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- Title: Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
- Author : Rosalind Shaw & Charles Stewart
- Release Date : January 16, 2003
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 930 KB
Description
Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistance to colonial hegemony, a sign of cultural survival, or as a means of authorising political dominance in a multicultural state.
In Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism the contributors explore the issues of agency and power which are integral to the very process of syncretism and to the competing discourses surrounding the term.
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