Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file PDF |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Series |
Studies of religion in Africa,
0169-9814 ;
volume 44
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Studies on religion in Africa ; 44.
0169-9814
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Bourdieu in Africa: Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields offers a view of religions as social games played by interested actors. Analyzing practices as strategic moves, this critical approach conceptualizes the religious field as relations of exchange and competition between experts and laity, and explores how the actors¿́¿ habitus, including religious beliefs, serve to misrecognize and thus legitimize relations of power within the religious sphere and beyond. The authors discuss the volatile religious fields of Nigeria, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and South Africa, with their variably configured tensions between African traditions, Christianity and Islam, but also consider the interrelations of religion with other social fields, with politics, economy, education and law. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
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Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002. |
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Christianity -- Africa.
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Christianity. |
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Africa. |
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Islam -- Africa.
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Islam. |
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Religion and sociology -- Africa.
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Religion and sociology. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Echtler, Magnus, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bourdieu in Africa 9789004303065 (DLC) 2015035044 (OCoLC)921240416 |
ISBN |
9789004307568 (electronic book) |
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9004307567 (electronic book) |
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9004303065 |
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9789004303065 |
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9789004303065 |
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9004303065 |
Standard No. |
9789004303065 |
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10.1163/9789004307568 |
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