Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West
Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4741985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brad Wei, BRAD WEISS (0000-0002-3795-0064) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Publication date | 1996-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science, Robin Horton, 1993 |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1581895 |
| OpenAlex | W2024610923 |
| Language | EN |
Introduction Part I. Beginnings: l. A definition of religion, and its uses Part II. Mainly Critical: 2. Neo-Tylorianism: sound sense or sinister prejudice? 3. Levy-Bruhl, Durkheim and the scientific revolution 4. Back to Frazer? 5. Professor Winch on safari 6. Judaeo-Christian spectacles: boon or bane to the study of African religions? Part III. Mainly Constructive: 7. African traditional thought and Western science 8. Paradox and explanation: a reply to Mr Skorupski 9. Tradition and modernity revisited Postscript
Anthropology of religion · Epistemology · History of religions · MAGIC (telescope) · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
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
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
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
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
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
Becoming African and the Death of Ikemefuna
Deconstructing the Laws of Logic
Farming God’s Way
Comparative History as World History
Has social science been a religion? The dilemma of sociological analysis of religion
Science demands explanation, religion tolerates mystery
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
Historicity and pluralism in some recent studies of Yoruba religion
Ethnoarchaeological and Historical Methods
World Christianity and Indigenous Experience
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
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |