Tempels internally struggled between Belgian, church, and Baluba commitments

Evidence

The views advanced by Neugebauer, Césaire, and Matolino are pertinent, but they do not see the inner struggle Tempels goes through. Tempels finds himself in the struggle to be allowed to approach the Baluba culture, with a total commitment, on conditions proper to that culture, regardless of the preconceived, externally imposed images and stipulations of his own society of origin (Belgium), its academic culture, the world of the missions and the church. It is this struggle between the various commitments unified inside Tempels, and his notion of the vital force, that I find so interesting. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 562

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth pursuing: how does the author’s sympathetic reading of Tempels’s ‘inner struggle’ hold up against the criticism that intent doesn’t excuse paternalistic output?
• XREF: connects to: Tempels was torn between loyalty to colonists and to the Baluba — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 460; Colonial and missionary authorities exiled Tempels to Belgium for his ideas. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 76; Tempels’s equality claims cost him his Congo mission post and drew dual criticism
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tempels was torn between loyalty to colonists and to the Baluba — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 460; Colonial and missionary authorities exiled Tempels to Belgium for his ideas. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 76; Tempels’s equality claims cost him his Congo mission post and drew dual criticism

Broader Connections

• Tempels was torn between loyalty to colonists and to the Baluba #expands (0.93) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 460