Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History

by David M. Gordon

Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits as exerting power in the visible world, these beliefs form the basis for individual and collective actions. Focusing on the history of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821420240
• ISBN13: 9780821420249
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"