On the Non-worshipping Character of the Akan of Africa.
According to Wiredu, the Akan profess secular esteem rather than religious worship to supra-natural beings (including the Supreme Being), who they perceive in an empirical sense. He backs this up by re-reading what he sees as the Akan general ontology in a way that denies them of the concepts of the...
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 225 - 239 |
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