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Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

By: David Berliner,Ramon Sarro

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Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

By: David Berliner,Ramon Sarro

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

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Berghahn Books

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Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

Iconoclasm Done and Undone

By: Ramon Sarro

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Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

Iconoclasm Done and Undone

By: Ramon Sarro

Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology. The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens.The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly those with an interest in the anthropology of religion, iconoclasm, the history and anthropology of West Africa, or the politics of heritage.* This book examines the historical complexity of the interface between Islam, tradition religions and Christianity in west Africa, and how this interface links with dramatic political changes* It gives a detailed ethnographic approach through which such complex history is unveiled and analysed* It presents a dialogue between the field findings, a long tradition of anthropology and the most recent anthropological debates

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Edinburgh University Press

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9780748636662

Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

Iconoclasm Done and Undone

By: Ramon Sarro

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Iconoclasm Done and Undone

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Learning Religion

Learning Religion

Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

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