Evil In Africa: Encounters With The Everyday

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around t...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Egyptian Mythology A to Z

Egypt's myths are among the earliest in the ancient world. "Egyptian Mythology A to Z, Revised Edition" brings to life the f...

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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...

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The New African Diaspora

The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibl...

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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...

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Living in a landscape of scarcity: Materiality and cosmology in WestAfrica

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Developmentin Neoliberal Kenya

These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter...

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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...

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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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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...

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Living Spirits With Fixed Abodes: The Masterpieces Exhibition Papua NewGuinea National Museum and Art Gallery

On the eve of Papua New Guinea's attainment of independence from Australia, Chief Minister Michael Somare referred to the new nation...

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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...

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Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction

Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta th...

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