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Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy

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  1. V. Y. Mudimbe

    1. The Program in Literature, Duke University, Durham, USA

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  2. Kasereka Kavwahirehi

    1. Department of French, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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  • Offers a synthesis of African studies since the early 1980s
  • Presents African thinkers, concepts, and traditions
  • Considers all religious and philosophical systems of Africa

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Table of contents (398 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. A

    1. Accad, Evelyne

      • miriam cooke
      Pages 1-1

    2. Acculturation

      • John Middleton
      Pages 1-2

    3. Act (Mental)

      • Kwasi Wiredu
      Pages 2-3

    4. Adornment, Bodily

      • Atieno Odhiambo
      Pages 3-5

    5. Aesthetic, African

      • Kariamu Welsh Asante
      Pages 5-7

    6. Aesthetic, African Dance

      • Kariamu Welsh Asante
      Pages 7-9

    7. Africa, Central

      • Catharina Newbury
      Pages 9-11

    8. African Anthropology

      • Gilles Bibeau
      Pages 11-13

    9. African Diaspora, Religion in

      • John K. Thornton
      Pages 13-15

    10. African Feminism, The Emergence of

      • Gertrude Mianda
      Pages 15-16

    11. African Language, Prayers and Hymns in

      • Jan Knappert
      Pages 17-20

    12. African Philosophy in America

      • Leonard Harris
      Pages 20-21

    13. African Philosophy Incipit

      • V. Y. Mudimbe
      Pages 21-22

    14. African Philosophy, Search for Identity of

      • Jay M. Van Hook
      Pages 23-24

    15. African Philosophy: The End of a Debate

      • Henry Odera Oruka
      Pages 24-26

    16. African Spiritual Beliefs

      • D. N. Kaphagawani
      Pages 26-27

    18. African Traditional Religions, Philosophy of

      • Segun Gbadegesin
      Pages 30-31
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About this book

This comprehensive encyclopedia presents African thinkers, concepts and traditions, with a focus on African religious and philosophical practices. It offers a dependable and significant synthesis of African studies that encompasses major trends in the field since the early 1980s. The encyclopedia considers all religious and philosophical systems of Africa, both indigenous and non-indigenous. It also recognizes the determining role of the Diaspora in understanding African traditions and African identity. The work has benefited immensely from commitments in advanced interdisciplinary exchanges in a number of domains, including comparative research in epistemology and from surveys in postcolonial studies and social sciences, along with religious and philosophical compendia. In brief, this is an encyclopedia made from the viewpoint of African studies and in dialogue with scientific traditions
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The Program in Literature, Duke University, Durham, USA

    V. Y. Mudimbe

  • Department of French, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Kasereka Kavwahirehi

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About the editors

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe received his  B. A. in Romance Philology  from Lovanium University (Kinshasa, Congo RDC) in 1966, and his Doctorat en Philosophie et Lettres from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1970. Before arriving at Duke University where he became Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature, he taught at the Universities of Paris-Nanterre, Congo (RDC), Haverford College, Stanford, and lectured at many other universities throughout Africa, Europe and North America, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales in Paris. He is known worldwide for two path-breaking and greatly influential books: The Invention of Africa. Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (1988) and The Idea of Africa (1994).V.Y. Mudimbe has received several honorary degrees in recognition of his achievements as a scholar. In 1997, he became Doctor Honoris Causa at Université Paris VII Diderot; in 2006, at KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, and in 2012, at Laval University, Quebec. He is a Membre Honoraire Correspondant de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre- Mer (Belgium); a Member of the American Society of Philosophy in French (Société américaine de philosophie de langue française); as well as of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. He served as Chairman of the Board of African Philosophy, and from 2000 to 2013, as the Chairman of the International African Institute (SOAS, University of London).

Kasereka Kavwahirehi is a professor of Francophone literatures at the University of Ottawa. He received a B.A. in philosophy from the Faculté de Philosophie Saint-Pierre Canisius in Congo in 1994, a M.A. in Philosophie et lettres from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1998, and a PhD. in French studies from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) in 2003. He was a Fellow ofAlexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Bayreuth (2010-2011) as well as of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2018-2019). He is a specialist in Francophone literatures  with particular interests in literatures and social discourse, religion and politics in Africa, and African philosophy.

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