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Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
Contributors:
By (Author) J. W. Fernandez
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
8th April 2019
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Dewey:
299.67
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
800
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
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 gr
