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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,...

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Other Authors: Echtler, Magnus (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Brill, 2015.
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 44.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004307568
9004307567
9004303065
9789004303065
ISSN:0169-9814 ;

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