Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life
Reflexive Essays on a Bantu Religion
Series: Studies of Religion in Africa; 18;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 1 January 1997
- ISBN 9789004106406
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages270 pages
- Weight 663 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-cultural issues regarding broad themes in eastern Bantu religions as well as western assumptions about religion and individual personhood.
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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 about religion and ideas we have on personhood.
The essays collected in the volume focus upon the Kuria people of East Africa but range well beyond them. Some of the topics explored are: the ordering of society through ritual; 'belief' as a category central to Christianity but misleading in its application to other religions; life-processes rather than the supernatural as the focus for religious understanding; the nature of sacrifice; ideas of the person; cosmology and ritual; conversion; the values of Western individualism as represented in art forms.
'...this book is warmly recommended to anyone with a serious interest in African culture and religions. It offers important insights and challenges for all who are concerned with the effective prosecution of the missionary task in a multi-cultural world today.'
David Smith, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology.
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This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-cultural issues regarding broad themes in eastern Bantu religions as well as western assumptions about religion and individual personhood.
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Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life: Reflexive Essays on a Bantu Religion
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