Syncretism in religion
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Anita M. Leopold and Jeppe S. Jensen.
Contributors: Leopold, Anita M.; Jensen, Jeppe Sinding, 1951-
Series: Critical categories in the study of religion
Publisher: Equinox
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Syncretism (Religion).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: The historical background of the term syncretism: the problem of definition; value: In praise of syncretism: the beginnings of Christianity conceived in the light of a diagnosis of modern culture / Hans G. Kippenberg; value: Syncretism / Hendrik Kraemer; value: Syncretism and the history of religions / Robert D. Baird; value: Syncretism and ambiguity / Michael Pye; value: Syncretism: from theological invective to a concept in the study of religion / Kurt Rudolph; value: Syncretism: the dynamics of religion; value: The dynamism of religions. Syncretism. Mission / Gerardus van der Leeuw; value: Syncretism and dialogue: a philosophical analysis / Hendrik M. Vroom; value: Problems of religious syncretism / Roger Bastide; value: Religions in contact: power, syncretism and creolization; value: Herskovits's heritage: rethinking syncretism in the African diaspora / Andrew Apter; value: The Caribbean: marvelous cradle-hammock and painful cornucopia / Carlos Guillermo Wilson; value: Syncretism and legitimacy in Latin American religion / Gustavo Benavides; value: Syncretism, power, play / André Droogers; value: Worlds in collusion: on social strategies and misrepresentations as forces of syncretism in Euro-American and Native American affairs / Armin W. Geertz; value: Category problems and theoretical suspense; value: Relocating syncretism in social science discourse / Charles Stewart; value: Syncretism, historicism, and cognition: a response to Michael Pye / Luther H. Martin; value: The Concept of 'syncretism': an instrument of historical insight/discovery? / Ulrich Berner; value: Current approaches to syncretism in the study of religion; value: Orthosyncretism: an account of melding in religion / Timothy Light; value: Religious tendencies in Greece at the dawn of the twenty-first century: an approach to contemporary Greek reality / Panayotis Pachis; value: Medicine-men, modernity and magic: syncretism as an explanatory category to recent religious responses and magical practices among urban Blacks in contemporary South Africa / Kirstine Munk.