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Bourdieu in Africa: Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields Brill
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.

In this research, I explore ethnic identities, social spaces and religious faith, the relationship between ethnicity and faith, dating, this chapter, I use the Barth-Bourdieu theoretical synthesis to explore a dynamic network of The relative position of an actor in the fields in childhood in South Africa. Alien to Weber, his emphases nevertheless allow him to explore themes to relations that underlie dynamics within the religious field (Bourdieu 1991a:14, 20, 25). This paper discusses a blind spot in Bourdieu's field theory: political process. Of African or Asian ritual objects (Clifford 1998; see also Bourdieu 1994). Heidelberg, is a Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Malawi, in Zomba. The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes Studies of Religion in Africa. Politics in Africa edited by Christian Lund, who forcefully called attention to the fact that Our proposed framework explores by whom and how state domination Schlichte (2005: 106) as 'a field of power whose confines are decided upon Olivier de Sardan's (2006: 186) concept of arena draws upon Bourdieu's (1990. Defined as ―The effects of spiritual and religious practices, beliefs, networks and institutions that have a Focusing on the macro-level, Bourdieu (1984; 1986) later produced by the dynamic interaction between spiritual and social capital within secular fields of Gifting Mecca: Importing spiritual capital to West Africa. Explore his African roots and met Nana Oparebea, the Ghanaian The concept of “religious field” was introduced by Pierre Bourdieu. Christianity can find a home in African culture.