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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ; v. 4Publication details: London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1994.Description: xvi, 512 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0435080814 (US)
  • 0435080830 (pbk.)
  • 0852552068 (UK)
  • 0852552076(pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291/.0967 20
LOC classification:
  • BL2462.5 .R45 1994
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BL 2462.5 .R45 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA001833 Available AUA001833

Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-483) and index.

Contents:-Introduction / Walter E.A. van Beek & Thomas D. Blakely -- Translatability in Islam & in Christianity in Africa : a thematic approach / Lamin Sanneh -- Beginnings & encounters : Islam in East African contexts / Azim Nanji -- Cultural change & religious conversion in West Africa / Jon P. Kirby -- Christ in African folk theology : the &1Nganga&2 paradigm / Matthew Schoffeleers -- African religion & Mormon doctrine : comparisons & commonalities / Dennis L. Thomson -- Ifá : a West African cosmological system / Wándé Abímbó̮lá -- The promise of greatness : women & power in an Edo spirit possession cult / Paula G. Ben-Amos -- Candomblé : a socio-political examination of African religion & art in Brazil / Mikelle S. Omari -- Drums of affliction : real phenomenon or scholarly chimera? / John M. Janzen -- Archaeological & other prehistoric evidence of traditional African religious expression / Pierre de Maret -- The innocent sorcerer : coping with evil in two African societies (Kapsiki & Dogon) / Walter E.A. van Beek -- Myth & epic in Central Africa / Luc de Heusch -- Kimbanguism & the question of syncretism in Zaïre / 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 / Terence O. Ranger -- Prophetism, democharisma, & social change / Asmarom Legesse -- Gola womanhood & the limits of masculine omnipotence / Warren L. d'Azevedo -- Male & 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," & foregrounding the poetic : men's oratory & women's song-dance in Hêmbá funerary performance / Pamela A.R. Blakely & Thomas D. Blakely -- Bibliography / compiled by Mark L. Grover.