Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life: Reflective Essays on a Bantu ReligionBRILL, 1 jan. 1997 - 270 sidor This is a book about understanding an African religion that explores the coherence of the religion and the place of ritual in it, but which also looks at the way studying the religion of a very different society from our own throws up questions and helps to particularize the assumptions we make about religion and ideas we have on personhood. The essays collected in the volume focus upon the Kuria people of East Africa but range well beyond them. Some of the topics explored are: the ordering of society through ritual; 'belief' as a category central to Christianity but misleading in its application to other religions; life-processes rather than the supernatural as the focus for religious understanding; the nature of sacrifice; ideas of the person; cosmology and ritual; conversion; the values of Western individualism as represented in art forms. |
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Two representations of Western Individualism | 216 |
looking through categories and not just | 230 |
A note on Kuria generation classes | 241 |
The giving of names | 252 |
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actions age-sets ancestors animal anthropologists become beer-party belief Bemba body breath bridewealth Bukusu carried cattle central Chapter chief child chisungu Christian chyme concepts concerned context creeds cycle dead death denote derive descent line described discussion Durkheim eastern Bantu elderhood ceremony essay established fact fire formal Freud ghosts girl goat Gosiani growth Gusii heart homestead human iconic ideas important initiation inyangi isubo Kibuko Kuria culture Kuria religion Kuria ritual living Lucian Freud Luyia Maasai marriage meaning metonymically Muita natural Ndembu notion noun class Nuer Nyakyusa omwoyo opening organization performed person physical processes recognised reference relation relationship religious Renchoka rites of circumstance rites of passage ritual elderhood ritual elders ritual killing Robi Rodin role sacred sacrifice seers senior sense sequence sexual shadow significance simply social society spirit stomach Swahili symbolic Taita tree wife woman word Zinza Zulu