is because in both traditions, even if there is a supreme or original being, it is on a continuum or spectrum with other divinities and even human beings, rather than an absolute Other. Similarly, the use of the simple word ‘worship’ to summarise ancestorship in African religions and Chinese Confucianism is actually a simplification of the relationship between the living and ancestors across both traditions.
本文主要通过对非洲和儒家宇宙论的神性和祖先关系的比较研究,对宗教研究领域的两套术语进行反思:一是一神教、多神教和万物有灵论的分类;第二个就是所谓的“祭祖”。我认为一神论、多神论和万物有灵论的分类系统在非洲宗教和中国儒教中都是部分无效的。这是因为在这两种传统中,即使有一个至高无上的或原始的存在,它也与其他神甚至人类在一个连续体或光谱上,而不是一个绝对的他者。同样,用“崇拜”这个简单的词来概括非洲宗教和中国儒家的祖先关系,实际上是简化了两种传统中活着的人和祖先之间的关系。
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Indigenous African Religions (IARs) and the Relational Value of Tolerance: Addressing the evil of violent conflicts in Africa 非洲土著宗教(IARs)和宽容的相关价值:解决非洲暴力冲突的罪恶
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.7
J. Chimakonam
This essay argues that the inherent value of Indigenous African Religions (IARs), which ensures that the belief in different gods does not eclipse the fact of common humanity might be of importance to contemporary Africa plagued by ceaseless conflicts. The IAR ideology contrasts, for example, with that of Christianity which views the Christian God as the one true God and regards those who worship a different God(s) as pagans and gentiles. It also contrasts with the ideology of Islam, which views Allah as the one true God and regards those who worship different God(s) as infidels. The essay claims that social orientation in contemporary Africa is mostly influenced by the divisive ideologies of these two foreign religions that have come to dominate. These divisive ideologies are to a large extent, indirectly responsible for some of the violent conflicts on the continent. This divisive religious orientation bifurcates humanity into in and out-groups that are extended to the social sphere where people from different religious, ethnic and linguistic groups are treated as outsiders and are made targets for attacks like in South Africa and Nigeria today. Further, if we interpret such violent conflicts as evil and consider its source in light of the perennial problem of evil, what would be our response? Using the conversational method, the essay argues that both good and evil are part of the universe, and that if we want more good, then a change from a divisive to a complementary orientation based on the relational values of the IARs is imperative.
本文认为,非洲土著宗教(IARs)的内在价值保证了对不同神的信仰不会掩盖共同人性的事实,这可能对饱受冲突困扰的当代非洲具有重要意义。例如,IAR的意识形态与基督教的意识形态形成鲜明对比,基督教认为基督教的上帝是唯一的真神,而那些崇拜不同上帝的人则是异教徒和异教徒。这也与伊斯兰教的意识形态形成了对比,伊斯兰教认为安拉是唯一的真神,而那些崇拜不同神的人则是异教徒。这篇文章声称,当代非洲的社会取向主要受到这两种外国宗教的分裂意识形态的影响,这两种宗教已经占据主导地位。这些分裂的意识形态在很大程度上间接导致了非洲大陆上的一些暴力冲突。这种分裂的宗教倾向将人类分为内部群体和外部群体,这些群体延伸到社会领域,来自不同宗教、种族和语言群体的人被视为局外人,并成为攻击的目标,就像今天在南非和尼日利亚那样。此外,如果我们把这种暴力冲突解释为邪恶,并根据长期存在的邪恶问题来考虑其根源,我们的反应会是什么?通过对话的方式,这篇文章认为善与恶都是宇宙的一部分,如果我们想要更多的善,那么基于IARs的关系价值,从分裂的方向转变为互补的方向是必要的。
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Augustine, Ancestors and the Problem of Evil: African Religions, the Donatists, and the African Manichees 奥古斯丁,《祖先与邪恶的问题:非洲宗教、多纳图派和非洲摩尼教》
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.9
Wei Hua
In this paper, I compare the philosophy of Augustine with the philosophy of relevant African traditions: Donatists, Manichees, and African traditional religions. I try to demonstrate that Augustine’s religious thought was partly influenced by local African religions or movements, but also differed from them substantially. I will carry out this comparative work looking at two important issues: (a) the problem of evil and (b) the existence of other supernatural entities, such as ancestors, and their relationship with humans. These comparisons lead to a new understanding of evil in Augustine’s thought; namely, evil as an inevitable world phenomenon.
在本文中,我将奥古斯丁的哲学与相关的非洲传统哲学进行了比较:多纳图派、摩尼教和非洲传统宗教。我试图证明奥古斯丁的宗教思想部分受到非洲当地宗教或运动的影响,但也与他们有很大的不同。我将对两个重要问题进行比较研究:(a)邪恶的问题;(b)其他超自然实体的存在,比如祖先,以及它们与人类的关系。这些比较使我们对奥古斯丁思想中的恶有了新的认识;也就是说,邪恶是一种不可避免的世界现象。
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