‘The True and Scientific Religion’: A Christian Adaptation of Esotericism and Rejection of Materialism in Late Nineteenth-Century West Africa
A scientific worldview is taken to be a dominant factor of European secularity but peculiarly absent in Africa. Taking cues from the multiple secularities and global religious history approaches, the article uses global entanglements as a critical analytical tool to investigate the formation of our...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2024, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 357-381 |
Further subjects: | B
Secularity
B West Africa B Religion B Science B Yoruba B History |
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