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- W3048352774 abstract "This article focuses on the Kyangyang (‘the shadows’ or ‘the shades’), a prophetic movement that emerged in Guinea-Bissau in 1984, in which ‘animistic’ Balanta farmers-and-herders learned to pray as Muslims and Christians do. We want to propose that (a) more attention needs to be paid to religious movements that bridge the polarisation between Islam and Christianity in West Africa and (b) a broader focus on the overall pluralistic setting is necessary in order to understand the conditions of possibility for the emergence of a particular religion. We want to propose, too, that some religions glossed as mimetic (such as Kyangyang) are not as ‘secondary’, in relation to a putative primary source (Islam or Christianity being the model to be copied), as we may intuitively assume at first sight. Copying is part and parcel of human action and transformation but, paradoxical as it may sound, it may not be as opposed to originality as we tend to think. By looking at how Kyangyang works, how imagination is put to play by prophets in order to make Balanta farmers ‘move forward’ towards a potential ‘new world’, we may be getting at the very heart of what it means to be original, at least in terms of religious creativity. Cet article se concentre sur le Kyangyang (« les ombres »), un mouvement prophétique apparu au Guinée-Bissau en 1984, au sein duquel les éleveurs-cultivateurs « animistes » Balanta ont appris à prier comme les musulmans et les chrétiens. Nous proposons qu’une plus grande attention soit accordée (a) aux mouvements religieux qui réduisent l’écart entre l’Islam et le Christianisme en Afrique de l’Ouest, et (b) au contexte pluraliste global qui permet de comprendre les conditions rendant possible l’émergence d’une religion particulière. Nous avançons également que certaines religions qualifiées de mimétiques (comme le Kyangyang) ne sont pas aussi « secondaires », par rapport à une prétendue source primaire (l’Islam ou le Christianisme étant les modèles à imiter), que nous pourrions intuitivement le supposer à première vue. L’imitation fait partie intégrante de l’action et de l’évolution humaines, et aussi paradoxal que cela puisse paraître, et que nous sommes tentés de le penser, cela ne s’oppose pas toujours à l’originalité. En observant le fonctionnement du Kyangyang, et la manière dont l’imagination est employée par les prophètes pour faire « progresser » les cultivateurs Balanta vers un possible « nouveau monde », nous touchons peut-être au cœur de ce que signifie être original, du moins en matière de créativité religieuse." @default.
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- W3048352774 title "The shade of religion: Kyangyang and the works of prophetic imagination in Guinea‐Bissau" @default.
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