Tempels’s silence on women stems from his male, missionary, European patriarchal context

Evidence

Besides this limited aspect on women’s reproductive roles, Bantu Philosophy remains silent on other aspects of women’s roles in society. These silences can be attributed to the fact that Tempels was male, missionary and European, living in an age of worldwide patriarchy. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 957

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to the correction work by later African feminist philosophers on Tempels and to the figure-ground blind spot motif in the reader’s corpus.

Related

• Gender silence is the main gap in Tempels’s Bantu philosophy (similarity 0.88)
• Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy considered African women only in relation to childbearing (similarity 0.87)
• Tempels’s silence on women avoided replicating biased anthropological narratives (similarity 0.87)
• Tempels only framed African women as childbearers despite pre-colonial wise women leaders. (similarity 0.86)
• Judging Tempels fairly requires situating him in his historical context (similarity 0.81)
• Tempels denied Bantu consciousness of their own philosophy (similarity 0.80)
• Pre-colonial African ethos valued women as leaders across various fronts (similarity 0.80)
• African philosophy shows two waves of irrationality about women’s roles (similarity 0.79)
• Tempels framed his early missionary role as a colonial master ‘Boula Matari’. (similarity 0.79)
• Tempels urged missionaries to abandon European methodologies for African dialogue. (similarity 0.79)
• Tempels held that Bantu were unconscious of their own philosophy (similarity 0.79)
• Tempels’s missionary intent inverted into codifying Bantu philosophy (similarity 0.78)
• Tempels sought to understand Bantu thought only after missionary conversion failed (similarity 0.78)
• Tempels’s evangelization aim made him a philosopher of religion. (similarity 0.78)
• Tempels argued Bantu culture merits philosophical recognition partly through resemblance to Christian Europe (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy considered African women only in relation to childbearing #expands (0.70) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1012
• Tempels’s institutional position as a Franciscan made open defiance of the church impossible #corroborates (0.50) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 146