Text and performance in an African church: The Book, "live and direct"

American Ethnologist

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 76-91

  Engelke, Matthew ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Christianity; Postcolonial Africa; Reading; Ritual; Textual authority

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442454783     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2004.31.1.76     Document Type: Review

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