Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life

Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 282
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789004664678
ISBN-13 : 900466467X
Rating : 4/5 (67X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life by : Ruel

Download or read book Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life written by Ruel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-cultural issues regarding broad themes in eastern Bantu religions as well as western assumptions about religion and individual personhood.


Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life Related Books

Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Ruel
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-20 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-c
Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Malcolm Ruel
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-c
Genealogies of Religion
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Talal Asad
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-08-18 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The
African Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Daryll Forde
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: James Currey Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th
Christianity as Distinct Practices
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Jan-Olav Henriksen
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-10 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jan-Olav Henriksen reconstructs and analyzes Christianity as a cluster of practices that manifest a distinct historically and contextually shaped mode of being