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Overtly Muslim, Covertly Boni: Competing Calls of Religious Allegiance on the Kenyan Coast - Couverture souple

Faulkner, Mark R J

 
9789004147539: Overtly Muslim, Covertly Boni: Competing Calls of Religious Allegiance on the Kenyan Coast
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9004147535 ISBN 13 : 9789004147539
Editeur : Brill, 2006

Synopsis

This volume explores the way of life of the Boni community, a hunter-gatherer people that straddle the Kenya/Somali border in East Africa. The Boni converted to Islam some fifty years ago and the reasons for this, both internal and external to the community, are identified. The book argues that former indigenous religious activity, far from having died out, is now being renegotiated so as to reflect an evolving Boni self-identity in a multi-ethnic setting as well as allowing the fermentation of resistance in the face of attempts at cultural hegemony advanced by outside forces. Employing a phenomenological approach and a methodology based on participant observation, this volume identifies three contrasting spheres of religious activity - the bush, the village centre, and individual homesteads.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark R J Faulkner, Ph.D. (2001) in Religions of Africa, University of London, lectures in Religion in Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). He has lived and worked in Africa for more than fifteen years.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004147535
ISBN 13 
9789004147539
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
293
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Personne responsable
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