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The Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions covers the religious movements and churches of sub-Saharan Africa, North and South America and the Caribbean. The wide-ranging nature of the book includes religions which have their origin in the African Diaspora as well as discussing those which are products of contact between major world ...
Providing an overview of significant topics and trends in the anthropology of religion, this work examines the varied manifestations of religion in diverse cultural contexts. Among the topics covered are Shamanism, snake handling and rituals in particular cultural traditions.
This text paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration, it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both on ...
This collection is intended to provide a dialogue between social scientists and religious studies scholars. Anthropologists need to become more conversant in Western and non-Western theological systems, and these essays are a step in that direction.
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