Bourdieu in Africa : : exploring the dynamics of religious fields / / 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,...
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| Superior document: | Studies of Religion in Africa : Supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa, Volume 44 |
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| 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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction: Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields in Africa / Magnus Echtler and Asonzeh Ukah
- 2 Pierre Bourdieu and the Role of the Spirit in Some Zulu/Swathi aics / Jonathan A. Draper
- 3 Re-Imagining the Religious Field: The Rhetoric of Nigerian Pentecostal Pastors in South Africa / Asonzeh Ukah
- 4 The Faraqqasaa Pilgrimage Center from Bourdieu’s Perspectives of Field, Habitus and Capital / Gemechu Jemal Geda
- 5 Fielding for the Faithful: A Tale of Two Religious Centers in a Small Muslim Town in Kenya / Halkano Abdi Wario
- 6 The Bishop and the Politician: Intra- and Inter-Field Dynamics in 19th Century Natal, South Africa / Ulrich Berner
- 7 Healers or Heretics: Diviners and Pagans Contest the Law in a Post-1994 Religious Field in South Africa / Dale Wallace
- 8 The False Messiah—Evangelicalism, Youth and Politics in Eritrea / Magnus Treiber
- 9 Seclusion versus Education: Bourdieu’s Perspective on Women Continuing Education Centers in Northern Nigeria / Chikas Danfulani
- 10 Shembe is the Way: The Nazareth Baptist Church in the Religious Field and in Academic Discourse / Magnus Echtler
- Index.