Peter Clarke

New Trends and Developments in African Religions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

African religions, as well as those religions that derive much of their cosmology, beliefs, and rituals from African religions, are becoming more international in scope and appeal. Yet they continue to be viewed either as indiscriminately adaptable or as static traditions. Neither view suggests much spiritual or psychological value outside their original milieu when compared with the so-called world religions. The chapters in this volume focus on African and African-derived religions, and challenge many of these positions. They examine how these religions display themselves in the contemporary world, particularly in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. These religions' continued dynamism and their relationship with other religious traditions, especially through the process of syncretism, are also explored. This multidisciplinary collection makes a major contribution not only to a better understanding of African and African-derived religions, but it also contributes to the wider and ongoing debate on syncretism that continues to engage those in anthropology, history, and sociology of religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780313301285
• ISBN-10: 031330128X
• Artikelnr.: 21156260

Autorenporträt

Peter lives with his young family in North West London. Having always enjoyed writing as a pastime, it was after having children that he found his source of inspiration. Through watching them grow and explore the world around them, the protagonist Jee was born and adventures very close to home ensued.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Peter B. Clarke Recasting Syncretism.Again: Theories and
Concepts in Anthropology and Afro-American Studies in the Light of Changing
Social Agendas by Sidney M. Greenfield Accounting for Recent
Anti-Syncretist Trends in Candomblé-Catholic Relations by Peter B. Clarke
Non-African Spiritual Entities in Afro-Brazilian Religion and
Afro-Amerindian Syncretism by Mundicarmo R. Ferretti The Churchifying of
Candomblé: Priests, Anthropologists and the Canonization of the African
Religious Memory in Brazil by Roberto Motta With Dance and Drum: A
Psycho-Cultural Investigation of the Meaning-Making System of an
African-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil by Valerie de
Marinis Umbanda and Its Clientele by Tina Gundrun Jensen The Shakers of St.
Vincent: A Symbolic Focus for Discourses by Charles J. Gullick Contested
Rituals of the African Diaspora by Stephen D. Glazier From Mimesis to
Appropriation in Shouter Baptism and Shango: The Earth People of Trinidad
by Roland Littlewood Religion, Patriarchy, and the Status of Rastafarian
Women by Obiagele Lake Rastafari Perceptions of Self and Symbolism by
William R. Van de Berg The Nation of Islam by Michael Taylor Santería and
Curanderismo in Los Angeles by Brian McGuire and Duncan Scrymgeour Some
Thoughts on Syncretism in Suriname Creole Migrant Culture, as Reproduced by
Migrant Women in the Netherlands by Inelle Van Wetering The African
Diaspora in the Netherlands by Gerrie Ter Haar From Africa into Italy: The
Exorcistic-Therapeutic Cult of Emmanuel Milingo by Vittorio Lanternari
Pseudo-Conversion and African Independent Churches by Victor Wan-Tatah
Select Bibliography Index