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Action as the Way of Transcendence

Action as the Way of Transcendence ACTION AS THE WAY OF TRANSCENDENCE THE RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BWAMI CULT OF THE LEGA BY EVAN M. ZUESSE (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.) There are a few really basic works in the field of African religions which have the power to alter permanently our understanding of the subject, works whose insights have provided unexpected new ways of seizing African realities. Everyone's list of these works must be a little different. Mine would include E vans-Pritchard's Nuer Religion, Marcel Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmêli (and even more Griaule and Dieterlen's Le Renard P61e), Bernard Maupoil's La Géo- anancie de l'ancienne C6te des Esclaves, and Victor Turner's Forest of Syvnbols. A few more monographs might be added, but not many. Each of these works has the merit of going deeply behind the surface of the religion they describe, to such a depth that scientific rigour itself ends up becoming a testimony to the spirit. Each work also opens up new methodologies. To my way of thinking, there is a new book to add to this exclusive list, a work more radical in its implications than most already on it. The book has already been out a number http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

Action as the Way of Transcendence

Zuesse, Evan M.
Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 9 (1): 62 – Jan 1, 1978
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Brill
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© 1978 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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1570-0666
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10.1163/157006678X00172
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ACTION AS THE WAY OF TRANSCENDENCE THE RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BWAMI CULT OF THE LEGA BY EVAN M. ZUESSE (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.) There are a few really basic works in the field of African religions which have the power to alter permanently our understanding of the subject, works whose insights have provided unexpected new ways of seizing African realities. Everyone's list of these works must be a little different. Mine would include E vans-Pritchard's Nuer Religion, Marcel Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmêli (and even more Griaule and Dieterlen's Le Renard P61e), Bernard Maupoil's La Géo- anancie de l'ancienne C6te des Esclaves, and Victor Turner's Forest of Syvnbols. A few more monographs might be added, but not many. Each of these works has the merit of going deeply behind the surface of the religion they describe, to such a depth that scientific rigour itself ends up becoming a testimony to the spirit. Each work also opens up new methodologies. To my way of thinking, there is a new book to add to this exclusive list, a work more radical in its implications than most already on it. The book has already been out a number

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Published: Jan 1, 1978

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