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

Contributor(s): Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van | Schoffeleers, J. M
Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden: Publisher: London ; Boston : KPI, 1985Description: x, 389 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0710300492 (U.S.) :Subject(s): Africa, Sub-Saharan -- ReligionDDC classification: 291/.0967 LOC classification: BL2462.5 | .T48 1985Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
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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