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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Main Author: Harvey, Marcus (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2015]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 397-441
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Akan / World view / Gods / Relationship / Knowledge / Meaning
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
BB Indigenous religions
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NBC Doctrine of God
NBH Angelology; demonology
RC Liturgy
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