Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415111161 ISBN 13 : 9780415111164

Editeur : Routledge, 1994

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415111161
• ISBN 13: 9780415111164
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Shaw Rosalind, Stewart Charles