The power of the occult in modern Africa : continuity and innovation in the renewal of African cosmologies / James Kiernan (Ed.).

Title
  1. The power of the occult in modern Africa : continuity and innovation in the renewal of African cosmologies / James Kiernan (Ed.).
Published by
  1. Berlin : Lit Verlag ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, c2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Kiernan, J. P. (James Patrick)
Description
  1. vii, 243 p.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Modernity and belonging ; v. 4
Uniform title
  1. Modernity and belonging ; Bd. 4.
Subject
  1. Afrika
  2. Cosmology, African
  3. Kosmologie
  4. Moderniteit
  5. Occultism > Africa
  6. Occultisme
Contents
  1. Evans-Pritchard and the theoretical demise of the concept of magic / Elias K. Bongmba -- Witchcraft and modernity : thoughts about a strange complicity / Peter Geschiere -- Perversion of power : witchcraft and the sexuality of evil in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Discourses of occult in local power struggles in rural Zambia / Owen Sichone -- Politicians, party politics, and the control of harmful magic : witchfinding and moral entrepreneurship during the independence era in coastal Kenya / Diane Ciekawy -- In pursuit of the occult : the investigation of Satanism and witchcraft in South Africa / Véronique Faure -- Prayers, guns, and ritual murder : power and the occult in Ghanaian popular cinema / Birgit Meyer -- Embodying the occult : religious experiences and ritual practices in urban Zulu zionism / Rune Flikke.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain