Bwiti : : An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa / / J. W. Fernandez.
We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to experi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (800 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Photographs
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Linguistic Note
- Entering into an Equatorial Microcosm
- PART I. THE ROAD
- 1. Narratives of Fang-European Contacts, 1840-1910
- 2. Compositions of the Past
- 3. Extensions into Social Space and Time
- 4. Fang Incorporated in Built Space
- 5. Resource Distribution and Social Reciprocities
- 6. The Relations between the Sexes
- 7. Authority and Benevolence in the Life Cycle
- 8. Coming into Manhood
- 9. The Occult Search for Capacity
- PART II. INTERPRETATIONS
- 10. Ritual at Work in Two Old Fang Cults
- 11. Reinterpretations of Mission
- PART III. A PLEASURE DOME
- 12. Administered Morality and Moral Movement to a Fuller Self
- 13. The Origin and Re-creation of Gods and Men
- 14. The Dynamics of Bwiti in Space and Time
- 15. The Bwiti Chapel: Architectonics
- 16. The Corporation of Angels
- 17. The Path of Birth and Death: The Benevolence in the Liturgical Cycle
- 18. Equatorial Excursions: The Quest for Revitalizing Dreams and Visions
- 19. The Word in Bwiti
- 20. The Pleasure Dome Emergent
- Afterword: The Suggestion of Coherence, The Impression of Momentum
- Appendix I. Glossary of Key Terms
- Appendix II. Sermon Texts
- Appendix III. The MBiri Curing Societies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index