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Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa
V. Y. Mudimbe
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Description for Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa
Hardback. Series: Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; HRA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 527.
This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage.
This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474281386
SKU
V9781474281386
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About V. Y. Mudimbe
V. Y. Mudimbe is Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature at Duke University, USA.
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