Spirits in Politics: Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies
- ISBN-10
- 3593399156
- ISBN-13
- 9783593399157
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Campus Verlag
- Authors
- Arne S. Steinforth, Barbara Meier
Description
4e de couv.: This anthropology addresses persisting questions social anthropologist, historians, and political scientists working in African societies have been confronted with: Do spirits enter the scene after political have failed as a relapse into an allegedly non-modern condition? Or do they precede colonial processes of political transformation, as classis theories of modernization try to establish? The volume seeks to extend the reflections on the relationship of religious phenomena in the socio-political sphere in African societies. It presents case studies which focus on the concepts of modernity, power, and violence, adding the notion of healing to this context and investigating their empirical correlations.
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