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Title: | Bwiti: an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa |
Author: | Fernandez, James W. |
Year: | 1982 |
Pages: | 731 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Princeton, NJ |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
Geographic term: | Gabon |
Subjects: | African Independent Churches African religions Fang |
External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.09253 |
Abstract: | Crucial to the understanding of the religious imagination, the author argues, is a knowledge of the historical, social and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, in part 1, he presents a detailed ethnographic account of Fang culture after colonial encounter. Part 2 analyses in greater detail the religious plications of European administration and missionary efforts. In part 3 the author shows how the malaise and increasing isolation of parts of Fang culture achieve some assuagement in the Bwiti religion, which recenters Fang experience and seeks a reconciliation of the past and present. |