Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
28. What moral responsibilities do scholars and students have in studying Indigenous religions?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Afe Adogame [+]
Princeton Theological Seminary
Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. His research focuses on interrogating new dynamics of religious experiences and expressions in Africa and the African diaspora. Relevant book publications include: Alternative Voices: A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies (2013); African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies (2013). He is co-editor of the Routledge series Vitality of Indigenous Religions; Editor in Chief, AASR E-journal of Religion in Africa and Its Diaspora; and Deputy Editor, Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill).
Description
The historiography of the academic study of and approach to Indigenous religions has deep imprints in European colonialism and the formation of western modernity and coloniality. This approach, way of knowing and methodology contributes to the (mis)understanding of indigenous religions, in a way that calls for the decolonizing and re-institutionalizing of Indigenous religions as an important academic and cultural field of study