Justin Sands
Biographic Data
| ID | 460491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Sands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sands |
| SIGNATURE | SANDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3536-5467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Where does philosophy begin when rationality is denied? Tsenay Serequeberhan’s concept of a lived existence as a means of decolonizing philosophy
Tsenay Serequeberhan’s hermeneutics has been crucial to the development of African philosophy. Initially employed as a pathway through the ethno- and professional philosophical debates, scholars have engaged how Serequeberhan’s hermeneutics grapples with one’s own place within a socio-historical world in service of liberation/self-determination. However, this scholarship mainly has focused on his adaptation of Gadamer’s ‘effective-historical cons…
Reading Wiredu, written by Barry Hallen
The Cultural Biographies of West African Wooden Sculptures in Sao Paulo, Brazil
This article is a combined effort of an author from Brazil and an author in South Africa to identify and comprehend the trajectories African wooden sculptures go through in their material cultural biographies. Wooden sculpting has always been part of African traditions. Africa’s many artisans and markets provided and still provide a great number of wooden sculptures, which are now in several parts of the world, especially among former colonizers …
Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges
Confessional Discourses, Radicalizing Traditions: On John Caputo and the Theological Turn
This article explores the theological turn through the work of John Caputo, who famously transitioned from a philosopher of religion to a “weak theologian,” and later as a “radical theologian.” In so doing it argues that Caputo’s work as a radical theologian is an attempt at a practical performance of religion without religion: he inhabits the discourse of theology while radicalizing the tradition against itself. This article will show the value …
Atheism for lent? Discipleship, praxis, and expanding the canonical masters of suspicion | Ateísmo para a quaresma? Discipulado, práxis, e expansão do cânone dos mestres da suspeita
This article explores how the “Masters of Suspicion” can be used for understanding discipleship. From this, it queries into expanding this canon of masters to include decolonial thinkers. Resultantly, this article explores potential contributions to the life of faith from thinkers such as Achille Mbembe and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. To situate its argument, the article engages Merold Westphal, who articulates a form of Christian discipleship through a h…
Hermeneutics, history, and d’où parlez vous ? Paul Ricoeur and Tsenay Serequeberhan on how to engage African philosophy from a Western context
This article presents a possible method to engage African thought from a Western context. It does so by first showing the need for such an engagement by arguing that philosophical research is dominated by Western normativity: in phenomenology, for example, questions and answers gathered in this method more often than not ignore other cultures and perspectives, thus yielding results that only reflect a Western historico-cultural context. In order …
Transforming the Conversation: What Is Liberation and from What Is It Liberating Us? A Critical Response to “Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Libe…
The Religions special issue, “Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Liberation Theology in Dialogue,” addresses the concern over the present postcolonial context in which African persons and societies find themselves. The issue attempts to gain a further understanding of this context through a dialogue between these three disciplines, but what emerges from this attempt? As a critical response to th…
Technical filmmaking and scientific narratives: Has science overtaken fiction in recent science fiction? An analysis of Gravity , Interstellar , and The Martian
One can view the recent science fiction films Gravity, Interstellar, and The Martian as a three-part dialogue concerning the existential relationship between humanity, technology, and the science employed to create said technologies. Pitched into the deep of space, each film’s protagonist must seek to find technological answers to save their own existence. Each film’s exploration of these themes essentially questions the importance of technology …
Introducing Cardinal Cardijn's See-Judge-Act as an Interdisciplinary Method to Move Theory into Practice
Interdisciplinary dialogues find researchers seeking better understandings of theories and concepts, such colonialism and capitalism, and the means through which these concepts impact both local and global cultures. The results of explorations such as these raise the question of how to translate the theories that are created by these dialogues into practice. Moreover, they ask where we can take these conversations, how can we focus them toward sp…
After Onto-Theology: What Lies beyond the 'End of Everything
This article takes up the onto-theological critique of metaphysics and questions whether onto-theology is not something to evade or overcome, but is inevitable. Consequently, it furthers the exploration of onto-theology by asking, if it is inevitable, then what comes after onto-theology? For the past half-century, onto-theology has been a central concern for philosophy, particularly in phenomenology where one sees a theological turn in order to u…
"Introduction to "In Anticipation: Eschatology and Transcendence in Contemporary Contexts
