Reinventing Religions Reinventing Religions

Reinventing Religions

Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas

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Beschreibung des Verlags

Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re-emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Building on a century-long tradition of scholarship, this important book formulates a broader view of the mixing and interpenetration of religious beliefs and practices, primarily from Africa and Europe, highlighting the ways in which religions and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic have been assimilated and innovatively changed. Divided into four sections, the book focuses on religious syncretism in Brazil, Jamaica, and other parts of the Caribbean and West Africa. Greenfield and Droogers have brought together an array of outstanding international scholars whose rich and varied essays on specific geographical locales and customs comprise an innovative and comprehensive view of the transference of religious traditions and their continuity and reformulation on two continents.

GENRE
Sachbücher
ERSCHIENEN
2001
14. Februar
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
232
Seiten
VERLAG
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
GRÖSSE
2,7
 MB

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