Bourdieu in Africa : : exploring the dynamics of religious fields / / edited by Magnus Echtler, Asonzeh Ukah.

• Superior document: Studies of Religion in Africa : Supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa, Volume 44
• TeilnehmendeR: Echtler, Magnus,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on religion in Africa ; Volume 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 1 Introduction: Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields in Africa /; 2 Pierre Bourdieu and the Role of the Spirit in Some Zulu/Swathi aics /; 3 Re-Imagining the Religious Field: The Rhetoric of Nigerian Pentecostal Pastors in South Africa /; 4 The Faraqqasaa Pilgrimage Center from Bourdieu’s Perspectives of Field, Habitus and Capital /; 5 Fielding for the Faithful: A Tale of Two Religious Centers in a Small Muslim Town in Kenya /; 6 The Bishop and the Politician: Intra- and Inter-Field Dynamics in 19th Century Natal, South Africa /; 7 Healers or Heretics: Diviners and Pagans Contest the Law in a Post-1994 Religious Field in South Africa /; 8 The False Messiah—Evangelicalism, Youth and Politics in Eritrea /; 9 Seclusion versus Education: Bourdieu’s Perspective on Women Continuing Education Centers in Northern Nigeria /; 10 Shembe is the Way: The Nazareth Baptist Church in the Religious Field and in Academic Discourse /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 9004307567
• ISSN: 0169-9814
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Magnus Echtler, Asonzeh Ukah.

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.