| Evil in Africa: Encounters with the Everyday Contributor(s): Olsen, William C. (Editor), Van Beek, Walter E. a. (Editor), Burnet, Jennie E. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0253017475 ISBN-13: 9780253017475 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Violence In Society - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 170.96 |
| LCCN: 2015017065 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.31 lbs) 402 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |