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Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), this book shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa."Sacred words” are taken to mean holy texts as in divination, the Quran and the Bible. Toyin Falola evaluates how religious leaders engage with sacred words, both orals and texts, engendering practices that reveal the expression of religious beliefs, the impact of those beliefs, and the knowledge contained in them. Attention is given to the key ideas in the words chosen by religious leaders, and how they form a continuous knowledge system, impacting the politics of managing society and people.

Spirituality --- Sacred books --- Religion and politics

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"Liturgical books are not only the most important evidence for understanding patterns of worship in the Middle Ages, they are also highly complex sources, comprising many constituent parts, which often cannot be easily harmonised. Their codification not only served practical purposes, but also had a representational function; it could also serve to preserve and transmit formative knowledge or authorised and authorising tradition. The interdisciplinary contributions in the present volume explore, among other things, the multi-layered nature and complex typology of composite sources, the relationship between literary and liturgical transmission, and the historical and cultural significance of liturgical books from the Western Middle Ages. " "Liturgische Bücher sind nicht nur die wichtigsten Quellen für die Feier des Gottesdienstes. Viele Handschriften bestehen aus mehreren Komponenten, die sich häufig nicht einfach harmonisieren lassen; ihre Kodifikation dient nicht nur praktischen Zwecken, sondern auch der Repräsentation oder der Bewahrung und Weitergabe von Bildungsgut oder autoritativer Tradition. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes erörtern unter anderem den vielschichtigen Charakter und die komplexe Typologie kompositer Quellen, das Verhältnis von literarischer und liturgischer Überlieferung sowie die historische und kulturelle Bedeutung liturgischer Bücher des westlichen Mittelalters."

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