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.
| Uniform Title: | Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ;
v. 4. |
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| Language: | English |
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London : Portsmouth, N.H. :
J. Currey ; Heinemann,
1994.
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| Series: | Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ;
v. 4. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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 Nganga paradigm / Matthew Schoffeleers
- African religion & Mormon doctrine : comparisons & commonalities / Dennis L. Thomson
- Ifa : a West African cosmological system / Wande Abimbola
- The promise of greatness : women & power in an Edo spirit possession cult / Paula Grishick Ben-Amos
- Candomble : a socio-political examination of African religion & art in Brazil / Mikelle Smith 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 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, & 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 Hemba Funerary performance / Pamela A. R. Blakely, Thomas D. Blakely.