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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2019
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2019, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 145-161 |
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Pentecostalism
B Imagination B Modernity B Africa B Religion B Politics B Christianity B Secularism |
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