Theoretical explorations in African religion / edited by Wim van Binsbergen and Matthew Schoffeleers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs from the African Studies Centre, LeidenPublication details: London ; Boston : KPI, 1985.Description: x, 389 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0710300492 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.6 T343e
LOC classification:
  • BL2462.5 .T48 1985
Contents:
Theoretical explorations in African religion / Wim van Binsbergen and Matthew Schoffeleers -- Perspectives on divination in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa / Renaat Devisch -- Towards a semantic approach to the principle of transformation / Wauthier de Mahieu -- From waste-making to recycling / André Droogers -- Religious pluralism / Johannes Fabian -- Oral history and the retrieval of the distant past / Matthew Schoffeleers -- The historical interpretation of myth in the context of popular Islam / Wim van Binsbergen -- The consequences of literacy in African religion / John M. Janzen -- The argument of images / Richard P. Werbner -- Religious studies and political economy / Terence O. Ranger -- Dini ya Msambwa / Robert Buijtenhuijs -- Prophets of God or of history? / Christian Coulon.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Theoretical explorations in African religion / Wim van Binsbergen and Matthew Schoffeleers -- Perspectives on divination in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa / Renaat Devisch -- Towards a semantic approach to the principle of transformation / Wauthier de Mahieu -- From waste-making to recycling / André Droogers -- Religious pluralism / Johannes Fabian -- Oral history and the retrieval of the distant past / Matthew Schoffeleers -- The historical interpretation of myth in the context of popular Islam / Wim van Binsbergen -- The consequences of literacy in African religion / John M. Janzen -- The argument of images / Richard P. Werbner -- Religious studies and political economy / Terence O. Ranger -- Dini ya Msambwa / Robert Buijtenhuijs -- Prophets of God or of history? / Christian Coulon.

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