Bōkā or how one Religion sees another: Islamic discourses on ‘African Traditional Religion’ in West Africa
Islamic discourses in West Africa that use Hausa as lingua franca commonly designate ‘African Traditional Religion’ as bōkā. I consider bōkā as ethnographic theory, i.e., as means to contemplate and make sense of the forms of life that it is embedded in and that it articulates. Accordingly, translat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2022
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Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-85 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Region Ashanti
/ Islam
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Traditionelle afrikanische Religion
/ Non-Islamic religion
/ Religious ethnology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam BS Traditional African religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
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religious encounters
B Translation B bōkā; ethnographic theory B Islam B African Traditional Religion B West Africa B Asante |
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