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Conference paper | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Theoretical explorations in African religion |
Editors: | Binsbergen, Wim van Schoffeleers, Matthew |
Chapter(s): | Present |
Year: | 1985 |
Pages: | 389 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Monographs from the African Studies Centre |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | Kegan Paul International (KPI) |
ISBN: | 0710300492 |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | 1979 religion conference papers (form) |
Abstract: | This collection of papers on theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of African religion is the outcome of a conference held at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, in 1979. It reviews the major classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to African religion. The individual papers deal with a variety of specific religions and locate them in their specific cultural, social and political context. These specific topics are used as stepping stones towards a converging theoretical perspective in which the various strands of contemporary religious research can be integrated. Contributors: Renaat Devisch (sub-Saharan Africa), Wauthier de Mahieu (Zaire), André Droogers (Africa), Johannes Fabian (sub-Saharan Africa), Matthew Schoffeleers (Malawi), Wim van Binsbergen (Tunisia), John M. Janzen (the Kongo tradition of coastal Equatorial Africa), Richard P. Werbner (Southern Africa), Terence O. Ranger (Zimbabwe), Robert Buijtenhuijs (Kenya), Christian Coulon (Senegal). |