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The politics of religious change on the Upper Guinea Coast : Iconoclasm done and undone / Ramon Sarro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarró, Ramon.
- Series:
- International African library ; 38.
- International African library ; 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iconoclasm--Guinea.
- Iconoclasm.
- Guinea--Religion.
- Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particular
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Maps and Photographs; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Glossary; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5300-7
- 1-282-05905-X
- 9786612059056
- 0-7486-3666-8
- OCLC:
- 437107540
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