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David Chidester - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Apartheid
    Religion, 2018
    Co-Authors: David Chidester
    Abstract:

    Apartheid was established in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 as a force of exclusion and incorporation, excluding people from citizenship and exploiting people as labor. This chapter suggests that the term apartheid, meaning “separation,” was formative for certain ways of thinking about Religion. One of the architects of apartheid, the anthropologist W. M. Eiselen, was a leading expert on indigenous Religions in South Africa. Eiselen’s writings on African Religion illustrate three overlapping types of Comparative Religion—a frontier Comparative Religion based on denial and containment; an imperial Comparative Religion assuming evolutionary progress from savagery to civilization; and an apartheid Comparative Religion creating and reinforcing boundaries to keep people apart. Although apartheid was formally established as a racist policy of separation in South Africa, the making and maintaining of boundaries has been a recurring feature of religious formations.

  • Thinking Black: Circulations of Africana Religion in Imperial Comparative Religion
    Journal of Africana Religions, 2013
    Co-Authors: David Chidester
    Abstract:

    Often invoked as providing the genealogy of the study of Religion, British imperial Comparative Religion entailed a triple mediation in which imperial theorists derived indigenous data through colonial middlemen. Focusing on the circulation of Africana Religions in this enterprise, I examine the work of three South African scholars—the Zulu philologist uNemo (1865–1953), the Tswana historian S. M. Molema (1891–1965), and the Zulu dramatist and student of anthropology H. I. E. Dhlomo (1903–1956)—who intervened in imperial Comparative Religion by reversing the flow in knowledge production. While uNemo unsettled F. Max Muller’s confidence in quoting colonial experts in South Africa, Molema and Dhlomo turned imperial theorists into informants for advancing their own intellectual projects in the historical and anthropological analysis of African Religion in South Africa. For the study of Africana Religions, this discussion highlights the dynamics of circulation in producing knowledge about Religion and Religions.

  • Anchoring Religion in the World: A Southern African History of Comparative Religion
    Religion, 1996
    Co-Authors: David Chidester
    Abstract:

    This essay focuses upon a single object, a shipwrecked anchor that was washed ashore on the eastern Cape coast of southern Africa. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, European travellers, missionaries, and magistrates cited this anchor as evidence of Religion among indigenous people in the region. By the end of the century, however, this same anchor was being used by metropolitan theorists as a classic piece of evidence for the origin of Religion. By recounting the strange story of this anchor, I hope to recover a history (or prehistory) of the study of Religion in three phases—frontier, imperial and apartheid—that have defined the practice of Comparative Religion from a southern African perspective.

  • savage systems colonialism and Comparative Religion in southern africa
    1996
    Co-Authors: David Chidester
    Abstract:

    This work examines the emergence of the concepts of Religion and Religions on 19th-century colonial frontiers. It analyzes the ways in which European settlers, and indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of alternative religious ways of life as one dimension of intercultural activity.

Robert Goss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • spiritual bonds to the dead in cross cultural and historical perspective Comparative Religion and modern grief
    Death Studies, 1999
    Co-Authors: Dennis Klass, Robert Goss
    Abstract:

    Contemporary spirituality within continuing bonds with the dead is placed into the Comparative context of Western Christianity and Japanese Buddhism. Throughout history, humans have maintained interaction with two kinds of dead: ancestors and sacred dead, the first characterized by symmetrical relationships and the second by asymmetrical. Continuing bonds are deeply connected with, and are often in conflict with, bonds to the nation and (in the West) to God. In this framework, the authors find that continuing bonds in the present function within the private sphere and have very limited functions within the larger society, resemble traditional bonds with the sacred dead, and, at this time, offer a mild critique of the values and lifestyles on which consumer capitalism is based.

Jeppe Sinding Jensen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

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