Invisible agents : spirits in a Central African history /
Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | New African histories series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Seeing invisible worlds
- The passion of Chitimukulu
- Christian witches
- Satan in the city
- A new Jerusalem
- The dawn
- Devils of war
- God in heaven, Kaunda on earth
- A nation reborn
- Conclusion: The spirit realm of agency.