TY - BOOK ID - 77875731 TI - The politics of religious change on the upper Guinea coast : iconoclasm done and undone AU - Sarró, Ramon AU - International African Institute PY - 2009 VL - 38 SN - 0748653007 128205905X 9786612059056 0748636668 9780748636662 9780748635153 0748635157 9780748653003 PB - Edinburgh : London : Edinburgh University Press, International African Institute, DB - UniCat KW - Iconoclasm KW - Idols and images KW - History KW - Worship KW - Guinea KW - Ginia KW - Guinée KW - Gvinei︠a︡ KW - Gvineĭskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Gvineja KW - Republic of Guinea KW - République de Guinée KW - République populaire révolutionnaire de Guinée KW - Гвинея KW - ギニア KW - French Guinea KW - Religion. KW - Iconoclasme KW - Religion KW - Guinée KW - Religion et politique KW - Baga (peuple d'Afrique) KW - Islam KW - Femmes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77875731 AB - 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 ER -