Medial Deities and Relational Meanings: Tracing Elements of an Akan Grammar of Knowing
To date, few phenomenological studies analyze African religions at the level of epistemology. This essay engages in such an analysis with a focus on the cosmological tradition associated with the Akan of southern Ghana. I argue that medial Akan deities can be understood as constitutive elements of a...
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2015]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 397-441 |
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Akan
/ World view
/ Gods
/ Relationship
/ Knowledge
/ Meaning
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