Robin Horton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81681 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robin Horton |
| NOMBRES | Robin |
| APELLIDO | Horton |
| FIRMA | HORTON R |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancet Laboratories |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1792-5408 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 909 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1960 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders and health professionals to recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges.…
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
Reduzindo os riscos de uma guerra nuclear – o papel dos profissionais de saúde
Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War—The Role of Health Professionals
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
Llamamiento a la acción urgente para limitar el aumento de la temperatura global, restaurar la biodiversidad y proteger la salud
Apelo por ação emergencial para limitar o aumento da temperatura global, restaurar a biodiversidade e proteger a saúde
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Llamamiento a adoptar medidas urgentes para limitar los aumentos de temperatura en el mundo, restablecer la diversidad biológica y proteger la salud
[Extracto] En septiembre del 2021, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas reunirá a los países en un momento crucial para organizar la acción colectiva con el propósito de hacer frente a la crisis medioambiental mundial. Se reunirán una vez más en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Diversidad Biológica, en Kunming (China) y en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CP26), en Glasgow (Escocia). Antes de la…
Chamada para ação emergencial para limitar o aumento da temperatura global, restaurar a biodiversidade e proteger a saúde
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Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies
Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting
Measurements of health indicators are rarely available for every population and period of interest, and available data may not be comparable. The Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER) define best reporting practices for studies that calculate health estimates for multiple populations (in time or space) using multiple information sources. Health estimates that fall within the scope of GATHER include all quanti…
Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch
Faith-based delivery of science-based care
From public to planetary health
Global health 2035
countries can be reduced by 2035 through inexpensive population-based and clinical interventions. Fiscal policies are an especially promising lever for reducing this burden.
Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis
Kay Ruth M. Williamson (1935–2005)
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Mr. Thornton's Experiments
Mr. Thornton's Experiments:Transformations in Culture and Health Richard Horton (bio) We have chosen to reproduce as closely as possible the oral rhetoric and "experience" of the following text, for its power derives from its generic nature as manifesto and examination of conscience. We have listed all works cited in the bibliography, but we have neither tampered with the tempo, the grammar, or the stream-of-consciousness texture of the piece nor…
Khaled Ben Slimane
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West. Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
Opening ParagraphThe first part of this paper seeks to develop an approach to traditional African thought already sketched in several previous contributions to this journal. My approach to this topic is strongly influenced by the feeling that social anthropologists have often failed to understand traditional religious thought for two main reasons. First, many of them have been unfamiliar with the theoretical thinking of their own culture. This ha…
African Conversion
Opening ParagraphFor nearly fifty years the Aladura or 'prayer' churches have been a prominent feature of the Nigerian scene. Their drumming and singing can nowadays be heard at almost any time of day or night in most of the larger southern Nigerian towns. Their prophets and pastors exert a guiding influence on the lives of an everlarger proportion of the population. And recently they have even been credited with an important part in bringing reb…
On the rationality of conversion (Part I)
IntroductionIn a recent article in this journal I sketched the outline of a theory which I suggested might help us to make sense of a large but puzzling accumulation of data relating to the 'conversion' of African peoples to Islam and Christianity. The theory evoked a vigorous critical response, also in this journal, from the Islamist Humphrey Fisher. In the present paper I shall reply to Fisher's criticism. In the process, I hope to show that th…
On the rationality of conversion (Part II)
IntroductionIn the first part of this paper I began by dealing with those of Fisher's objections to the Intellectualist Theory which seemed to me to require short, sharp, and destructive answers. I then went on to consider an objection which seemed to require a longer and more constructive answer. This was the objection that the Theory did not account adequately for variation in the concept and cult of the supreme being in settings uninfluenced b…
Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies
A Definition of Religion, and its Uses
The Kalabari World-View
IntroductionThe Kalabari people live in twenty-two villages and three small towns in the tidal mangrove swamps of the eastern Niger Delta. Linguistically, they are part of the great bloc of Ijo-speaking peoples who fill the Delta; but they form a distinct subgroup both in dialect and in culture. The traditional economy of most of these communities is based on fishing, with surplus fish exported to the hinterland markets and vegetables brought dow…
Ritual Man in Africa
Opening ParagraphThis paper starts with a critique of two recent essays on African religion-Professor Max Gluckman's essay 'Les Rites de Passage', and Dr. V. W. Turner's Chihamba: the White Spirit. Though the first is a generalized interpretation of African rituals, and the second a close study of one rite in a particular culture, the two make an interesting comparison. First of all, they are inspired by strongly contrasted theoretical premisses.…
Neo-Tylorianism
The Kalabari Ekine Society
Opening ParagraphOne of the pillars of traditional Kalahari culture is the Ekine Men's Society, otherwise known as Sekiapu-'The Dancing People'. But although many Kalahari talk of Ekine as 'one of our highest things', it is an institution remarkably difficult to pin down and define.On the face of it, Ekine serves many disparate ends. At a superficial glance, it appears as a religious institution, designed to solicit the help of the water spirits1…
Destiny and the Unconscious in West Africa
Opening ParagraphMany present-day social anthropologists may find Professor Fortes's most recent study the most significant of all his works on the Tallensi. Its main theme is the way in which these people use religious concepts to order and explain certain key aspects of the individual's passage through the social structure, and operate religious cults to facilitate this passage
Judaeo-Christian Spectacles
R. Horton - Les lunettes judéo-chrétiennes : aubaine ou fléau pour l'étude des religions africaines ? Jusqu'à une date récente, l'étude comparative des religions africaines était dominée par des anthropologues occidentaux de tendance personnelle athée ou agnostique. Cette tendance « orthodoxe » est battue en brèche par une nouvelle vague, en partie africaine, d'ethnologues, théologiens et philosophes d'inspiration chrétienne, qui constituent 1' «…
Professor Winch on Safari
One of the most widely cited of recent writings on the borderland of philosophy and anthropology is Peter Winch's 'Understanding a Primitive Society' (referred to hereafter asUPS)(I). The main reason for the breadth of its appeal would seem to be a blend of general principle and particular application all too seldom found in the writings of philosophers of social science. Thus, on the one hand, Winch develops further some of the general principle…
Conversion and Confusion
In a recent article in this journal,' Dr. Caroline Ifeka-Moller contrasted two approaches to the understanding of religious change in Africa. One approach, the intellectualist, sees new forms of religious behaviour as the outcome of people's attempts to make sense of changes in their situation. The other approach sees new religious forms as the outcome of social-structural changes. It is the superiority of the latter approach over the former whic…
A Definition of Religion, and its Uses
Destiny and the Unconscious in West Africa
Opening ParagraphMany present-day social anthropologists may find Professor Fortes's most recent study the most significant of all his works on the Tallensi. Its main theme is the way in which these people use religious concepts to order and explain certain key aspects of the individual's passage through the social structure, and operate religious cults to facilitate this passage
The Kalabari World-View
IntroductionThe Kalabari people live in twenty-two villages and three small towns in the tidal mangrove swamps of the eastern Niger Delta. Linguistically, they are part of the great bloc of Ijo-speaking peoples who fill the Delta; but they form a distinct subgroup both in dialect and in culture. The traditional economy of most of these communities is based on fishing, with surplus fish exported to the hinterland markets and vegetables brought dow…
The Kalabari Ekine Society
Opening ParagraphOne of the pillars of traditional Kalahari culture is the Ekine Men's Society, otherwise known as Sekiapu-'The Dancing People'. But although many Kalahari talk of Ekine as 'one of our highest things', it is an institution remarkably difficult to pin down and define.On the face of it, Ekine serves many disparate ends. At a superficial glance, it appears as a religious institution, designed to solicit the help of the water spirits1…
Ritual Man in Africa
Opening ParagraphThis paper starts with a critique of two recent essays on African religion-Professor Max Gluckman's essay 'Les Rites de Passage', and Dr. V. W. Turner's Chihamba: the White Spirit. Though the first is a generalized interpretation of African rituals, and the second a close study of one rite in a particular culture, the two make an interesting comparison. First of all, they are inspired by strongly contrasted theoretical premisses.…
