Traditional African religions and spiritual beliefs

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

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

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

This book highlights the complex identity crises among many Christians as they negotiate their new identities, religious ideas and convictions as both Christians and members of Nigerian-African societies of indigenous religious traditions and identities.

This book highlights the complex identity crises among many Christians as they negotiate their new identities, religious ideas and convictions as both Christians and members of Nigerian-African societies of indigenous religious traditions and identities.

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent.

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent.

First Published in 1968.

First Published in 1968.

First Published in 1968.

First Published in 1968.

This work describes the beliefs, customs and traditions of this tribe from the Ekat district.

This work describes the beliefs, customs and traditions of this tribe from the Ekat district.

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

A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "e;Europeans"e; of the colonial epoch.

A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "e;Europeans"e; of the colonial epoch.

Focussing on the mechanics of social change and the interaction between ethnic groups, cultures, structures and value systems the background questions of ecology, demography and history are also examined and the process of urbanization and rural revolution described.

Focussing on the mechanics of social change and the interaction between ethnic groups, cultures, structures and value systems the background questions of ecology, demography and history are also examined and the process of urbanization and rural revolution described.

Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range of African societies, this volume allows similarities and differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and wealth.

Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range of African societies, this volume allows similarities and differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and wealth.

Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services.

Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services.

First Published in 2000.

First Published in 2000.

This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism.

This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism.

Written for therapists, scholars, clergy, students, and those with an interest in non-traditional healing practices, this book tells the story of Bradford Keeney, the first non-African to be inducted as a shaman in the Kung Bushman and Zulu cultures.

Written for therapists, scholars, clergy, students, and those with an interest in non-traditional healing practices, this book tells the story of Bradford Keeney, the first non-African to be inducted as a shaman in the Kung Bushman and Zulu cultures.

This book explores the kinds of Christian service or diaconia that develop in non-institutionalized practices for supporting survivors of indigenous ritual servitude or Trokosi in Africa.

This book explores the kinds of Christian service or diaconia that develop in non-institutionalized practices for supporting survivors of indigenous ritual servitude or Trokosi in Africa.

This book offers a unique comparative study of ubuntu, a dominant ethical theory in African philosophy, and western monotheism.

This book offers a unique comparative study of ubuntu, a dominant ethical theory in African philosophy, and western monotheism.

The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication.

The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication.

Ever since the emergence of human culture, people and animals have co-existed in close proximity.

Ever since the emergence of human culture, people and animals have co-existed in close proximity.

This book reflects on major themes present at the interface between religion and human security in Africa.

This book reflects on major themes present at the interface between religion and human security in Africa.

This book approaches perceptions of Robert Gabriel Mugabe within Zimbabwe and beyond during his period in power and towards the end of his time in government.

This book approaches perceptions of Robert Gabriel Mugabe within Zimbabwe and beyond during his period in power and towards the end of his time in government.

This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon.

This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon.

Waking Up to God's Missionary CallIn the pages of this book, Rev.

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

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance.

Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions.

Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village.

This book and accompanying compact disc provide a rare excursion in the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants to South Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial connections.

Against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Orleans, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau disentangles the complex threads of the legend surrounding the famous Voudou priestess.