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 Blakely, Thomas D. (Thomas Dustin), 1945-

Imprint:London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1994.

Descriptionxvi, 512 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Note:"This book stems from a conference entitled 'Religion in Africa: the variety of religious experience in sub-Sarhan Africa' held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, 22-25 October 1986." -- Pref.

Note: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 -- Ifá : a West African cosmological system / Wándé 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 Hêmbá Funerary performance / Pamela A.R. Blakely, Thomas D. Blakely.

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

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