TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adogame,Afeosemime U.
AU  - Echtler,Magnus
AU  - Vierke,Ulf
TI  - Unpacking the new: critical perspectives on cultural syncretization in Africa and beyond 
SN  - 9783037359341 (Zürich)
AV  - BL2400 .U67 2008
U1  - 126.12 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Wien, London
PB  - Lit Verlag, Global Book Marketing [distributor]
KW  - Syncretism (Religion)
KW  - Africa
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Social change
KW  - Synkretismus
KW  - swd
KW  - Soziokultureller Wandel
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Bayreuth <2004>
KW  - Cultural cyncretization
KW  - Crtical perspectives
KW  - Kongress
N1  - Contents

Introduction  Unpacking the new: Critical perspectives on cultural syncretisation in Africa and beyond

Purity as hybridization: religio-cultural syncretism in the context of globalization

Syncretists, fundamentalists and scholars compared 

Conceptual blending in language, cognition and culture towards a methodology for the linguistic  study  of syncretic concepts

Creolization and simplification : Linguistic perspective

The Baraza in Zanzibar : local sitting and transitional thinking  in cosmopolitan setting

Cross over and fuzzy edges in the Swahili Toarab Lyric

The idea of India syncretism or creativity in vodun art and thought

The pot and the kettle 'hybrid' discourse in Swahili literature

Syncretism and anti-syncretism in marriage matters in Kumasi: The role of Pentecostal charismatic churches

The new and its temptations: Products of modernity and their impact on social change in Africa

Spiritual terrorism beyond borders: African Pentecostalism cultural synthesis with in local-global space

Creating a transitional public: The faith movement across cultures

Makai Koga: The development of syncretic rituals in a globalising world
; Includes bibliographical references
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