Although it is difficult to pinpoint when the so-called theological turn in Continental philosophy began in the 20th century, it is fair to consider as a working origin that Martin Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and his questioning of the forgetfulness of Being touched a nerve within both philosophical and theological discourses
Passing through Customs: Merold Westphal, Richard Kearney, and the Methodological Boundaries between Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Continental philosophers of religion and the theologians who engage with them have recently began to blur the lines between the disciplines of philosophy and theology. This is particularly true after the so-called "theological turn" in phenomenology. I argue for an appreciation of their approaches but will also express that these explorations must remain interdisciplinary. Far too often philosophers and theologians alike appropriate freely within…
Lost ground: Jim Hanson’s “neo-ontotheology” in dialogue with Merold Westphal
In his article, “Ontos and Theos: A Case for Neo-Ontotheology,” Jim Hanson argues for a re-examination of onto-theology and its importance to theology. This article responds critically to his understanding of what onto-theology is and is not through exploring the concept of onto-theology and giving a case study of postmodern thought’s overcoming of this metaphysical problem. The goal of this exercise is to show that, while Jim Hanson is correct t…
Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges
Introducing Cardinal Cardijn's See-Judge-Act as an Interdisciplinary Method to Move Theory into Practice
Interdisciplinary dialogues find researchers seeking better understandings of theories and concepts, such colonialism and capitalism, and the means through which these concepts impact both local and global cultures. The results of explorations such as these raise the question of how to translate the theories that are created by these dialogues into practice. Moreover, they ask where we can take these conversations, how can we focus them toward sp…
Passing through Customs: Merold Westphal, Richard Kearney, and the Methodological Boundaries between Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Continental philosophers of religion and the theologians who engage with them have recently began to blur the lines between the disciplines of philosophy and theology. This is particularly true after the so-called "theological turn" in phenomenology. I argue for an appreciation of their approaches but will also express that these explorations must remain interdisciplinary. Far too often philosophers and theologians alike appropriate freely within…
The Cultural Biographies of West African Wooden Sculptures in Sao Paulo, Brazil
This article is a combined effort of an author from Brazil and an author in South Africa to identify and comprehend the trajectories African wooden sculptures go through in their material cultural biographies. Wooden sculpting has always been part of African traditions. Africa’s many artisans and markets provided and still provide a great number of wooden sculptures, which are now in several parts of the world, especially among former colonizers …
Technical filmmaking and scientific narratives: Has science overtaken fiction in recent science fiction? An analysis of Gravity , Interstellar , and The Martian
One can view the recent science fiction films Gravity, Interstellar, and The Martian as a three-part dialogue concerning the existential relationship between humanity, technology, and the science employed to create said technologies. Pitched into the deep of space, each film’s protagonist must seek to find technological answers to save their own existence. Each film’s exploration of these themes essentially questions the importance of technology …
After Onto-Theology: What Lies beyond the 'End of Everything
This article takes up the onto-theological critique of metaphysics and questions whether onto-theology is not something to evade or overcome, but is inevitable. Consequently, it furthers the exploration of onto-theology by asking, if it is inevitable, then what comes after onto-theology? For the past half-century, onto-theology has been a central concern for philosophy, particularly in phenomenology where one sees a theological turn in order to u…
Lost ground: Jim Hanson’s “neo-ontotheology” in dialogue with Merold Westphal
In his article, “Ontos and Theos: A Case for Neo-Ontotheology,” Jim Hanson argues for a re-examination of onto-theology and its importance to theology. This article responds critically to his understanding of what onto-theology is and is not through exploring the concept of onto-theology and giving a case study of postmodern thought’s overcoming of this metaphysical problem. The goal of this exercise is to show that, while Jim Hanson is correct t…
Passing through Customs: Merold Westphal, Richard Kearney, and the Methodological Boundaries between Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Continental philosophers of religion and the theologians who engage with them have recently began to blur the lines between the disciplines of philosophy and theology. This is particularly true after the so-called "theological turn" in phenomenology. I argue for an appreciation of their approaches but will also express that these explorations must remain interdisciplinary. Far too often philosophers and theologians alike appropriate freely within…
After Onto-Theology: What Lies beyond the 'End of Everything
This article takes up the onto-theological critique of metaphysics and questions whether onto-theology is not something to evade or overcome, but is inevitable. Consequently, it furthers the exploration of onto-theology by asking, if it is inevitable, then what comes after onto-theology? For the past half-century, onto-theology has been a central concern for philosophy, particularly in phenomenology where one sees a theological turn in order to u…
