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Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa
Contributors:
By (Author) V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:
6th October 2016
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
200.967
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
256
Dimensions:
Width 160mm, Height 236mm, Spine 18mm
Weight:
540g
Description
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.
Author Bio
V. Y. Mudimbe is Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature at Duke University, USA.
