Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism

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  • Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism Book Detail

  • Author : Rosalind Shaw
  • Release Date : 2003-12-16
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 242
  • ISBN 13 : 1134833946
  • File Size : 27,27 MB

Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism by Rosalind Shaw PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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