Images of traditional African religions in surveys of world religions

Religion ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
World Religions ◽  
African Religions

Recovering African Religions as “World Religions”: The Case of the Zulu Religion

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-134
Author(s):  
Willy L. Mafuta ◽  
Chammah J. Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
World Religions ◽  
African Religions

scholarly journals The Black Madonna: A Theoretical Framework for the African Origins of Other World Religious Beliefs

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 511
Author(s):  
Janet Michello
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
World Religions ◽  
African Religions ◽  
Black Madonna ◽  
Theories Of Religion ◽  
Simplistic Notion ◽  
Abrahamic Religions ◽  
Other World

This review summarizes existing scholarship in order to theorize how Abrahamic religions and Hinduism were influenced by African beliefs, in order to illuminate the contributions that African beliefs have had on other world religions. The review begins with a brief historical overview of the origins of indigenous ideologies, followed by a review of classical theories of religion and a summary of contemporary religious trends, with particular attention on African beliefs. The Black Madonna, with origins in Africa, is a prominent example of how African beliefs have been integrated into other faiths in ways that are often obscured from view. The Black Madonna is compared with the characteristics and symbolism of the traditional fair-skinned Virgin Mary. It is estimated that there are hundreds of depictions of the Black Madonna, yet her identity as truly black is generally minimized. This review contributes a theoretical rationale for the lack of recognition and acceptance of the Madonna as black, contextualizing this within a feminist theoretical viewpoint and analyzing the connection to African folklore and traditional religious beliefs. The theoretical framework articulated in this paper contributes an elucidation of the ways that indigenous African religions have affected other world religions. Acknowledging this influence challenges the simplistic notion of reified distinctions between Western and non-Western religions.

World Christianity, ‘World Religions’ and the Challenge of Insider Movements

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-103
Author(s):  
Christian J. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
World Religion ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
Enlightenment Project ◽  
World Christianity ◽  
Other World ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
The One ◽  
Insider Movements

While studies in World Christianity have frequently referred to Christianity as a ‘world religion’, this article argues that such a category is problematic. Insider movements directly challenge the category, since they are movements of faith in Jesus that fall within another ‘world religion’ altogether – usually Islam or Hinduism. Rather than being an oddity of the mission frontier, insider movements expose ambiguities already present in World Christianity studies concerning the concept of ‘religion’ and how we understand the unity of the World Christian movement. The article first examines distortions that occur when religion is referred to on the one hand as localised practices which can be reoriented and taken up into World Christianity and, on the other hand, as ‘world religion’, where Christianity is sharply discontinuous with other world systems. Second, the article draws from the field of religious studies, where several writers have argued that the scholarly ‘world religion’ category originates from a European Enlightenment project whose modernist assumptions are now questionable. Third, the particular challenge of insider movements is expanded on – their use of non-Christian cultural-religious systems as spaces for Christ worship, and their redrawing of assumed Christian boundaries. Finally, the article sketches out two principles for understanding Christianity's unity in a way that takes into account the religious (1) as a historical series of cultural-religious transmissions and receptions of the Christian message, which emanates from margins like those being crossed by insider movements, and (2) as a religiously syncretic process of change that occurs with Christ as the prime authority.

A IMPORTÂNCIA DE ROGER BASTIDE COMO UM “DIVISOR DE ÁGUAS” PARA OS ESTUDOS DAS RELIGIÕES AFRO-BRASILEIRAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 005
Author(s):  
Sergio Sezino Douets Vasconcelos ◽  
Aerton Alexander de Carvalho Silva
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
African Religions ◽  
Black Person ◽  
Religious Syncretism ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Brazilian Studies ◽  
Afro Brazilian

Este artigo busca compreender a importância das pesquisas de Roger Bastide, como um provocador da virada epistemológica nos estudos afro-brasileiros, marcando um novo lugar de percepção, a partir do qual se vem buscando analisar as ricas e complexas redes de construção no seio das religiões e religiosidades afro-brasileiras. Bastide foi o primeiro pesquisador no Brasil que buscou, de forma interdisciplinar, compreender a construção das religiões africanas no Brasil, a partir da perspectiva do próprio negro. O presente trabalho busca apresentar alguns momentos dos estudos afro-brasileiros sobre o sincretismo afro-católico, como cenário para compreender o salto qualitativo que a pesquisa de Roger Bastide provocou nos estudos sobre o sincretismo afro-católico no Brasil.Palavras-chave: Roger Bastide, Sincretismo afro-católico, Sincretismo religiosoTHE IMPORTANCE OF ROGER BASTIDE AS A "TURNING POINT" FOR THE STUDIES OF AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONSAbstract:This article aims to understand the researches of Roger Bastide, as a provocateur of the “epistemological turn”, in Afro-Brazilian studies, marking a new perception from which one has been searching analyzing the rich and complex network of construction within religions and Afro-Brazilian religiosities. Bastide was the first researcher in Brazil who sought, in an interdisciplinary way, to understand the construction of African religions in Brazil, from the perspective of the black person/black himself. The present study seeks to present some moments of Afro-Brazilian studies on Afro-Catholic syncretism as a scenario to understand the qualitative improvement that Roger Bastide's research has provoked in the studies on Afro-Catholic syncretism in Brazil.Keywords: Roger Bastide, Afro-Catholic Syncretism, Religious Syncretism

Pluralism in the World Religions

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoàng Văn Chung
Keyword(s):  
World Religions ◽  
The World

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN KAZAKHSTAN: THREATS OF SPREADING AND MEANS OF OPPOSITION

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Kalimash Begalinova ◽  
Madina Ashilov ◽  
Alibek Begalinov
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
World Religions ◽  
External Stability ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
Feasible Solutions ◽  
Internal And External Stability

Today, regional integration and globalization have added new dimensions to the problems of violence, religious extremism and terrorism that attract a lot of attention in the academic community of many counties. A polyconfessional and polyethnic state, Kazakhstan, where various trends of world religions are inevitably present, is especially aware of the problem of religious extremism. In these conditions, interconfessional relations as a guarantor of internal and external stability in our republic is one of its most important problems. This article presents the aspects related to the religious environment and threats of religious extremism in Kazakhstan and outlines feasible solutions.

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