Speaking to the Ancestors. Religion as Interlocutory Interaction

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ID3640246
AuthorsMichael L Singleton (0000-0002-4018-9595, corresponding author), Michael Singleton (0000-0002-6065-1521)
Year2009
Volume104
Issue2
Pages311-332
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0257-9774
PublisherNomos Verlag (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5771/0257-9774-2009-2-311
OpenAlexW1689637694
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Material from an indigenous manuscript, combined with fieldwork in Ubungu (Tanzania) and relating to what conventionally but questionably was styled "ancestor worship" could, less ethnocentrically and keeping closer to the empirical evidence, be more satisfactorily described as "speaking to the ancestors." Extrapolating from this case study, much of what still goes in Western circles, academic and otherwise, as "Primitive Religion," could be more credibly considered as interlocutory interaction

Interlocutory · Political science · Sociology · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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