Syncretism/anti-syncretism : the politics of religious synthesis
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Syncretism/anti-syncretism : the politics of religious synthesis
（European Association of Social Anthropologists）
Routledge, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Contributors: Mariane Ferme, University of California, Berkeley
- David Guss, Harvard University
- Wolfgang Kempf, University of TUEbingen
- 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
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