Africa on Our Minds

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ID20039970
AuthorsRussell T Mccutcheon (0009-0008-7590-9370, corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages229-237
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAfrican Diaspora and the Study of Religion (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230609938_13
OpenAlexW2471816066
ISBN9780230609938
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

The study of religion's relationship to its colonial past offers a useful and complicated case study in how methodological self-consciousness actually impacts scholarship in the field of religious studies. And of all the sites from which one could draw to find ethnographic instances useful in pressing such issues, the continent of Africa—conceived either as an actual place or, far more interestingly, as a discursive space to which people can travel only in their imaginations—stands out. For, along with what was once called "New Holland" (or Australia) and "the New World" (or the Americas), "the dark continent" was a place to which our scholarly armchair predecessors imaginatively traveled as they poured over the diaries and reports of missionaries, traders, and soldiers in search of both their own evolutionary precursors as well as the origin of religion itself.KeywordsColonial PastDiscursive SpaceComparative ReligionEuropean WorldDark ContinentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics) · Linguistics · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development

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