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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: London : J. Currey ; (c)1994.; Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Heinemann, (c)1994.Description: xvi, 512 pages : illistrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
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LOC classification:
  • BL2462 .R455 1994
  • BL2462
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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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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction BL2462.5.R45 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 31923000840534

"This book stems from a conference...held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, 22-25 October 1986."

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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