ISBN:
0-415-11117-X
,
978-0-415-11117-1
,
0-415-11116-1 /Hb.
,
978-0-415-11116-4 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 225 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
Keywords:
Afrika, Subsahara Indien
;
Europa
;
Japan
;
Papua-Neuguinea
;
Venezuela
;
Synkretismus
;
Religion
Abstract:
Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistance to colonial hegemony, a sign of cultural survival, or as a means of authorising political dominance in a multicultural state.In Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism the contributors explore the issues of agency and power which are integral to the very process of syncretism and to the competing discourses surrounding the term. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: problematizing syncretism / Rosalind Shaw and Charles Stewart -- What 'Alhaji Airplane' saw in Mecca, and what happened when he came home: ritual transformation in a Mende community (Sierra Leone) / Mariane Ferme -- Beyond syncretism: translation and diabolization in the appropriation of Protestantism in Africa / Birgit Meyer -- Variation on a Christian theme: the healing synthesis of Zulu Zionism / Jim Kiernan -- The politics of religious synthesis: Roman Catholicism and Hindu village society in Tamil Nadu, India / David Morse -- Ritual, power and colonial domination: male initiation among the Ngaing of Papua New Guinea / Wolfgang Kempf -- Syncretism as a dimension of nationalist discourse in modern Greece / Charles Stewart -- Syncretic inventions: 'Indianness' and the Day of the Monkey / David M. Guss -- Manipulated identities: syncretism and uniqueness of tradition in modern Japanese discourse / Klaus-Peter Koepping -- Are fireworks Islamic? Towards an understanding of Turkish migrants and Islam in Germany / Lale Yalçin-Heckmann -- Syncretism, multiculturalism and the discourse of tolerance / Peter van der Veer -- Afterword / Richard Werbner -- Name index -- Subject index
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