Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism : The Politics of Religious Synthesis
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
European Association of Social Anthropologists
ISBN-10
0415111161
ISBN-13
9780415111164
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 6th, 1994
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
318 grams
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Cultural studiesAnthropology
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The contributors explore the issues of agency and power which motivate the conflicting discourses surrounding syncretism, that is the mixing of different religious traditions within a culture.
Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions'' which are deemed `inauthentic'' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official'' (read `European'') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistance to colonial hegemony, a sign of cultural survival, or as a means of authorising political dominance in a multicultural state.
In Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism the contributors explore the issues of agency and power which are integral to the very process of syncretism and to the competing discourses surrounding the term.
In Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism the contributors explore the issues of agency and power which are integral to the very process of syncretism and to the competing discourses surrounding the term.
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