"Introduction to "In Anticipation: Eschatology and Transcendence in Contemporary Contexts
Although it is difficult to pinpoint when the so-called theological turn in Continental philosophy began in the 20th century, it is fair to consider as a working origin that Martin Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and his questioning of the forgetfulness of Being touched a nerve within both philosophical and theological discourses
Transforming the Conversation: What Is Liberation and from What Is It Liberating Us? A Critical Response to “Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Libe…
The Religions special issue, “Transforming Encounters and Critical Reflection: African Thought, Critical Theory, and Liberation Theology in Dialogue,” addresses the concern over the present postcolonial context in which African persons and societies find themselves. The issue attempts to gain a further understanding of this context through a dialogue between these three disciplines, but what emerges from this attempt? As a critical response to th…
Technical filmmaking and scientific narratives: Has science overtaken fiction in recent science fiction? An analysis of Gravity , Interstellar , and The Martian
One can view the recent science fiction films Gravity, Interstellar, and The Martian as a three-part dialogue concerning the existential relationship between humanity, technology, and the science employed to create said technologies. Pitched into the deep of space, each film’s protagonist must seek to find technological answers to save their own existence. Each film’s exploration of these themes essentially questions the importance of technology …
Introducing Cardinal Cardijn's See-Judge-Act as an Interdisciplinary Method to Move Theory into Practice
Interdisciplinary dialogues find researchers seeking better understandings of theories and concepts, such colonialism and capitalism, and the means through which these concepts impact both local and global cultures. The results of explorations such as these raise the question of how to translate the theories that are created by these dialogues into practice. Moreover, they ask where we can take these conversations, how can we focus them toward sp…
Hermeneutics, history, and d’où parlez vous ? Paul Ricoeur and Tsenay Serequeberhan on how to engage African philosophy from a Western context
This article presents a possible method to engage African thought from a Western context. It does so by first showing the need for such an engagement by arguing that philosophical research is dominated by Western normativity: in phenomenology, for example, questions and answers gathered in this method more often than not ignore other cultures and perspectives, thus yielding results that only reflect a Western historico-cultural context. In order …
Atheism for lent? Discipleship, praxis, and expanding the canonical masters of suspicion | Ateísmo para a quaresma? Discipulado, práxis, e expansão do cânone dos mestres da suspeita
This article explores how the “Masters of Suspicion” can be used for understanding discipleship. From this, it queries into expanding this canon of masters to include decolonial thinkers. Resultantly, this article explores potential contributions to the life of faith from thinkers such as Achille Mbembe and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. To situate its argument, the article engages Merold Westphal, who articulates a form of Christian discipleship through a h…
Confessional Discourses, Radicalizing Traditions: On John Caputo and the Theological Turn
This article explores the theological turn through the work of John Caputo, who famously transitioned from a philosopher of religion to a “weak theologian,” and later as a “radical theologian.” In so doing it argues that Caputo’s work as a radical theologian is an attempt at a practical performance of religion without religion: he inhabits the discourse of theology while radicalizing the tradition against itself. This article will show the value …
Reading Wiredu, written by Barry Hallen
The Cultural Biographies of West African Wooden Sculptures in Sao Paulo, Brazil
This article is a combined effort of an author from Brazil and an author in South Africa to identify and comprehend the trajectories African wooden sculptures go through in their material cultural biographies. Wooden sculpting has always been part of African traditions. Africa’s many artisans and markets provided and still provide a great number of wooden sculptures, which are now in several parts of the world, especially among former colonizers …
Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges
Where does philosophy begin when rationality is denied? Tsenay Serequeberhan’s concept of a lived existence as a means of decolonizing philosophy
Tsenay Serequeberhan’s hermeneutics has been crucial to the development of African philosophy. Initially employed as a pathway through the ethno- and professional philosophical debates, scholars have engaged how Serequeberhan’s hermeneutics grapples with one’s own place within a socio-historical world in service of liberation/self-determination. However, this scholarship mainly has focused on his adaptation of Gadamer’s ‘effective-historical cons…
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Theology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · African philosophy (3 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (3 works) · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (3 works)