Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis (European Association of Social Anthropologists) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415111161 ISBN 13: 9780415111164

Verlag: Routledge, 1994

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Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistance to colonial hegemony, a sign of cultural survival, or as a means of authorising political dominance in a multicultural state.
In Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism the contributors explore the issues of agency and power which are integral to the very process of syncretism and to the competing discourses surrounding the term.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415111161
• ISBN 13: 9780415111164
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
• Herausgeber: Shaw Rosalind, Stewart Charles