(click any section below to continue reading)
Contents
Contents:
Introduction
I. Religion and Its Translatability
1. Translatability in Islam & in Christianity in Africa, L. Sanneh
2. Islam in East African Contexts, A. Nanji
3. Cultural Change & Religious Conversion in West Africa, J.P. Kirby
4. Christ in African Folk Theology, M. Schoffeleers
5. African Religion & Mormon Doctrine Compared, D.L. Thomson
6. Ifa: A West African Cosmological System, W. Ab'mbola
II. Comparisons over Time and Place
7. Women & Power in an Edo Spirit Possession Cult, P.G. Ben-Amos
8. African Religion & Art in Brazil, M.S. Omari
9. Drums of Affliction: Real Phenomenon or Scholarly Chimera?, J.M. Janzen
10. Archaeological Evidence of Traditional African Religious Expression, P. de Maret
11. The Innocent Sorcerer: Coping with Evil in Two African Societies (Kapsiki & Dogon), W.E.A. van Beek
12. Myth & Epic in Central Africa, L. de Heusch
III. Instrumentality of Religion
13. Kimbanguism & the Question of Syncretism in Zaire, W. MacGaffey
14. Jamaa: A Charismatic Movement Revisited, J. Fabian
15. The Dialectic of Conversion in the A.M.E. Church in E. Zimbabwe, 1900-1950, T.O. Ranger
16. Prophetism & Social Change, A. Legesse
17. Gola Womanhood & the Limits of Masculine Omnipotence, W.L. d'Azevedo
18. Male & Female Secret Societies in Northern Sierra Leone, S. Ottenberg
19. Music Performance among the Kpelle of Liberia, R.M. Stone
20. Men's Oratory & Women's Song-Dance in Hemba Funerary Performance, P.A.R. Blakely & T.D. Blakely
Bibliography
Index