Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa

Introduction
Part I. Religious concepts and concepts about 'religion'
1 Conceptualizing the 'religious'
2 'Translating' religious concepts
Part II. Diversity within religious traditions
3 Diversity of religious thought: a West African example
4 Diversity of religious practice: an East African example
Part III. Religious participation
5 Interacting with spiritual entities and spiritual forces
6 The dynamics of ritual performance
7 Ritual as transformance
Part IV. Religious quests for wellbeing
8 'Probable' histories of an ancestral religious tradition: kubandwa mediumship in lacustrine eastern Africa
9 Initiatory healing associations
10 Religious healing in southern Africa
11 Muslim quests for wellbeing in West Africa
Part V. Knowing and not knowing
12 Epistemologies
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

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• Religião comparativa
• Vida islâmica e prática
• História da religião
• Religiões tribais
• Folclore, mitos e lendas
• Vida e prática cristã

Religious traditions; religious practitioners; spiritual; sub-Saharan African; rituals; kubandwa; Muslim; Christianity; Religious culture; Islam; endogenous religions; cultural expression