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Title |
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9. The Idea of the Holy in African Religions - The Holy in a Pluralistic World |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Robert M. Baum; Dartmouth College; |
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Religious Studies |
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Rudolf Otto; The Idea of the Holy; mysterium tremendum; history of the study of religion; philosophy of religion |
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Religious Studies; Theology; Cultural Studies; Intellectual History |
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Description |
Abstract |
In this chapter I discuss the relationship between Rudolf Otto’s concept of numinous experience and certain African religious traditions, relying primarily on my field research among the Diola of West Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast. Accounts of Diola religious life offer clear evidence of the experience of the wholly other that both evokes awe and simultaneously draws people into intimate connection and more normalized communication with the supreme being, in which It ceases to be “wholly other” or incomprehensible. In this way, I argue that African religious traditions both support Otto’s description of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, and would have strengthened it as well, making it more inclusive of the wide array of the world’s religious experiences. My analysis also challenges those areas of Otto’s (or anyone’s) theory of religion where he allows evolutionary schemas to creep in and relegate African religious life to the “pre-religious” or “primitive.” |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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17-Jun-2022 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/30392 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.30392 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Holy in a Pluralistic World |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |