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SANGOMA SCIENCE IBD

SHIKANDA PRESS: PAPERS IN INTE
06 / 2021
9789078382195
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Sinopsis

Black Thought Matters. This is the cult book for the 2020s! Starting out as a poet, the author became an anthropologist of African religion, then an adopted African prince, then a practising African diviner / healer (sangoma), then a professor of intercultural philosophy. The book testifies to the unique knowledge, authority and wisdom thus accumulated. In a passionate and deeply personal way, the author traces his steps over half a century and across most continents, critically discusses theory, method, and tacit presuppositions, of religious anthropology and of the philosophy of science, shows how close the African life world is to the New Physics, and presents an ontology according to which reality constantly oscillates between Being and Non-Being. Thus this book accounts for religion, God, evolution, thought, time, the paranormal, the world-creating nature of science, and the time-warping / event-creating potential of divination. The argument is set against the background of the integrated long-range perspective on global cultural history, which the writer has helped develop over the past decades.

PVP
111,97