| Description |
ix, 307 p. maps. 26 cm. |
| Note |
Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the University of Dar es Salaam and the African Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, and held in Dar es Salaam in June 1970. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Methods for the reconstruction of early religious history: Archaeology, ritual and religion / Merrick Posnansky -- Language evidence and religious history / Christopher Ehret -- Myth and the history of African religion / Michael Gilsenan -- pt. 2. Cults of kingship: The history and political role of the M'Bona cult among the Mang'anja / Matthew Schoffeleers -- A history of Lozi religion to the end of the nineteenth century / Mutumba Mainga -- pt. 3. The interaction of religious and political innovation: The development of religious thought and centres among the Pare / Isaria Kimambo, C.K. Omari -- On the making of a sanctuary: being some thoughts on the history of religion in Padhola / Bethwell A. Ogot -- pt. 4. The historical study of rites of transition and of spirit possession cults: Symbolism, ritual and history: an examination of the work of Victor Turner / Aylward Shorter -- pt. 5. The nineteenth-century crisis and religious systems in East and Central Africa: Nyakyusa cults and politics in the later nineteenth-century / Marcia Wright -- Towards a history of the expansion of Islam in East Africa: the matrilineal peoples of the southern interior / Edward A. Alpers -- Kinjikitile and the ideology of Maji Maji / C.G.K. Gwassa -- pt. 6. Interactions between African religion and Christianity in the twentieth century: Missionary adaptation of African religious institutions: the Masasi case / t. O. Ranger -- The resistance of the Nyau societies to the Roman Catholic missions in colonial Malawi / Matthew Schoffeleers, Ian Linden. |
| Subject |
Africa -- Religion -- Congresses.
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Afrique -- Religion -- Congrès. |
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Godsdiensten. |
| Added Author |
Ranger, T. O.
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Kimambo, Isaria N.
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Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam.
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University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center.
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| ISBN |
0520022068 |
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9780520022065 |
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