Description: Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism : The Politics of Religious Synthesis, Hardcover by Stewart, Charles (EDT); Shaw, Rosalind (EDT); European Association of Social Anthropologists (COR), ISBN 0415111161, ISBN-13 9780415111164, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism : The Politics of Religious Synthesis
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism : the Politics of Religious Synthesis
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Anthropology / General, Philosophy
Publication Year: 1994
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Rosalind Shaw
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists Ser.
Format: Hardcover
