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Title Rain rituals and hybridity in Southern Africa
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9786
Date 2008
Author(s) Muller, R.
Abstract This article discusses the persistence and transformation of rain rituals in contemporary African Christianity. It argues that the concept 'hybridity' might be a useful addition to the vocabulary of scholars studying contemporary global Christianity. The use of hybridity could replace ideologically loaded terms, such as syncretism, while still describing the interaction between different religious traditions on the phenomenological level. In Africa, as elsewhere, there are ongoing internal dialogues between the often divergent traditions represented in the worldviews of contemporary Christians. Under the concept hybridity, this internal inter-religious dialogue might be well described using non-pejorative, empirical language. - http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1525162
Subject(s) Hybridity
Language en
Publisher Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria
Type of publication Article
Rights Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria
Identifier Muller, R 2008, 'Rain rituals and hybridity in Southern Africa', Verbum et Ecclesia, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 819-831. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_verbum.html]; 1609-9982
Repository Pretoria - University of Pretoria, UPSpace
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