By Ramon Sarró
Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology. The Politics of non secular switch at the higher Guinea Coast deals an in-depth research of an iconoclastic spiritual circulation initiated by way of a Muslim preacher between coastal Baga farmers within the French colonial interval. With an ethnographic method that listens as conscientiously to people who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those that desired to 'get rid of custom', this paintings discusses the level to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of spiritual wisdom and id, and analyses its relevance within the making of recent countries and citizens.The e-book will entice a variety of readers, quite people with an curiosity within the anthropology of faith, iconoclasm, the background and anthropology of West Africa, or the politics of heritage.* This publication examines the historic complexity of the interface among Islam, culture religions and Christianity in west Africa, and the way this interface hyperlinks with dramatic political adjustments* It provides a close ethnographic technique by which such complicated heritage is unveiled and analysed* It offers a discussion among the sphere findings, a protracted culture of anthropology and the latest anthropological debates
Read or Download The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone (International African Library EUP) PDF
Similar Comparative Religion books
Why figuring out America's spiritual panorama Is crucial problem dealing with Us TodayThe Nineteen Nineties observed the U. S. army fee its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque. There are almost immediately greater than 300 temples in la, domestic to the best number of Buddhists on the planet.
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion
A hugely unique and scholarly paintings on spirituality through famous historian Mircea Eliade In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that whereas modern humans think their international is completely profane, or secular, they nonetheless now and then locate themselves hooked up unconsciously to the reminiscence of anything sacred.
Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience
Experiences of African-derived non secular traditions have commonly occupied with their retention of African components. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways that groups within the African diaspora have created and shaped spiritual that means. during this fieldwork-based research Stewart indicates that African humans were brokers in their personal non secular, ritual, and theological formation.
Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue
The assaults of September eleven, 2001 immediately heightened the yankee public's sensitivity towards issues of spiritual distinction. Many american citizens discovered not just that non-Muslims have to research extra approximately Islam, but in addition that Muslims needs to higher comprehend and articulate their very own religion to themselves and others.
Extra info for The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone (International African Library EUP)