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Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIIth Quinquennial Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, held from 5-11 August 2000, in Durban/South Africa. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the card-stock wraps. From the publisher's blurb, "In Africa as elsewhere, many scholars of religion are both involved in the study of religions and engaged in the field of dialogue. But how about the relationship between these two domains? Does the engagement in dialogue illegitimately interfere with the commitment to sound research? Should the study of religions be bound to a scientific ethos which furthers the principle of dialogue - or would this turn Religious Studies into an ideological endeavour? Is dialogue possibly a crucial aspect of a future History of Religions, especially in the context of Christian-Muslim relations in Africa?" Contributions by Klaus Hock, Muslih T. Yahya, Anne Kubai, Johnson A. Mbillah, Muhib O. Opeloye, Mudope Oduyoye, Stuart E. Brown, David Westerlund, Joergen S. Nielsen and others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. vii, 176 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. Summary:The papers presented in this volume inspect new forms (and the analysis of new forms) of African Christian life. These forms are the result of interactions between European and African Christianities in a realm both "beyond" or "trans" and very "amidst" their specific contexts due to processes of glocalisation and transnational migration. Taken as a whole, the contributions point out that the analysis of new forms of Christian life can no longer successfully claim the power of interpretation by simply holding on to hitherto established hegemonic discourses emphasising the advancement of "African" traditions or of plain Africanisation processes - or of the rejection of "European" traditions in combination with a revitalisation of "African" religious practices, institutions, beliefs, etc. Rather, this analysis may achieve a new power of interpretation by taking into account the impact of new hermeneutic orders as a result of a complex transconfiguration. Thereby, new forms of Christian life in Africa are created in the image of a new African vision beyond essentialist and dichotomic culturalist discourses.