Reinventing Religions

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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: A Symposium Chapter 2 Recovering and Reconstructing Syncretism Chapter 3 A Yoruba Healer as Syncretic Specialist: Herbalism, Rosicrucianism, and the Babalawo Chapter 4 Population Growth, Industrialization, and the Proliferation of Syncretized Religions in Brazil Chapter 5 Ethnicity, Purity, the Market, and Syncretism in Afro-Brazilian Cults Chapter 6 Religious Syncretism in an Afro-Brazilian Cult House Chapter 7 The Presence of Non-African Spirits in an Afro-Brazilian Religion: A Case of Afro-American Syncretism Chapter 8 The Reinterpretation of Africa: Convergence and Syncretism in Brazilian Condomblé Chapter 9 Possession and Syncretism: Spirits as Mediators in Modernity Chapter 10 Joana's Story: Syncretism at the Actor's Level Chapter 11 Ragga Cowboys: Country and Western Themes in Rastafarian-Inspired Music Chapter 12 Polyvocality and Constructions of Syncretism in Winti Chapter 13 Seeking Syncretism: The Case of Sathya Sai Baba Chapter 14 Contributors...

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• Authors: Andre Droogers, Andrz Droogers, Sidney Greenfield, Sidney M. Greenfield
• Assisted by: Andre Droogers (Editor), André Droogers (Editor), Andrew Droogers (Editor), Sidney Greenfield (Editor), Sidney M Greenfield (Editor), Sidney M. Greenfield (Editor), Greenfield Sidney M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2001
• EAN: 9780847688531
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8853-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; 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