Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth-century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt....

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African Origins of The Major World Religions

Reclaiming Afrikan religious precedence / Amon Saba Saakana -- Moses : African influence on Judaism / Yosef Ben-Jochannan -- The Kamitic...

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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans

This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peo...

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Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively ...

4:56 AM

Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism

For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a distinction between one true God and many ...

6:02 AM

Making Spirits: Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religion

Academic analyses of religious phenomena have often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies and prioritized the understanding of reli...

7:54 AM

Ancient Egyptian Tombs: The Culture of Life and Death

This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egypti...

12:31 PM

Ritual: Power, Healing and Community

"The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commen...

4:50 AM

Odun: Discourses, Strategies and Power in the Yoruba Play ofTransformation

A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún ; then the voice falls silent. What is...

5:10 AM

The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt

According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. F...

5:07 AM

The Legacy of Egypt (Legacy Series)

This completely revised edition of a classic study of ancient Egypt takes full account of recent scholarly work. Tracing the values and ac...

3:03 PM

Abusir: Realm of Osiris

At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis there lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after...

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The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: Narratives of the Migrational Journey toIsrael, 1977-1985

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and - motivated by an ancient dream of returning to the lan...

11:23 AM

Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the GreatMigration

Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North an...

6:38 AM

Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in GreatMigration Philadelphia

During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find...

10:40 AM

African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of theSociocultural Dynamics of Faith

This study of atheist African American writers poses a substantive challenge to those who see atheism in despairing and nihilistic terms. ...

3:49 PM

The Ethiopian Prophecy in Black American Letters

For centuries, Psalm 68:31 "Princes shall come forth out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands unto God," also ...

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Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria: Speaking a SacredWorld

How do Santería practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst tensions, disagreements, and competition among them...

9:38 AM

Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money

Why has the home of a Yoruba river goddess become a UNESCO World Heritage site and a global attraction? Every year, tens of thousands of p...

9:20 AM

Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Blacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our ...

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