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245 00 a| Religion in Africa :b| experience & expression /c| edited by Thomas D. Blakely, Walter E.A. van Beek, Dennis L. Thomson with the assistance of Linda Hunter Adams, Merrill E. Oates.;

300 a| xvi, 512 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 23 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ;v| v. 4;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-483) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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700 1 a| Blakely, Thomas D.q| (Thomas Dustin),d| 1945-=| ^A368890;

700 1 a| Beek, W. E. A. van.=| ^A229729;

700 1 a| Thomson, Dennis L.,d| 1935-=| ^A368891;

830 0 a| Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ;v| v. 4.=| ^A203202;

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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.

Other author	Blakely, Thomas D. (Thomas Dustin), 1945-
Other author	Beek, W. E. A. van.
Other author	Thomson, Dennis L., 1935-
Format	Book
Publication Info	London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1994.
Description	xvi, 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Africa, Sub-Saharan--Religion.

Series	Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ; v. 4 Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ; v. 4. ^A203202
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.
Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-483) and index.
LCCN	92030302
ISBN	0435080814 (US)
ISBN	0435080830 (pbk.)
ISBN	0852552068 (UK)

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