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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism The Politics of Religious Synthesis

Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism The Politics of Religious Synthesis
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  • ISBN-13: 9780415111171
  • ISBN: 041511117X
  • Publication Date: 1994
  • Publisher: Routledge

AUTHOR

Stewart, Charles, Shaw, Rosalind

SUMMARY

Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard 'world religions' which are deemed 'inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to 'official' (read 'European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistance to colonial hegemony, a sign of cultural survival, or as a means of authorising political dominance in a multicultural state.In Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism the contributors explore the issues of agency and power which are integral to the very process of syncretism and to the competing discourses surrounding the term.Stewart, Charles is the author of 'Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism The Politics of Religious Synthesis', published 1994 under ISBN 9780415111171 and ISBN 041511117X.

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