Kalabari Sculpture
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
Opening ParagraphThe first part of this paper seeks to develop an approach to traditional African thought already sketched in several previous contributions to this journal. My approach to this topic is strongly influenced by the feeling that social anthropologists have often failed to understand traditional religious thought for two main reasons. First, many of them have been unfamiliar with the theoretical thinking of their own culture. This ha…
Neo-Tylorianism
African Conversion
Opening ParagraphFor nearly fifty years the Aladura or 'prayer' churches have been a prominent feature of the Nigerian scene. Their drumming and singing can nowadays be heard at almost any time of day or night in most of the larger southern Nigerian towns. Their prophets and pastors exert a guiding influence on the lives of an everlarger proportion of the population. And recently they have even been credited with an important part in bringing reb…
French Summary of 'African Conversion
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Paradox and Explanation
Paradox and Explanation
Modes of Thought
On the rationality of conversion (Part I)
IntroductionIn a recent article in this journal I sketched the outline of a theory which I suggested might help us to make sense of a large but puzzling accumulation of data relating to the 'conversion' of African peoples to Islam and Christianity. The theory evoked a vigorous critical response, also in this journal, from the Islamist Humphrey Fisher. In the present paper I shall reply to Fisher's criticism. In the process, I hope to show that th…
On the rationality of conversion (Part II)
IntroductionIn the first part of this paper I began by dealing with those of Fisher's objections to the Intellectualist Theory which seemed to me to require short, sharp, and destructive answers. I then went on to consider an objection which seemed to require a longer and more constructive answer. This was the objection that the Theory did not account adequately for variation in the concept and cult of the supreme being in settings uninfluenced b…
Professor Winch on Safari
One of the most widely cited of recent writings on the borderland of philosophy and anthropology is Peter Winch's 'Understanding a Primitive Society' (referred to hereafter asUPS)(I). The main reason for the breadth of its appeal would seem to be a blend of general principle and particular application all too seldom found in the writings of philosophers of social science. Thus, on the one hand, Winch develops further some of the general principle…
Conversion and Confusion
In a recent article in this journal,' Dr. Caroline Ifeka-Moller contrasted two approaches to the understanding of religious change in Africa. One approach, the intellectualist, sees new forms of religious behaviour as the outcome of people's attempts to make sense of changes in their situation. The other approach sees new religious forms as the outcome of social-structural changes. It is the superiority of the latter approach over the former whic…
Judaeo-Christian Spectacles
R. Horton - Les lunettes judéo-chrétiennes : aubaine ou fléau pour l'étude des religions africaines ? Jusqu'à une date récente, l'étude comparative des religions africaines était dominée par des anthropologues occidentaux de tendance personnelle athée ou agnostique. Cette tendance « orthodoxe » est battue en brèche par une nouvelle vague, en partie africaine, d'ethnologues, théologiens et philosophes d'inspiration chrétienne, qui constituent 1' «…
Oedipus and Job in West African Religions
Michael Crowder
La Tradition et la modernité revisitées
Introduction Dans un article publié en 1967 (Horton 1967), j’avais étudié les similitudes et les différences entre les modes de pensée de l’Afrique et de l’Occident, en voyant dans l’Afrique le modèle vivant de la « traditionalité » et dans l’Occident le pionnier de la « modernité ». D’entrée de jeu, je m’étais référé à la proposition largement ignorée de Durkheim, qui veut qu’il existe une continuité entre la pensée spiritualiste des cultures tr…
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West
Robin Horton's critical and creative writings on African religious thought have influenced anthropologists, philosophers, and all those interested in the comparative study of religion and thought. This selection of some of his classic papers, with a new introduction and postscript by the author, traces Horton's theoretical ideas over thirty years. In attempting to understand African religious thought, he also tackles broader issues in the history…
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West. Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
Political science (22 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Philosophy (21 obras) · History (12 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Epistemology (11 obras) · African cultural and philosophical studies (9 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Art (8 obras)