This week’s slidesHAP 03 — Philosophy and Religion
Read with the three histories in view. For each reading ask: what is the fact and its evidence (History 1); what theory turns the evidence into support (History 2); what conception had to be in place for the question to arise at all (History 3).
Readings
- Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy. Vintage, 2010.
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá (2021). “The Sacred and the Profane: Wisdom and the Practice of Healing in Òrìṣà Culture.” OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society 11(2): 1–26.
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá (2001). “Spirituality and Applied Ethics: An African Perspective.” West Africa Review 3(1): 1–29.
- Whose Baby? The Judgment of Solomon.
Further reading
- Abimbola, W. (1984). “The Notion of Sacrifice in Yoruba Religion.” In D. W. Fern (ed.), Restoring the Kingdom. New York: Paragon.
- Buckley, A. Yoruba Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1985. (pp. 12–24) no online copy — read instead Sofowora, Ogunbodede & Onayade, “The Role and Place of Medicinal Plants in the Strategies for Disease Prevention” (2013, open access) together with Abímbọ́lá’s “Sacred and the Profane” above.
- Gbadegesin, S. (1991). African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities. Peter Lang. (pp. 105–136) no online copy — read instead Abímbọ́lá, Wándé, “The Yoruba Concept of Human Personality” (1973), which covers the same ground on orí, destiny and the person.