The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast

Iconoclasm Done and Undone

Bibliographic Data

ID2436044
AuthorsRamon Sarró (0000-0003-1866-2662, corresponding author), Ramon Sarro´
Year2008
Publication date2008-12-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolitics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9780748636662
OpenAlexW4242702367
Open LibraryOL37363690M
ISBN9780748636662
LanguageEN
Citations received15

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635153'); Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology. The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly those with an interest in the anthropology of religion, iconoclasm, the history and anthropology of West Africa, or the politics of heritage. This book examines the historical complexity of the interface between Islam, tradition religions and Christianity in west Africa, and how this interface links with dramatic political changes It gives a detailed ethnographic approach through which such complex history is unveiled and analysed It presents a dialogue between the field findings, a long tradition of anthropology and the most recent anthropological debates

Appeal · Archaeology · Art history · Christianity · Colonialism · Ethnography · Iconoclasm · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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