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Title Bourdieu in Africa : exploring the dynamics of religious fields / edited by Magnus Echtler (Universitat Bayreuth, Germany), Asonzeh Ukah (University of Cape Town, South Africa).

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Studies of religion in Africa, 0169-9814 ; volume 44
Studies on religion in Africa ; 44. 0169-9814
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.
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Subject Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
Christianity -- Africa.
Christianity.
Africa.
Islam -- Africa.
Islam.
Religion and sociology -- Africa.
Religion and sociology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Echtler, Magnus, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Bourdieu in Africa 9789004303065 (DLC) 2015035044 (OCoLC)921240416
ISBN 9789004307568 (electronic book)
9004307567 (electronic book)
9004303065
9789004303065
9789004303065
9004303065
Standard No. 9789004303065
10.1163/9789004307568