02524nam 22006491 450 991096333590332120090915130142.0978135000557013500055769781474281379147428137010.5040/9781350005570(CKB)3710000000840709(EBL)4653919(MiAaPQ)EBC4653919(Au-PeEL)EBL4653919(CaPaEBR)ebr11251442(CaONFJC)MIL950996(OCoLC)957490941(OCoLC)1089439999(UtOrBLW)bpp09262767(UtOrBLW)BP9781350005570BC(Perlego)808633(EXLCZ)99371000000084070920180205h2018 uy 0engurcn|---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTales of faith religion as political performance in Central Africa /V.Y. Mudimbe1st ed.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,2018.1 online resource (258 pages)Religious studies : Bloomsbury Academic collectionsDescription based upon print version of record.9781474281386 1474281389 9780485174182 0485174189 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, CentralReligion & beliefsAfrica, CentralReligionChristianityReligion and politics291.1/77/0967Mudimbe V. Y.1941-1021321UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910963335903321Tales of faith4521674UNINA