Unpacking the new : critical perspectives on cultural syncretization in Africa and beyond / edited by Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler and Ulf Vierke.

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.