Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /
The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contribut...
مؤلفون آخرون:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
سلاسل:
Studies of Religion in Africa
33.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004223080.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: BL2565 .A36 2008
| الملخص: | The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contributors to this volume seek to transcend this research agenda by bracketing "Africa" and "African pasts" as objective givens, and asking instead what role notions of "Africanity" and "pastfulness" play in the social and ritual lives of historical and contemporary practitioners of Afro-Atlantic religious formations. The volume's goal is to open up contextually salient claims to "African origins" to empirical scrutiny, and so contribute to a broadening of the terms of debate in Afro-Atlantic studies. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9789047432708 |
| وصول: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |