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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.

Schoffeleers, J. M.

Series:

Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden

Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Religion--Addressess, essays, lectures.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

x, 389 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Boston : Kegan Paul International, [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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0710300492 :

OCLC:

10799161