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Evil in Africa: Encounters with the Everyday

By William C. Olsen , Walter E. A. van Beek (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0253017432, 9780253017437
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2970688 bytes)
Pages
404\405
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-11-16 00:42:02
Ethics Morality Philosophy Politics Social Science

Description

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity.

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