Belief, ritual and the securing of life : : reflexive essays on a Bantu religion / / Malcolm Ruel.
This is a book about understanding an African religion that explores the coherence of the religion and the place of ritual in it, but which also looks at the way studying the religion of a very different society from our own throws up questions and helps to particularize the assumptions we make abou...
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Ruel, Malcolm, Belief, ritual and the securing of life : reflexive essays on a Bantu religion / Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Prayer to the sun -- Introduction -- 1 Religion and society among Kuria of East Africa -- 2 Christians as believers -- 3 Icons, indexical symbols and metaphorical action -- 4 Growing the girl -- 5 Non-sacrificial ritual killing -- 6 Passages and the person -- 7 Ritual and cosmology -- 8 Kuria conversion -- 9 Kuria seers -- 10 Two representations of Western Individualism -- 1 Auguste Rodin and the sacredness of the self -- 2 Lucian Freud and the naked self -- A personal envoy: looking through categories and not just at them -- Appendix 1 A note on Kuria generation classes -- Appendix 2 The giving of names -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Prayer to the sun -- Introduction -- 1 Religion and society among Kuria of East Africa -- 2 Christians as believers -- 3 Icons, indexical symbols and metaphorical action -- 4 Growing the girl -- 5 Non-sacrificial ritual killing -- 6 Passages and the person -- 7 Ritual and cosmology -- 8 Kuria conversion -- 9 Kuria seers -- 10 Two representations of Western Individualism -- 1 Auguste Rodin and the sacredness of the self -- 2 Lucian Freud and the naked self -- A personal envoy: looking through categories and not just at them -- Appendix 1 A note on Kuria generation classes -- Appendix 2 The giving of names -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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