商品簡介
Comprises 17 contributions on African and African-derived religions and how they display themselves in the contemporary world, particularly the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The focus of many of the contributions is the continued dynamism of these religions and their relationship with other religious traditions, often labeled as syncretism. Representative topics include non-African spiritual entities in Afro-Brazilian religion and Afro-Amerindian syncretism; a psycho-cultural investigation of the meaning-making system of an African-Brazilian Macumba community in Salvador, Brazil; contested rituals of the African diaspora; religion, patriarchy, and the status of Rastafarian women; the African diaspora in the Netherlands; and the exorcistic- therapeutic cult of Emmanuel Milingo. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
PETER B. CLARKE is Professor of History and Sociology of Religion at King's College at the University of London. He is the founding and present editor of theJournal of Contemporary Religion and has written and edited several books on African history and religions.
