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Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 77.00Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imagination. These magical beliefs and practices have figured in literary works by such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed, and they have been central to numerous films, such as The Skeleton Key. Written... more...
African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora, and gendered societies. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars... more...
African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95This book presents a unique exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African... more...
Religion Crossing Boundaries
BRILL 2010; US$ 146.00The essays in this volume illustrates the variety and power of predominantly pentecostal-charismatic movements between Western and African religious actors and groups that has developed across the past twenty years. In so doing, it also highlights the dramatic change in global "migration" patterns as a result of relatively inexpensive air... more...
Popvirus
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 28.75Er waart een popvirus door het land. Steeds meer sferen in de samenleving lijken gepopulariseerd te worden. Religie vindt een nieuwe weg op de videowebsite GodTube.com; debatten over islam en integratie worden voor een breed en jong publiek gebracht in televisieseries als Dunya en Desie; HEMA-posters en videoclips rukken op in kunstmusea. Soms gebeurt... more...
Religion in America Since 1945
Columbia University Press 2005; US$ 29.99Moving far beyond the realm of traditional "church history," Patrick Allitt here offers a vigorous and erudite survey of the broad canvas of American religion since World War II. Identifying the major trends and telling moments within major denominations and also in less formal religious movements, he asks how these religious groups have shaped, and... more...
Tongnaab
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 19.95For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi... more...
The Quaker Way
John Hunt Publishing 2013; US$ 9.99Although fairly well known, Quakerism is not well understood. The purpose of this book is to make it intelligible, to explain how it works. more...
Pillars of Faith
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95At the close of the twentieth century the United States was, by all accounts, among the most religious of modern Western nations. Pillars of Faith describes the diversity of tradition and the commonality of organizational strategy that characterize the more than 300,000 congregations in the United States, arguing that they provide the social bonds,... more...
Myths & Legends of the Polynesians
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 37.50Myths & Legends of the Polynesians is an account of the history, art and mythology of the Polynesian races, this stirring book glows like a beacon on a South Pacific island. more...









