Decolonising African Divine Episteme: A Critical Analysis of the Akan Divine Name of God (Twereduampon Kwame)
The goal of this paper is to decolonise Akan divine episteme from undue Euro-Christian influence. Since the 1920s, cultural anthropologists have argued that the Akan concept of Twereduampon Kwame is because God either revealed himself to the Akan on a Saturday or the Akan worshipped God on that day....
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2022
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Journal of religion in Africa
Année: 2022, Volume: 52, Numéro: 3/4, Pages: 269-291 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Akan
/ Religion
/ Name of God
/ Naming
/ Knowledge production
/ Postcolonialism
/ African Theology
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse AX Dialogue interreligieux BS Religions traditionnelles africaines CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses KBN Afrique subsaharienne NBC Dieu |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Decolonisation
B Kwame B Akan B Twereduampon B Saturday |
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| Résumé: | The goal of this paper is to decolonise Akan divine episteme from undue Euro-Christian influence. Since the 1920s, cultural anthropologists have argued that the Akan concept of Twereduampon Kwame is because God either revealed himself to the Akan on a Saturday or the Akan worshipped God on that day. Employing in-depth interviews and a secondary data research approach that incorporates analysis of extant literature, I challenge this assumption by arguing that the name of God as Twereduampon Kwame is based on the significance of day names. This is because the name intermeshes with the enigma of death and God’s positionality as the source of the answer to the disruption caused by death. Contrary to the assumption of revelation or Sabbath observance in the Akan religion, the name Twereduampon Kwame points to God’s appellation as the greatest herbalist. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0666 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340231 |