03420cam a2200349 a 4500 4869776 AUA.1 20180408185953.0 920810s1994 enkab b 101 0 eng 92030302 0435080814 (US) 0435080830 (pbk.) 0852552068 (UK) 0852552076(pbk.) DLC DLC DLC fb----- BL2462.5 .R45 1994 291/.0967 20 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. London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1994. xvi, 512 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University ; v. 4 5939 Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-483) and index. Contents:-Introduction / Walter E.A. van Beek & Thomas D. Blakely -- 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 &1Nganga&2 paradigm / Matthew Schoffeleers -- African religion & Mormon doctrine : comparisons & commonalities / Dennis L. Thomson -- Ifá : a West African cosmological system / Wándé Abímbó̮lá -- The promise of greatness : women & power in an Edo spirit possession cult / Paula G. Ben-Amos -- Candomblé : a socio-political examination of African religion & art in Brazil / Mikelle S. 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 Zaïre / 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 / Terence 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 / compiled by Mark L. Grover. Africa, Sub-Saharan Religion. 5940 Blakely, Thomas D. (Thomas Dustin), 1945- 5941 Beek, W. E. A. van. 5942 Thomson, Dennis L., 1935- 5943 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BOOK BL 2462.5 .R45 1994 1639 1639 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2011-10-11 Bought by JTL 20.00 AUA001833 5 1 BL 2462.5 .R45 1994 AUA001833 2019-04-09 00:00:00 2019-04-09 20.00 2011-10-11 BOOK