Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: problematizing syncretism......Page 12
What \'Alhaji Airplane\' saw in Mecca, and what happened when he came home: ritual transformation in a Mende community (Sierra Leone)......Page 38
Beyond syncretism: translation and diabolization in the appropriation of Protestantism in Africa......Page 56
Variation on a Christian theme: the healing synthesis of Zulu Zionism......Page 80
The politics of religious synthesis: Roman Catholicism and Hindu village society in Tamil Nadu, India......Page 96
Ritual, power and colonial domination: male initiation among the Ngaing of Papua New Guinea......Page 119
Syncretism as a dimension of nationalist discourse in modern Greece......Page 138
Syncretic inventions: \'Indianness\' and the Day of the Monkey......Page 156
Manipulated identities: syncretism and uniqueness of tradition in modern Japanese discourse......Page 172
Are fireworks Islamic? Towards an understanding of Turkish migrants and Islam in Germany......Page 189
Syncretism, multiculturalism and the discourse of tolerance......Page 207
Afterword......Page 223
Name index......Page 227
Subject index......Page 0