Specifications
| Publisher | Shikanda Press: Papers in Intercultural Philosophy; Standard Edition |
| ISBN 13 | 9789078382195 |
| ISBN 10 | 9078382198 |
| Author | Wim van Binsbergen |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | 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. |
| Publication Date | 7 June 2021 |
| Number of Pages | 484 pages |
Sangoma Science: From ethnography to intercultural ontology: A poetics of African spiritualities
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