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Call for Papers
Theme: Religion and Philosophy in the African Context
Type: International Conference
Institution: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP)
University of the Western Cape
Location: Cape Town (South Africa)
Date: 8.–9.11.2012
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The life of religion or at least the protoreligious is as long as the
traces of humanity itself and through times has been shaped in
multiple religious forms: pharaonic, Christian, Islamic. This has
formed in depth the life of the multiple peoples of the continent,
their cultures and worldviews.
As its life becomes increasingly more complex and structured in
recent it becomes important for the peoples to engage the arts of
philosophy in order to have a more adequate self-understanding and
more effective and appropriate organization of economic, social and
political life. In particular it is important to be able to do this
in ways that do not impoverish but enrich the meaning and values of
the lives of the peoples.
Unfortunately much of the philosophy available from outside of Africa
is too individualistic or idealistic to be able to capture and
promote the full richness of the African sense of meaning and value.
This makes the task of developing a more adequate philosophy for
Africa and Africa’s gift to the world so exciting and promising. This
will be the challenge and opportunity of the present conference for
which the ability to make room for all of life, including Africa’s
religious traditions – natural religious, Christianity and Islam –
serve as bellwether.
Papers are invited on the following and other themes:
(1) relations of philosophy with culture and religion
(2) distinctive characteristics of religions in Africa: natural,
Christian, Islamic and other
(3) the evolution of African philosophy from oral tradition, to
logical argumentation to a hermeneutic of culture, etc.
(4) impact of individualism and liberal theory and Islam on the
African worldview and way of life (NB the title of the World
Congress in Athens 2013 is “Philosophy as Theory and Way of Life”)
(5) Contributions of Africa to the global dialogue of civilizations
Contact:
Professor Yasien Mohamed
Islamic Studies
University of the Western Cape
Cape Town
South Africa
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.crvp.org/conf/2012/capetown.htm
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