Reinventing Religions - Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers - Contributions by Mundicarmo M. R. Ferretti; Sergio F. Ferretti; Morton Klass; Roberto Motta; Frank A. Salamone; Inger Sjørslev; Ineke van Wetering and Werner Zips Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Once a central concept in anthropology! syncretism has re-emerged as a tool for understanding the dynamics of ethnicity! postcolonialism and transnationalism. This text formulates a view of the mixing and interpenetration of religious beliefs and practices! primarily from Africa and Europe.

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• Authors: Andrz Droogers, Sidney M. Droogers Greenfield
• Assisted by: Andre Droogers (Editor), André Droogers (Editor), Andrew Droogers (Editor), Sidney M Greenfield (Editor), Sidney M. Greenfield (Editor), Greenfield Sidney M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2001
• EAN: 9780847688524
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8852-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, RELIGION / General, Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Cuba, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Religion & beliefs, West Africa, Religion and beliefs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity