Unpacking the New - Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in Africa and Beyond (Paperback)

In a world supposedly characteried by the production of new differences and cultural permutations resulting from the twin processes of globaliation and cultural syncretisation, hardly anything has remained as obscure and theoretically under-theoried as the very notion of the "new" itself. This book seeks to unravel and demystify the ideology of the new on the basis of concrete case studies from various regions across Africa and beyond.

Afe Adogame is a lecturer in world Christianity at the University of Edinburgh.

Magnus Echtler is a researcher at the department for religious studies, University of Bayreuth.

Ulf Vierke is a researcher at the Iwalewa-House, Africa Centre of the University Bayreuth.