02234nam 22005411 450 991046589430332120210820180124.01-350-00557-61-4742-8137-0(CKB)3710000000840709(EBL)4653919(MiAaPQ)EBC4653919(Au-PeEL)EBL4653919(CaPaEBR)ebr11251442(CaONFJC)MIL950996(OCoLC)957490941(OCoLC)1089439999(UtOrBLW)bpp09262767(EXLCZ)99371000000084070920180205h2018 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTales of faith religion as political performance in Central Africa /V.Y. MudimbeLondon :Bloomsbury Academic,2016.1 online resource (258 pages)Religious studies : Bloomsbury Academic collectionsDescription based upon print version of record.1-4742-8138-9 0-485-17418-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- 1. God's Inflections - On the Politics of Interpretation -- 2. Erasing the Difference of Genesis -- 3. The Practice of Misunderstanding -- 4. Acculturation - An 'Espace Métissé' -- Epilogue -- Bibliography."This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage."--Bloomsbury Publishing.ChristianityAfrica, CentralReligion and politicsAfrica, CentralElectronic books.ChristianityReligion and politics291.1770967Mudimbe V. Y.1941-1021321UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910465894303321Tales of faith2444252UNINA