Bourdieu in Africa : exploring the dynamics of religious fields / edited by Magnus Echtler (Universitat Bayreuth, Germany), Asonzeh Ukah (University of Cape Town, South Africa).

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Echtler, Magnus [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies on religion in Africa ; 44.Publisher: Boston : Brill, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789004307568
9004307567
9004303065
9789004303065

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bourdieu in AfricaDDC classification:

200.96 23

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BR1360 .B68 2015eb

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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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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