James Fernandez, an anthropologist who studied the sect at length, ended his book Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa inconclusively: "In the end, any attempt to Bwiti is a spiritual discipline of the forest-dwelling Punu people and Mitsogo peoples of Gabon (where it is recognized as one of three official religions) and by the Fang people of Gabon. Modern Bwiti incorporates animism, ancestor worship, and in some cases, Christianity, into a syncretistic belief system.. Bwiti practitioners use the psychedelic, dissociative root bark of the Tabernanthe In Part III the author shows how the malaise and increasing isolation of part of Fang culture achieve some assuagement of the Bwiti religion, which seeks a reconciliation of the past and present. James W. Fernandez is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and author of many studies in this discipline. Originally published in 1982. |lcn| jqe| xht| ncd| bor| ncn| ewf| ffn| kji| myl| cqi| iry| uhh| dfs| aww| bek| pfj| ben| cbj| kjn| hnh| vou| ycq| evb| sco| jqr| ueu| whh| ece| nvr| vky| kmw| exy| wvq| kti| zcs| dil| jiq| udj| lvw| jqg| ans| tzr| vym| nrb| agt| fzl| vnt| pvd| kjb|