Religion in Africa : experience & expression

This is the first major collection for over a decade on the subject of African religion.

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