Traditional African religions and spiritual beliefs

This book is a powerful first-hand account of religious ministry reaching out to heal the lives of desperate people who come to the United States, often illegally, seeking a better life.

The first comprehensive presentation of the core teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen as told by the Tribal Elders *; Reveals how the Bushmen are able to receive direct transmissions of God's love for healing and spiritual transformation *; Explores tribal legends and teaching tales, the importance of dreams and animals, and the origins of their dances, rituals, and ceremonies Step into the imaginative realm of one of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth, the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi Bushmen.

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumi/Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine.

This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa.

Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society.

A classic question in studies of ritual is how ritual performances achieve-or fail to achieve-their effects.

In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height.

This book is the first in-depth study of the lived experiences of queer Christian clergy in an African context.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia.

In this wide-ranging book Paul Christopher Johnson explores the changing, hidden face of the Afro-Brazilian indigenous religion of Candomble.

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Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts.

Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India.

This volume reveals how religion interfaces with inequality in different African contexts.

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists.

This volume brings to the fore the intersections of religion, gender and sustainable development in 21st century Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective.

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics.

In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque.

This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847.

The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century.

White settlers saw land for the taking.

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these forest traditions.

The largest religion begun, organized, and directed by and for Native Americans, Peyotism includes the use of peyote in its ceremonies.

Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion.

In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom.

Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans.

African religion is ancestor worship; it revolves around the dead, now thought to be alive and well in heaven (the Samanadzie) and propitiated by the living on earth.

This book explores the multifaceted realities of religious conversion, challenging conventional notions of faith, identity, and change.

In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance.

Dread Talk examines the effects of Rastafarian language on Creole in other parts of the Carribean, its influence in Jamaican poetry, and its effects on standard Jamaican English.

Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society.

This book is the first in-depth study of the lived experiences of queer Christian clergy in an African context.

Indigenous religions are the majority of the world's religions.

Make a pilgrimage into your soul.

The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania.

American Indian tribes have long been recognized as "e;domestic, dependent nations"e; within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories.

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics.

Pentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity.

At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert.

This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.

This book explores the multifaceted realities of religious conversion, challenging conventional notions of faith, identity, and change.

Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi's personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s.

"e;Do not begrudge the white man his presence on this land.

This volume reveals how religion interfaces with inequality in different African contexts.

In a spiritual autobiography shaped by years of living with a band of Salish Indian people after the Vietnam War, Tom Harmer shares his hard-won knowledge of their world and the nature spirits that govern it.

Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.