Unpacking the new :  critical perspectives on cultural syncretization in Africa and beyond / 
edited by Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler and Ulf Vierke. 
 - Wien :  London :  Lit Verlag ;  Global Book Marketing [distributor],  c2008. 
 - 373 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ;  Bd. 36 .
<br/><br/> Contents<br/><br/>Introduction  Unpacking the new: Critical perspectives on cultural syncretisation in Africa and beyond<br/><br/>Purity as hybridization: religio-cultural syncretism in the context of globalization<br/><br/>Syncretists, fundamentalists and scholars compared <br/><br/>Conceptual blending in language, cognition and culture towards a methodology for the linguistic  study  of syncretic concepts<br/><br/>Creolization and simplification : Linguistic perspective<br/><br/>The Baraza in Zanzibar : local sitting and transitional thinking  in cosmopolitan setting<br/><br/>Cross over and fuzzy edges in the Swahili Toarab Lyric<br/><br/>The idea of India syncretism or creativity in vodun art and thought<br/><br/>The pot and the kettle 'hybrid' discourse in Swahili literature<br/><br/>Syncretism and anti-syncretism in marriage matters in Kumasi: The role of Pentecostal charismatic churches<br/><br/>The new and its temptations: Products of modernity and their impact on social change in Africa<br/><br/>Spiritual terrorism beyond borders: African Pentecostalism cultural synthesis with in local-global space<br/><br/>Creating a transitional public: The faith movement across cultures<br/><br/>Makai Koga: The development of syncretic rituals in a globalising world<br/> 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783037359341 (Zürich) 303735934X (Zürich) 9783825807191 (Berlin) 3825807193 (Berlin) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008459169 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA8D0275  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014755439  Uk 987538314  GyFmDB 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Syncretism (Religion)--Africa--Congresses.<br/>Social change--Africa--Congresses.<br/>Synkretismus.<br/>Soziokultureller Wandel.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afrika.<br/>Bayreuth <2004>.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Cultural cyncretization Crtical perspectives 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Kongress.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL2400  / .U67 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>126.12  / UNP