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Accepted Paper:
introduction to sociomony and African untonomics
Charles Nnaji
(University of Abuja)
Paper short abstract:
Socionomy simply means that human societies can exist without religion. This which is the true meaning of sociology and it conflicts with african untonomics which says that africans are not interested in arguing the existence of God, rather africans already believe that God exist.
Paper long abstract:
Untonomics points to the total theistic nature of african philosophy.African Philosophy of religion necessarily does not follow Platonic and Aristotelian logical debates on God,rather it seeks to unravel the mysteries behind an already existing God including the role of this God in human existence,since african metaphysics strongly believes that the spiritual controls the physical.This untonomic view of the theistic nature of african philosophy seriously conflicts with socionomy,especially the socionomic argument that african religious mentality hinders the development of human intelligence. the point being that highly religious societies often suffer mental and intellectual stagnation due to high level religious mentality that hinders scientific reasoning,industrial development and technological advancement.
Panel
P016
Religion, secularism and developmentalism: interrogating contemporary African philosophy of religion
Session 1