Theoretical explorations in African religion
By: edited by Wim van Binsbergen and Matthew Schoffeleers.
Contributors: Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.; Schoffeleers, J. M.
Series: Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden
Publisher: KPI; Routledge; Kegan Paul
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical explorations in African religion / Wim van Binsbergen and Matthew Schoffeleers; title: Perspectives on divination in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa / Renaat Devisch; title: Towards a semantic approach to the principle of transformation / Wauthier de Mahieu; title: From waste-making to recycling / André Droogers; title: Religious pluralism / Johannes Fabian; title: Oral history and the retrieval of the distant past / Matthew Schoffeleers; title: The historical interpretation of myth in the context of popular Islam / Wim van Binsbergen; title: The consequences of literacy in African religion / John M. Janzen; title: The argument of images / Richard P. Werbner; title: Religious studies and political economy / Terence O. Ranger; title: Dini ya Msambwa / Robert Buijtenhuijs; title: Prophets of God or of history? / Christian Coulon.