Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
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We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to experience with missionary Christianity, Bwiti uses a great reservoir of images and ideas from its own past. Professor Fernandez analyszes how they are recreated...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691655235
ISBN13:9780691655239
Release Date:January 2019
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:800 Pages
Weight:2.96 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"
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