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  • Ozain Mystery of the Congo and Yoruba
    Anthony Canty
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    26,09 €

  • African Religion Defined
    Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
    African religion is ancestor worship; it revolves around the dead, now thought to be alive and well in heaven (the Samanadzie) and propitiated by the living on earth. For the Akan, the ancestors’ stool is the emblem of the ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo). Led by their kings and queen mothers as living ancestors, the Akan periodically propitiate the ancestors’ stools housing their ...
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    58,46 €

  • Playing God
    Theodore Gabriel
    Playing God discusses the genre of rituals known as the ‘Teyyam’, extant in the North Malabar region of Kerala State, India. In this elaborately costumed ritual practitioners invoke the spirit of a deity into themselves enabling them to talk to the ‘god’ and invoke his/her blessings and predictions of their future. This book concentrates on the cult of the Muttappan duo of gods...
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    26,88 €

  • Santo Daime
    Andrew Dawson
    Santo Daime: A New World Religion deals with a young, exotic and controversial religious movement. Emerging in the Brazilian Amazon in the 1930s, Santo Daime has since spread to many of the world’s major cities. Santo Daime is a mixture of indigenous, popular Catholic, Afro-Brazilian, esoteric, Spiritist, and new age beliefs and activities. Ritual practice is centred on the con...
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    60,26 €

  • Finding Kluskap
    Jennifer Reid
    The Mi'kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by the mid-seventeenth century, large numbers of Mi'kmaq had converted to Catholicism. Mi'kmaw Catholicism is perhaps best exemplified by the community's regard for the figure of Saint An...
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    32,94 €

  • The Liberatory Thought of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Birt
    The Liberatory Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. is a philosophical anthology which explores Dr. King’s legacy as a philosopher and his contemporary relevance as a thinker-activist. It consists of sixteen chapters organized into four sections: Part I, King within Philosophical Traditions, Part II, King as Engaged Social and Political Philosopher, Part III, King’s Ethics of...
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    163,12 €

  • Oracle of Divination
    MCR El Pensador
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    17,86 €

  • Oracle of Divination
    MCR El Pensador
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    31,95 €

  • Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
    Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume...
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    184,38 €

  • Then We’ll Sing a New Song
    Mary Ann Clark
    Then We’ll Sing a New Song is a fascinating examination of how African religions have shaped belief and practices in America. Not just the story of the development of African American religions or the black church, this book tells the often-unrecognized, but important story of how African religions have shaped religion in America more broadly. Mary Ann Clark introduces readers ...
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    64,11 €

  • The Mongwande Snake Cult
    Sveinung Johnson Moen
    In this book Sveinung Johnson Moen presents a very fascinating subject, a snake cult among the Mongwande people in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Going beyond a mere anthropological description, he brings the subject in relation to the snake concept in Scripture and reflects on the opportunities and fallacies of missionary ministry. Even though his exper...
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    20,32 €

  • Cuentos Negros de Cuba
    Lydia Cabrera
    En esta obra Lydia Cabrera, transcribe y colecciona por puro delei­te el conjunto de leyendas negras de La Habana. Se trata de Cuentos afrocubanos, que aunque están cundidos'de fantasía y ofrecen entre sus protagonistas algunos personajes del panteón yoruba, como Obaogó, Oshún, Ochosí, etc., no son únicamente religiosos. La mayoría entran en la categoría de fábulas de anima­les...
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    20,47 €

  • A Priest's Head, a Drummer's Hands
    Louis Martinie
    THIS EDITION HAS A BLACK AND WHITE INTERIOR...A Priest's Head, A Drummer's Hands is a complete-in-itself first volume in a series of teachings on Voodoo as it has and continues to develop in New Orleans. It contains an Order of Service developed over hundreds of rituals at the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple. This Order follows the steps of birth and can be used to bring ho...
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    16,21 €

  • Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging
    Arkotong Longkumer
    Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India. Drawing upon critical studies of ‘religion’, cultural/ethnic identity, and nationalism, archival research in both India and Britain, and fieldwork in Assam, the book initiates new grounds for unders...
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    64,02 €

  • The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality
    Suzanne Owen
    Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society. Their spirituality has been appropriated on a relatively large scale by Europeans and non-Native Americans, with little concern for the diversity of Native American opinions. Suzanne Owen offers an insight into appropriation that will bring a new understanding and perspective to thes...
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    64,30 €

