Understanding Religion and Politics in Africa: A Call for the Re-enchantment of the Scholarly Imagination

Abstract In his 2015 book Christianity, Development, and Modernity in Africa , Paul Gifford argues that Christianity in Africa is bifurcated into an ‘enchanted’ and a ‘disenchanted’ form. He presents the conundrum that the enchanted form is pervasive yet incompatible with modernity and consistently...

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Main Author: Fast, Anicka (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2019
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2019, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 145-161
Further subjects:B Pentecostalism
B Imagination
B Modernity
B Africa
B Religion
B Politics
B Christianity
B Secularism
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