New trends and developments in African religions
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New trends and developments in African religions
（Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 186）
Greenwood Press, 1998
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Candomble-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 Candomble: 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 Santeria 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
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