Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Religious Synthesis
Redaktion: Shaw, Rosalind; Stewart, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

Syncretism, refers to the mixing of different religious traditions whether as active, ongoing process or as historical fact. In the present era of displacement, migration and generally increasing "cultural compression" syncretism is very much a current event. But syncretism does not just happen because religions have similarities and cross over into one another. It occurs in social conditions characterized by unequal power and it is sometimes directed by the interests and agency of prominent individuals. Contributors to this volume explore not only how syncretism occurs, but how the very idea of religious mixture is accepted or contested in ten different societies. Topics covered include multiculturalism in India, Japanese "new religions," the translation of the Bible in Ghana, the Christian interpretation of circumcision in Papua New Guinea and Turkish migrants' efforts to remain Muslims in Germany.
Whether syncretism is a good or a bad thing is a disputed matter. Anti-syncretism can arise in situations of multiculturalism where a group attempts to preserve its integrity by guarding against foreign influences. In situations of ethnic revival groups are liable to deconstruct their own traditions and extirpate elements considered to be foreign or borrowed.
Dispensing with objectivist and historicist attempts to decide what is syncretic, the contributors to this volume use their anthropological expertise and experience to present local understandings and debates about what is mixed, what is pure, and which is most "authentic."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134833955
• Artikelnr.: 42976576

Autorenporträt

Charles Stewart, Rosalind Shaw

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors: Mariane Ferme
University of California
Berkeley; David Guss
Harvard University; Wolfgang Kempf
University of TÜbingen; Jim Kiernan
University of Natal
South Africa; Klaus-Peter Koepping
University of Heidelberg
Birgit Meyer
Amsterdam School for Social Research; David Mosse
University of Wales; Rosalind Shaw
Tufts University
USA; Charles Stewart
University College London; Peter van der Veer
University of Amsterdam; Richard Werbner
University of Manchester; Lale Yalsin-Heckmann
University of Bamberg