Tales of Faith - Religion As Political Performance in Central Africa

Informationen zum Autor V. Y. Mudimbe is Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature at Duke University! USA. This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles in religious studies. Zusammenfassung This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme! emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre! it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. God’s Inflections – On the Politics of Interpretation 2. Erasing the Difference of Genesis 3. The Practice of Misunderstanding 4. Acculturation – An ‘Espace Métissé’ Epilogue Bibliography

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• Authors: V. Y. Mudimbe, V. Y. (Duke University Mudimbe
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474281386
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-8138-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Religious Studies: Bloomsbury; Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, Religion: general, Central Africa