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  • African Sacred Spaces
    'biodun J Ogundayo / Julius O Adekunle / Julius O. Adekunle / Julius OAdekunle / ’BioDun J. Ogundayo / ’BioDun JOgundayo
    African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change is a collection of carefully and analytically written essays on different aspects of African sacred spaces. The interaction between the past and present points to Africans’ continuing recognition of certain natural phenomena and places as sacred. Western influence, the introduction of Christianity and Islam, as well as moderni...
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    128,84 €

  • Of Life and Health
    Alexis Bekyane Tengan
    An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions. Consisting of ethnographic descriptions and analyses of six Dagara cultic institutions, each of which deals with different...
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    163,51 €

  • Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
    Juan Javier Rivera Andía
    Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entitie...
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    190,50 €

  • Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference
    Sam Gill
    Across the world from personal relationships to global politics, differences-cultural, religious, racial, gender, age, ability-are at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns. While it is laudable to nurture an environment promoting the tolerance of difference, Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference argues for the higher goal of actually appreciating diffe...
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    128,99 €

  • Debating Witchcraft in Africa
    Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn’t the flood of anthropological publications on the topic counter-productive insofar as it feeds what it pretends to analyse, and even stigmatize? Wouldn’t the social scientists be well advised not to emulate the media and the Evangelical preachers and to avoid bestowing on Africa th...
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    38,81 €

  • Yoruba God of Drumming
    As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the orisha of drumming, the spirit of the wood, or the more obscure Yorùbá praise name AsòròIgi (Wood That Talks). With the growing global importance of orisha rel...
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    49,77 €

  • A Family Conspiracy
    PHYLLIS CHESLER
    An honor killing is the cold-blooded murder of girls and women simply because they are female. Being born female in a shame-and-honor culture is, potentially, a capital crime; every girl has to keep proving that she is not dishonoring her family; even so, an innocent girl can be falsely accused and killed on the spot.Dr. Phyllis Chesler has been studying the nature of honor kil...
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    21,98 €

  • Bonfires of the Culture
    Patricia Lopes Don
    In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of an early period that has remained too long understudied.Drawin...
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    35,36 €

  • Who Do the Ngimurok Say That They Are?
    Kevin Lines
    How do missiologists describe the cosmologies of those that Christianity encounters around the world? Our descriptions often end up filtered through our own Western religious categories. Furthermore, indigenous Christians adopt these Western religious categories. This presents the problem of local Christianities, described by Kwame Bediako as those that ''have not known how to ...
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    32,00 €

  • Who Do the Ngimurok Say That They Are?
    Kevin Lines
    How do missiologists describe the cosmologies of those that Christianity encounters around the world? Our descriptions often end up filtered through our own Western religious categories. Furthermore, indigenous Christians adopt these Western religious categories. This presents the problem of local Christianities, described by Kwame Bediako as those that ''have not known how to ...
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    48,17 €

  • Compañeros, Spanish Edition
    Joe Gatlin / Joel H. Scott / Joel HScott / Nancy Gatlin
    Un jueves de manana en 1981, cuatro mil campesinos, huyendo un escuadron de la muerte salvadoreno patrocinado por los Estados Unidos, trastabillo bajando una ladera por un monte cubierto de follaje, hacia el Rio Lempa. Algunos fueron indiscriminadamente fusilados por las ametralladoras de soldados y helicopteros; otros se ahogaron mientras la corriente los arrastraba por el rio...
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    20,31 €

  • Compañeros, Spanish Edition
    Joe Gatlin / Joel H. Scott / Joel HScott / Nancy Gatlin
    Un jueves de manana en 1981, cuatro mil campesinos, huyendo un escuadron de la muerte salvadoreno patrocinado por los Estados Unidos, trastabillo bajando una ladera por un monte cubierto de follaje, hacia el Rio Lempa. Algunos fueron indiscriminadamente fusilados por las ametralladoras de soldados y helicopteros; otros se ahogaron mientras la corriente los arrastraba por el rio...
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    38,50 €

  • Animism Beyond the Soul
    How might we envision animism through the lens of the 'anthropology of anthropology'? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors. They explore how native epistemologies, which inf...
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    38,44 €

  • Animism Beyond the Soul
    How might we envision animism through the lens of the 'anthropology of anthropology'? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors. They explore how native epistemologies, which inf...
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    39,38 €

  • Grazing and Growing
    Megan Meyers
    This book explores the impact of contextualized worship arts on the development of church ministry and missions in urban churches in Beira, Mozambique. This applied research, which took place over the course of two years, focuses on expanding the song-writing workshop model in an effort to enhance culturally appropriate worship in the local church.Results of this study include ...
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    40,68 €

  • Grazing and Growing
    Megan Meyers
    This book explores the impact of contextualized worship arts on the development of church ministry and missions in urban churches in Beira, Mozambique. This applied research, which took place over the course of two years, focuses on expanding the song-writing workshop model in an effort to enhance culturally appropriate worship in the local church.Results of this study include ...
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    24,51 €

  • The Mandaeans-Baptizers of Iraq and Iran
    Karen Baker
    The secrets of a complex belief system that have sustained the Mandaeans in their centuries-old native lands in Iraq and Iran have been collapsing before their eyes. This little-known Gnostic sect has been hidden from global awareness until now. With a passion for the obscure, Karen Baker has delved into this secret sect, exploring the effects of the turmoil they have faced in ...
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    17,84 €

