Beyond Ujamaa: African Religion and Societal Evil

Frans Wijsen

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Beyond Ujamaa: African Religion and Societal Evil

于Coping with Evil in Religion and Culture

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Page Range:: 169–184

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205375_012

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In our present globalized world, people in large areas of Africa still lack sus-tainable incomes, and suffer from low life expectancy and exploding poverty. There are heated debates between European and African scholars, and among Africans themselves on the causes of these conditions. The dominant trend in these debates is to blame the West for all past and present evils in Africa: slavery, colonialism, and neo-liberalism. As a solution to the continent's problems, various African scholars advocate beginning an African Renaissance by returning to the traditional African community spirit, called ubuntu in South Africa or ujamaa in Tanzania. Whether this elusive African spirit is still present and if it ever existed at all—or if it is inherently peaceful, as its advocates suggest—is unclear. In Africa, communities are not only social but spiritual realities as well, creating a strong sense of unity. The flipside of this worldview is that it can lead to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, the suppression of individual freedom and of industrious creativity. This paper weighs the good and bad sides of the possible rehabilitation of African religions.

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Coping with Evil in Religion and Culture

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丛编： Currents of Encounter, 卷： 35and Currents of Encounter Online, 卷： 35

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ISBN:: 9789401205375

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 01 Jan 2008

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