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Author : Leah Brumer
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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Theories of Religion and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-1857 written by Leah Brumer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 558 pages
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Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520969936
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Religion written by David Chidester and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. The book is divided into three sections: Part One revitalizes basic categories—animism and sacred, space and time—by situating them in their material production and testing their analytical viability. Part Two examines religious formations as configurations of power that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. Part Three explores the material dynamics of circulation through case studies of religious mobility, change, and diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics, David Chidester provides an entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, and history.
Author : Jennifer Wenzel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226893499
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Bulletproof written by Jennifer Wenzel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet’s command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements—such as the Ghost Dance in North America and the Birsa Munda uprising in India—these actions were meant to transform the world and liberate the Xhosa from oppression. Despite the movement’s momentous failure to achieve that goal, the event has continued to exert a powerful pull on the South African imagination ever since. It is these afterlives of the prophecy that Jennifer Wenzel explores in Bulletproof. Wenzel examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing—harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation—to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Widening her lens, Wenzel also looks at how past failure can both inspire and constrain movements for justice in the present, and her brilliant insights into the cultural implications of prophecy will fascinate readers across a wide variety of disciplines.
Author : Andreana C. Prichard
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 162895292X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
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Author : Alan Lester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426204
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
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Author : Zakes Mda
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374708215
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Heart of Redness written by Zakes Mda and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa In The Heart of Redness -- shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize -- Zakes Mda sets a story of South African village life against a notorious episode from the country's past. The result is a novel of great scope and deep human feeling, of passion and reconciliation. As the novel opens Camugu, who left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. The failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers, dividing brother from brother, wife from husband, with devastating consequences. One hundred fifty years later, the two groups' decendants are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their future -- and into a bizarre love triangle as well. The Heart of Redness is a seamless weave of history, myth, and realist fiction. It is, arguably, the first great novel of the new South Africa -- a triumph of imaginative and historical writing.
Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191045896
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion written by Michael Stausberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources. Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments, distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics. The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile of this volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance the state of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Author : Roger S. Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168594
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
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Download or read book Religion in Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugo Mercier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691208921
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Not Born Yesterday written by Hugo Mercier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe—and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion—whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers—fail miserably. Drawing on recent findings from political science and other fields ranging from history to anthropology, Mercier shows that the narrative of widespread gullibility, in which a credulous public is easily misled by demagogues and charlatans, is simply wrong. Why is mass persuasion so difficult? Mercier uses the latest findings from experimental psychology to show how each of us is endowed with sophisticated cognitive mechanisms of open vigilance. Computing a variety of cues, these mechanisms enable us to be on guard against harmful beliefs, while being open enough to change our minds when presented with the right evidence. Even failures—when we accept false confessions, spread wild rumors, or fall for quack medicine—are better explained as bugs in otherwise well-functioning cognitive mechanisms than as symptoms of general gullibility. Not Born Yesterday shows how we filter the flow of information that surrounds us, argues that we do it well, and explains how we can do it better still.
Author : Jeff Peires
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868425630
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book The Dead will Arise written by Jeff Peires and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle-Killing of 1856-57, which she initiated, is one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood events in South Africa's history. Jeff Peires was the first historian to draw on all available sources, from oral tradition and obscure Xhosa texts to the private letters and secret reports of police informers and colonial officials, and the original edition of The Dead Will Arise won the 1989 Alan Paton Sunday Times award for non-fiction.
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0449214206
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (492 download)
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Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107198321
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Africans written by John Iliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
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Author : Candice Goucher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440868255
Total Pages : 1379 pages
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