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Do religions mix?

"Syncretic" religion, "creole" culture and the politics of authenticity

Ryan Schram

Mills 169 (A26)

ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au

13 April 2016

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Readings

Romberg, Raquel. 1998. “Whose Spirits Are They?: The Political Economy of Syncretism and Authenticity.” Journal of Folklore Research 35 (1): 69–82.

Palmié, Stephan. 2013a. “Mixed Blessings and Sorrowful Mysteries: Second Thoughts about 'Hybridity'” Current Anthropology 54 (4): 463–82. doi:10.1086/671196.

———. 2013b. The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stewart, Charles. 1999. “Syncretism and Its Synonyms: Reflections on Cultural Mixture.” Diacritics 29 (3): 40–62. doi:10.1353/dia.1999.0023.

Stewart, Charles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. London: Routledge.

Other media

Movsesian, Mark. 2015. “Yoga at the University: Those Canadian Students Have a Point.” First Things. November 30. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/11/yoga-at-the-university.

Meakins, Felicity. 2015. “Some Australian Indigenous Languages You Should Know.” The Conversation. May 8. http://theconversation.com/some-australian-indigenous-languages-you-should-know-40155.

References

Boas, Franz. 1940 [1920]. “The Methods of Ethnology.” In Race, Language and Culture, pp. 281-289. New York: The Macmillan Company.
Stewart, Charles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. Routledge.

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