Tales of Faith Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa [Hardcover]

This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage.

Preface
1. God's Inflections  On the Politics of Interpretation
2. Erasing the Difference of Genesis
3. The Practice of Misunderstanding
4. Acculturation  An'Espace M?tiss?'
Epilogue
Bibliography

V. Y. Mudimbeis Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature at Duke University, USA.