Relational Being as Icon or Communal Freedom: Southern Africa's Ubuntu

Beginning from the question "What is the self?" a range of applications of the African concept of ubuntu is shown to be an alternate model of person-in-relation to that of Western views. In its traditional form, ubuntu situated the individual person in a web of relations in which self and...

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Main Author: Breems, Brad (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Graduate School [2016]
In: Journal of sociology and Christianity
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 56-79
Further subjects:B Ubuntu
B Reification
B Individual
B Social Cohesion
B Reconciliation
B Mystification
B relational being
B Freedom
B Community
B Power
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