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The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particular

Iconoclasm --- Idols and images --- History --- Worship --- Guinea --- Ginia --- Guinée --- Gvinei︠a︡ --- Gvineĭskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Gvineja --- Republic of Guinea --- République de Guinée --- République populaire révolutionnaire de Guinée --- Гвинея --- ギニア --- French Guinea --- Religion. --- Iconoclasme --- Religion --- Guinée --- Religion et politique --- Baga (peuple d'Afrique) --- Islam --- Femmes