Mary, André. -- Le défi du syncrétisme : le travail symbolique de la religion d'Eboga (Gabon). Paris, Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1999, 513 p.

In this remarkable study, at once nuanced and intense, the author sets aside the usual modes of response to religious syncretism, embarking instead on a wideranging theoretical inquiry which is as illuminating as it is, in the end, inconclusive. It will not do, he says, to explain the mixture of Christian and indigenous traits in the religious complex known as Bwiti by the ignorance of its practitioners, or to see it as paganism inadequately masked in sheep's clothing. Nor may we avoid ..