Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West

A collection of Robin Horton's classic papers on African religion (1960-1990), presenting a wide-ranging enquiry into religious thought.

Klappentext

A collection of Robin Horton's classic papers on African religion (1960 1990), presenting a wide-ranging enquiry into religious thought.

Zusammenfassung
Robin Horton's classic essays on African religion are also about human religious thought generally, and its relationship to scientific thought. His 'Intellectualist' approach, which criticises orthodoxies in the field, stresses the similarities between religious and scientific thought.

Inhalt

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.