African religion permeates every department of life and cannot be isolated
Evidence
Africans are notoriously religious, and each people has its own religious system with a set of beliefs and practices. Religion permeates into all the departments of life so fully, that it is not easy or possible always to isolate it. A study of these religious systems is, therefore, ultimately a study of the peoples themselves in all the complexities of both traditional and modern life. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 260
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- African philosophy’s central problem is the relationship between man, the world, and God. (similarity 0.89)
- African religion answers ancestors’ concrete existential questions. (similarity 0.88)
- African philosophy reduces to the relation between man, world and God (similarity 0.88)
- Africans’ religious nature is affirmed by religionists and disputed by empiricists (similarity 0.86)
- African ontology is fundamentally religious with no sacred-secular divide (similarity 0.85)
- African religiousness centers on communal dialogue with God rather than individual theology (similarity 0.84)
- African thought defines the human person as a relation to others, world, and God. (similarity 0.84)
- Life, man, and God are preconceptual and transcultural realities in African thought. (similarity 0.84)
- African religion extends beyond faith into therapy and social identity. (similarity 0.84)
- All-pervasive religion makes isolating the secular nearly impossible (similarity 0.83)
- Treating religion as mere doctrinal faith misses its social and therapeutic functions (similarity 0.82)
- Proper African living is striving toward ever greater likeness to God (similarity 0.81)
- African monotheism is communal and expressed through dialogue, not theology (similarity 0.81)
- African philosophy is both universal inquiry and continentally rooted cultural reflection (similarity 0.81)
- Tempels holds that the desire for plenitude of life structures all African religion (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- African thought defines the human person as a relation to others, world, and God.
#expands(0.60) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 306 - Vital force makes African civilisation a culture of relations with nature and the divine
#expands(0.55) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 328 - Life, man, and God are preconceptual and transcultural realities in African thought.
#expands(0.50) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 303 - African philosophy’s central problem is the relationship between man, the world, and God.
#expands(0.40) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 304