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Religion in Africa : experience & expression / edited by Thomas D. Blakely, Walter E.A. van Beek, Dennis L. Thomson with the assistance of Linda Hunter Adams, Merrill E. Oates. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ; v. 4.Publication details: London : J. Currey ; [(c)1994.; Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Heinemann, [(c)1994.Description: xvi, 512 pages : illistrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0435080814
  • 0435080830
  • 0852552068
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL2462.5.R455 1994
  • BL2462.5.T482.R455 1994
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Contents:
Translatability in Islam and in Christianity in Africa : a thematic approach Lamin Sanneh Beginnings and encounters : Islam in East African contexts Azim Nanji Cultural change and religious conversion in West Africa Jon P. Kirby Christ in African folk theology : the Nganga paradigm Matthew Schoffeleers African religion and Mormon doctrine : comparisons and commonalities Dennis L. Thomson Ifa : a West African cosmological system Wande Abimbola The promise of greatness : women and power in an Edo spirit possession cult Paula Grishick Ben-Amos Candomble : a socio-political examination of African religion and art in Brazil Mikelle Smith Omari Drums of affliction : real phenomenon or scholarly chimera? John M. Janzen Archaeological and other prehistoric evidence of traditional African religious expression Pierre de Maret The innocent sorcerer : coping with evil in two African societies (Kapsiki and Dogon) Walter E. A. van Beek Myth and epic in Central Africa Luc de Heusch Kimbanguism and the question of syncretism in Zaire Wyatt MacGaffey Jamaa : a charismatic movement revisited Johannes Fabian Protestant missions in Africa : the dialectic of conversion in the American Methodist Episcopal church in Eastern Zimbabwe, 1900-1950 Terrence O. Ranger Prophetism, democharisma, and social change Asmarom Legesse Gola womanhood and the limits of masculine omnipotence Warren L. d'Azevedo Male and female secret societies among the Bafodea Limba of Northern Sierra Leone Simon Ottenberg Bringing the extraordinary into the ordinary : music performance among the Kpelle of Liberia Ruth M. Stone Ancestors, "witchcraft", and foregrounding the poetic : men's oratory and women's song-dance in Hemba Funerary performance Pamela A. R. Blakely, Thomas D. Blakely.
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Translatability in Islam and in Christianity in Africa : a thematic approach Lamin Sanneh Beginnings and encounters : Islam in East African contexts Azim Nanji Cultural change and religious conversion in West Africa Jon P. Kirby Christ in African folk theology : the Nganga paradigm Matthew Schoffeleers African religion and Mormon doctrine : comparisons and commonalities Dennis L. Thomson Ifa : a West African cosmological system Wande Abimbola The promise of greatness : women and power in an Edo spirit possession cult Paula Grishick Ben-Amos Candomble : a socio-political examination of African religion and art in Brazil Mikelle Smith Omari Drums of affliction : real phenomenon or scholarly chimera? John M. Janzen Archaeological and other prehistoric evidence of traditional African religious expression Pierre de Maret The innocent sorcerer : coping with evil in two African societies (Kapsiki and Dogon) Walter E. A. van Beek Myth and epic in Central Africa Luc de Heusch Kimbanguism and the question of syncretism in Zaire Wyatt MacGaffey Jamaa : a charismatic movement revisited Johannes Fabian Protestant missions in Africa : the dialectic of conversion in the American Methodist Episcopal church in Eastern Zimbabwe, 1900-1950 Terrence O. Ranger Prophetism, democharisma, and social change Asmarom Legesse Gola womanhood and the limits of masculine omnipotence Warren L. d'Azevedo Male and female secret societies among the Bafodea Limba of Northern Sierra Leone Simon Ottenberg Bringing the extraordinary into the ordinary : music performance among the Kpelle of Liberia Ruth M. Stone Ancestors, "witchcraft", and foregrounding the poetic : men's oratory and women's song-dance in Hemba Funerary performance Pamela A. R. Blakely, Thomas D. Blakely.

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