Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa Contributor(s): Fernandez, James W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691655235 ISBN-13: 9780691655239 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $145.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Ethnic & Tribal - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
Dewey: 299.67 |
Physical Information: 1.57" H x 7" W x 10" (2.96 lbs) 800 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 into a compelling religious universe, an equatorial microcosm. |