Synopsis
Ellis and Ter Haar maintain that the specific content of religious thought has to be grasped if we are to appreciate the political significance of religion in Africa today, and this is what their book sets out to do. It also advances understanding of the relation between religion and political action in general.
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À propos de l?auteur
Stephen Ellis is director of the Africa Programme at the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Brussels, and a senior researcher at the African Studies Center, Leiden. He is the author of The Mask of Anarchy: the Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War (1999). Gerrie ter Haar is Professor of Religion, Human Rights and Social Change at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She is a specialist in the religious traditions of Africa. Among her numerous publications is Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe (1998).
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