Sangoma Science - From ethnography to intercultural ontology: A poetics of African spiritualities

Black Thought Matters. This is the cult book for the 2020s! Starting out as a poet, the author became an anthropologist of African religion, then an adopted African prince, then a practising African diviner / healer (sangoma), then a professor of intercultural philosophy. The book testifies to the unique knowledge, authority and wisdom thus accumulated. In a passionate and deeply personal way, the author traces his steps over half a century and across most continents; critically discusses theory, method, and tacit presuppositions, of religious anthropology and of the philosophy of science; shows how close the African life world is to the New Physics; and presents an ontology according to which reality constantly oscillates between Being and Non-Being. Thus this book accounts for religion, God, evolution, thought, time, the paranormal, the world-creating nature of science, and the time-warping / event-creating potential of divination. The argument is set against the background of the integrated long-range perspective on global cultural history, which the writer has helped develop over the past decades.

Product details

• Authors: Wim Van Binsbergen
• Publisher: Shikanda Press: Papers in Intercultural Philosophy
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2021
• EAN: 9789078382195
• ISBN: 978-90-78382-19-5
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 620 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works