Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West
Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19925856 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Horton (0000-0003-1792-5408, University of Port Harcourt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science, Brad Wei, 1996 |
| Venue | Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139166232 |
| OpenAlex | W4247217722 |
| Open Library | OL1719916M |
| ISBN | 9781139166232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 166 |
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 and sociology of thought, such as secularisation and modernisation. Part I is a critical assessment of two established interpretive approaches, the Symbolist and the Theological. Part II proposes an alternative 'Intellectualist' approach that emphasises the structural and processual similarities between religious and scientific thinking. The postscript appraises the Intellectualist approach in the light of theorising about religion and world views
Epistemology · History of religions · Modernization theory · Political science · Secularization · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Africa · Religion · Religion and science · Religious thought · Sociology of Knowledge
The culture-oriented bias of African philosophical inquiry
Africana Religious Studies
Religion and empire in the Axial Age
An “axial” work
Prediction and feedback may constrain but do not stop anthropomorphism
Fundamental social motives and the varieties of religious experience
Religion without Belief and Community in Africa
Anthropology of Religion
Fieldworking’ Deliverance Rituals in a Liberian Pentecostal Ministry
The varieties of Sioux Christianity, 1860–1980, in international perspective
Themes in Spirit Possession in Ugandan Christianity
One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had
Method for Theory
Why the Pervasive Addiction Myth is Still Believed
Kulturowa (nie)przetłumaczalność emocji w języku — na przykładzie emocji negatywnych
Ritual Closure
The Cultural Evolution of Epistemic Practices
All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious
A religião se faz com a colheita da terra
The concept of body in religious studies
Mystics against the Market
An exploration into the encounter between Indigenous and Western education at Noonkodin School in Eluwai, Monduli, Tanzania
Where biomedicalisation and magic meet
Commentary from the flower garden
Transforming the African philosophical place through conversations
Medical doctors’ attitudes and beliefs about diet and health are more like those of their lay countrymen (France, Germany, Italy, UK and USA) than those of doctors in other countries
Os azande e nós
Defining ?science? in a multicultural world
Basic beliefs and Christian faith
The Travels and Translations of Three African Anglican Missionaries, 1890–1930
Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans
New World African Ritual
The Coexistence Problem in Psychology, Anthropology, and Evolutionary Theory
Getting Scientists and Ethnomusicologists to Work Together
Toward a Critical Hauntology
It's your family that kills you
The Sacred, the Occult and the Distinctiveness of Religion
Narrative and Community in Dark Age Greece
Faith in the past
Africa Since 1940
Religion As Anthropomorphism at Çatalhöyük
Bibliographie
Sensible Animism
Making Magic
Magic and Migration among the Jornada Mogollon
Becoming African and the Death of Ikemefuna
Deconstructing the Laws of Logic
Farming God’s Way
Comparative History as World History
Outside All Reason
Jung and Lévy-Bruhl
Religion and Cognition
Has social science been a religion? The dilemma of sociological analysis of religion
Science demands explanation, religion tolerates mystery
Dangerous Adventures
Introduction
El neoanimismo y sus límites. Lectura crítica sobre el origen antropológico de la religiosidad de Gonzalo Puente Ojea
The return of the positivist theory of religion
Definitional ceremonies in Igbo Religion
Wipe the Blackboard Clean
Some Observations about Philosophy, Postmodernism and Art in Contemporary African Studies
Disguising chiefs and God as history
African conversion from a world religion
Decentralization as a Solution to the Problem of Cultured Diversity
Historicity and pluralism in some recent studies of Yoruba religion
Does God Requite in History? Comments on a Theme in World Christianity
Of Gods and Devils
Religion, Cognition, and the Myth of Conscious Will
Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems
W cieniu europejskiej twierdzy. Obraz Zachodu wśród Afrykanów w Gwinei Bissau
“God is in Control”
Samuel Delany writes difference
Feeling Through the Body
Ethnoarchaeological and Historical Methods
Religion and Science
The Epistemic Charity of the Social Constructivist Critics of Science and Why the Third World Should Refuse the Offer Meera Nanda
Rebirth
The Scientific Construction of the Other
World Christianity and Indigenous Experience
Radical Interpretation in Religion
Theological Incorrectness
Priests, Witches and Power
O nativo relativo
African Christian Scholars and the Study of African Traditional Religions
Towards a Natural History of Religion
Towards the concerned study of religion
Postmodern Disseminations and Cognitive Constraints
Schmaus’s Functionalist Approach to the Explanation of Social Facts
Religion
Christ is the Answer
Aux racines de la « bonne sociologie
When Rituals Fail
The Visible Church
Sobre a descolonização e seus correlatos
Analytical sociology” and the explanation of beliefs
Remembering Christ's death or the promise of salvation
Three Eyes for the Journey
Antropolojik “bilimselciliğin” sorunlarının keşfedildiği bir yolculuk
Indigenous Knowledge' and 'Science
Religion, Symbolist versus Intellectualist Approaches to
| Unique citing works | 139 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,19 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 127 |