African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and CommunityDraws upon recent fieldwork to present a variety of methodological approaches to the study of African religious history as a structural whole. |
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AFRICAN RELIGIONS AND EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY | 5 |
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES | 11 |
CREATION MYTHS | 24 |
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Adro African religions Ajak Amma ancestors archetypal Buganda ceremonies Chilembwe Christianity Church clan colonial concept cosmic Creator cult culture death deceased Deng destiny Dinka diviner Dogon earth Ekuphakameni European EVANS-PRITCHARD father festival fishing-spear Ganda gods GRIAULE Hausa healing human Ibid Idowu Igbo illness Imana initiates Islam Kikuyu Kimbangu king kingdom kingship Kinjikitile land Lienhardt lineage living London Longar Lugbara Mahdi Maji Maji MARCEL GRIAULE Mau Mau Middleton missionary moral movement Muslim Mwari myth mythical Ncwala Ndembu Nhialic Nommo Nuer nyama Nyikang oath Obatala Odudua Ogun Ogun's Olorun Ondua original orisha Oshitelu Oxford University Press Pale Fox phase political prayer priests prophets rebellion religious Rembe represent rites ritual royal sacred sacrifice scholars Shango Shehu Shembe Shilluk shrine Simon Kimbangu social society soul spear spirit Sudan supreme symbolic traditional Turner Tutsi village Western witchcraft witches words Yoruba Zulu