Misleading Terms
Dr Joseph Omosade Awolalu points out that a great number of writers use misleading terms such as primitive, savage and pagan to describe African religious beliefs. The terms witch and witchcraft should also not be used to describe traditional African religion in general.
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Famous quotes containing the words misleading and/or terms:
“For this reason I think it might be better to use, for this way of doing philosophy, some less misleading name than those given above—for instance, ‘linguistic phenomenology,’ only that is rather a mouthful.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)
“As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notions which we form from the comparison of things with one another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him who mourns; for him who is deaf, it is neither good nor bad.”
—Baruch (Benedict)