Table of Contents: African traditional religions

 

diverse, various regions of Africa

dreaming, religion and society in Africa

songs from the sky -- African

modernity and its malcontents

divination and healing

 

Nile river

Hadandowa Beja in Kassala, Sudan

 

changing masters T.umbura cult in Sudan

pt. I "T.umbura People"

pt.s II-III "T.umbura Spirit"; "T.umbura Process"

 

middle & upper Niger river

prayer has spoiled everything Mawri Hausa

1-3. "Power & Identity"; "Lost Rituals"; "Socializing the Spirits"

4-5. "Quotidian Practice"; "Baboule Spirits"

6-8. "Kasuwa"; "Mirrors of Mangu"; "Rain-Spirits"

 

in sorcery's shadow Sonhay

fusion of the worlds Sonhay

cinematic griot mostly Sonhay

 

Al-geria & Morocco

those who touch Tuareg

spirit possession Tuareg

traveling spirit masters Morocco

 

Grain Coast

Mende religion

way of the elders Mande

 

Gold Coast

politics of divination Sisala

Akan religion

As^anti world of the dead

sacred sites E.we.

 

possession, ecstasy, and law in E.we. vodun

1-2. "Introduction"; "Gorovodu families"

3-5. "Atikevodun"; "Northern slaves"; "Who possesseth whom?"

6-7. "Personhood in Afa"; "Destinies"

 

Slave Coast

Afro-Caribbean religionsmiscellany

dancing wisdom Afro-Caribbean

worldview, the oris^a-s, and santeri`a in Cuba

santeri`a the religion in Cuba

Yoruba deity-sequences

 

central Africa

iboga bwiti cult in Kamerun & in Gabon

anthology of Kongo religion

Lemba cult in Kongo

book on palo (in Cuba) from Angola

the Kongo

Mayombe (in Cuba) from Katanga

 

east-central Africa

Luo religion in Kenya

pt. II, cap. 3 rituals

pt. III magic

 

Kaguru modes of thought of Tanganyika

blood, milk, and death Zaramo of Tanganyika

the mind possessed Batuke (variant in Brazil) etc.

 

where humans and spirits meet in Zanzibar -- humans possessed by Satan

1-3. "Introduction"; "Zanzibar"; "Possession"

4. "Makabila"

5-6. "Human concerns"; "Self & other"

7-8. "Gendre"; "Gendred spirits"

 

southern Africa

some spirits heal Lungu in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)

Tonga religious life in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)

Karanga shamanism in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

San spirituality in Kalahari

women like meat !Kun in Kalahari

called to heal Swazi shamanic healers

 

external weblinks on African religions

 

 

 

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