  • The Mandaeans-Baptizers of Iraq and Iran
    Karen Baker
    The secrets of a complex belief system that have sustained the Mandaeans in their centuries-old native lands in Iraq and Iran have been collapsing before their eyes. This little-known Gnostic sect has been hidden from global awareness until now. With a passion for the obscure, Karen Baker has delved into this secret sect, exploring the effects of the turmoil they have faced in ...
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    35,90 €

  • Our Creator’s Love for Humanity
    Margaret H. Bartholomew / Margaret HBartholomew
    Our Creator's Love for Humanity is a riveting memoir which takes the reader on a journey of self-examination. This book will challenge you to examine what is in your heart as it relates to ongoing tension of Christianity, race, and ethnicity in America. Margaret talks of her own struggles and provides practical solutions for moving towards genuine embrace in making room for...
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    19,05 €

  • Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites
    Eirik Westcoat
    Honor the Gods with the ancient poetic forms!Now, for the first time in perhaps hundreds of years, here is a vast new collection of liturgical poetry for honoring the Aesir and Vanir in the alliterative meters that the Gods and their worshippers used in the Viking Age. To the Gods, poetry is a precious mead — brewed from honey and the blood of wisdom — which was brought to Asga...
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    27,48 €

  • Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites
    Eirik Westcoat
    Honor the Gods with the ancient poetic forms!Now, for the first time in perhaps hundreds of years, here is a vast new collection of liturgical poetry for honoring the Aesir and Vanir in the alliterative meters that the Gods and their worshippers used in the Viking Age. To the Gods, poetry is a precious mead — brewed from honey and the blood of wisdom — which was brought to Asga...
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    19,21 €

  • Witches and Pagans
    Max Dashu
    In this compelling exploration of language, archaeology, and early medieval literature, Max Dashu illuminates hidden cultural heritages. She shows that the old ethnic names for “witch” signify ‘wisewoman,’ ‘prophetess,’ ‘diviner,’ ‘chanter,’ ‘herbalist,’ and ‘healer.’ She fleshes out the oracular ceremonies of the Norse völur (“staff-women”), their incantations and “sitting-out...
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    26,93 €

  • Tribal Ethiopia
    Ingetje Tadros
    The Lower Omo River in south west Ethiopia is home to eight different tribes with a population of about 200,000. These tribes have lived there for centuries. A massive hydroelectric dam and associated land grabs for plantations threaten these tribes of the Lower Omo RiverThe tribes have lived in this area for centuries and have developed techniques to survive in a challenging e...
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    89,33 €

  • Lanka’S Princess
    Kavita Kane
    Surpanakha, Ravan’s famous sister. Ugly and untamed, brutal and brazen-this is often how she is commonly perceived. One whose nose was sliced off by an angry Lakshman and the one who started a war. But was she really just a perpetrator of war? Or was she a victim? Was she ’Lanka’s princess’? Or was she the reason behind its destruction? Surpanakha, which means the woman ’as har...
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    22,12 €

  • African Religion Defined
    Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
    This edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship-with the addition of three new chapters. Beginning with Akan theology and ending with sacrifices, the study examines Akan conception of God, the abosom (gods and goddesses) relative to creation, centrality of the ancestors’ stool as the ultimate religious symbol housing the soul of the Akan, and organized annual propitiat...
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    50,13 €

  • Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman
    Jeanne Christensen
    Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman: Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race shaped a liberation movement propelled by the Caribbean evolution of an African spiritual ethos. Jeanne Christensen proposes that Rastafari represents the most recent reworking of this spiritual ethos, referred to as African religiosity....
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    64,10 €

  • Readings on Religion and Culture in Africa
    This is a book of reading on religion and culture in Africa comprising ten papers by experts in religion and cultural matters and an introductory note by the editor himself. Covered in the volume are papers covering: the impact of secularisation and urbanisation on a most cherished socio-cultural practice of the extended family system of the Isoko people in Nigeria; the traditi...
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    58,35 €

  • Gothic Myths and Legends
    Aelfric Avery
    Gothic Myths and Legends is a modern creative retelling of the surviving ancient Gothic stories and histories as preserved in the writings of ancient Roman historians and Norse sagas. These are combined with some of the author’s own narrative and poetry. The stories have been thoughtfully woven together into one long tale of the Gothic gods, kings and heroes. The story of the G...
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    19,70 €

  • I Only Walk On Water When It Rains
    Patty L. Luckenbach
    Only Walk on Water When It Rains is a guide for mystical cosmic consciousness and questing for unity in the wilderness. It is wisdom through stories and conversation with the great Bear Spirit. The stories and conversation reveal astonishing magic, mystery, miracles and magical song. Meister Eckhart wrote, 'This spirit seeks to be broken through by God.' Source God, the creativ...
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    23,07 €

  • I Only Walk On Water When It Rains
    Patty L. Luckenbach
    Only Walk on Water When It Rains is a guide for mystical cosmic consciousness and questing for unity in the wilderness. It is wisdom through stories and conversation with the great Bear Spirit. The stories and conversation reveal astonishing magic, mystery, miracles and magical song. Meister Eckhart wrote, 'This spirit seeks to be broken through by God.' Source God, the creativ...
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    9,62 €


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