Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas Fiction | Romance | Contemporary ; Fiction | Family Life | Marriage & Divorce ; Fiction | Own Voices ; Fiction | Women ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1639363766

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1639363766

and social progress

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1601624840

some years back

though it met resistance and continues to do so even today

Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas Fiction | Romance | Contemporary ; Fiction | Family Life | Marriage & Divorce ; Fiction | Own Voices ; Fiction | Women ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1639363766Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Building on a century long tradition of scholarship, this important book formulates a broader view of the mixing and interpenetration of religious beliefs and practices, primarily from Africa and Europe, highlighting the ways in which religions and cultures on both