  • Decolonizing African Religion
    Okot p'Bitek / Okot P’Bitek
    For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African 'religions' per se, but what was worse, African scholars began not to study indigenous African spirituality on its own terms but through European eyes and intellectual categories. Okot p’Bitek, who is best known for Song of Lawino, was one of the fi...
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    19,21 €

  • Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire
    Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
    Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire is the companion to Pomba Gira. Together they give the most complete account of this sorcerous cult. Exu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, European demonology and Kardec’s Spiritsm, erupting in a uniquely Brazilian cult of practical magical action. Spells, workings, hierarchies and origins are all given in detail.This is an essen...
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    35,51 €

  • Dread Jesus
    William David Spencer
    Dread Jesus explores the black, dreadlocked Jesus in the teachings of Rastafari.Is Rastafari simply a bizarre Christian cult, destined to fade if the Emporer Haile Selassie never reappears? Or could it become a vibrant Two-Thirds World reform movement, recalling Christianity to its original non-oppressing gospel for all people?Rigorously researched, William David Spencer ’s uni...
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    26,09 €

  • African Spirituality
    Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
    African spirituality among the Akan people of Ghana can be defined as a developmental quest to achieve ancestorhood in heaven (Samanadzie) after first attaining eldership and wisdom in the corporeal world (Wiadzie). The African life, then, is a cycle. A human originates in the Samanadzie as a spiritual personality (?saman) after being joined by a spirit (Sunsum). At birth, a ne...
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    58,70 €

  • Notes Upon the Religion of the Apache Indians - With a Chapter on the Folk-Lore of the Seneca Indians of North America
    John G. Bourke / John GBourke
    The Apache Indians of North America have a rich and intricate religion, revolving around the animals they see and the Earth they revere. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900’s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original ...
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    34,41 €

  • The Sacred Dance
    W. O. E. Oesterley / WOEOesterley
    This work surveys a wide spread of old rites, practised during initiations, puberty, marriages, burials, and other major events of life. Relying on ornamental artwork on pottery and on ancient inscriptions and literature, the author examines, among other topics, Old Testament terms for 'dancing,' and forms of musical accompaniment in the time of the Hebrews; the sacred processi...
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    18,48 €

  • Healers on the Mountain
    PhD Teresa Pijoan
    A unique characteristic of Native American medicine is the belief that each patient holds a different spirit, and that the healing can only work when it affects the individual spirit. Mythology is essential to this healing process. The belief stories within these pages reflect a culture that holds both poignant and alarming lessons. Readers of this book will discover the intrig...
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    19,26 €

  • The Peyote Road
    Thomas C. Maroukis
    An up-to-date history of the Peyote faith that emphasizes Native perspectives Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including...
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    30,71 €

  • Playing God
    Theodore Gabriel
    Playing God discusses the genre of rituals known as the ‘Teyyam’, extant in the North Malabar region of Kerala State, India. In this elaborately costumed ritual practitioners invoke the spirit of a deity into themselves enabling them to talk to the ‘god’ and invoke his/her blessings and predictions of their future. This book concentrates on the cult of the Muttappan duo of gods...
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    115,80 €

  • The Midewiwin
    Walter James Hoffman
    The Midewiwin: Or Grand Medicine Society Of The Ojibwa is a historical book written by Walter James Hoffman and published in 1891. The book provides a comprehensive description of the Midewiwin, which is a secret society of the Ojibwa Native American tribe. The author explores the beliefs, practices, and rituals of this society, which is known for its healing powers and spiritu...
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    31,25 €

  • Fetishes and Monuments
    Roger Sansi
    One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical jo...
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    44,66 €

  • Lowcountry Voodoo
    Terrance Zepke
    When African slaves were brought to the American South to work the plantations, they brought with them their culture, traditions, and religion—including what came to be called voodoo. This unique blend of Christianity, herbalism, and folk magic is still practiced in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.Though a beginners guide, Lowcountry Voodoo offers a surprising wealth of information...
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    8,46 €

  • Women and New and Africana Religions
    Darnise Martin / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason / Oyeronke Olademo
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    68,88 €

  • Nagô Grandma and White Papa
    Beatriz Góis Dantas / Stephen Berg
    Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas’s historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.Dantas compares the formation of Yoruba (Nago) religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian stat...
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    51,39 €

  • Qui a Obstru La Cascade?
    Wauthier De Mahieu
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    51,04 €


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