Author: Robert Hamill NassauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Fetichism in West Africa
Author: Robert Hamill NassauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Fetichism in West Africa
Author: Robert Hamill NassauPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Fetichism in West Africa" (Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions) by Robert Hamill Nassau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Records of the Past
Author: The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910
Author: Brian StanleyPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802863604
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Studies in the History of Christian Missions/R. E. Frykenberg and Brian Stanley, series editors/ The World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910 has come down in history as a unique event in the history of the Protestant missionary movement. Brian Stanley s book gives us a full and comprehensive account of the conference, doing so from the perspective of developments in the hundred years since the conference. His study should serve not only as a work of history but also as a work of theological reflection about mission as an ongoing international movement. I welcome this book as an important resource in the church s self-understanding and in its engagement with the world. Lamin Sanneh/Yale University/ Edinburgh 1910 laid the foundations of interdenominational understanding for the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century. . . . With impeccable scholarship, Brian Stanley has written a thorough and revealing analysis of this epoch-making conference. David Bebbington/University of Stirling/ An accomplished study revealing Stanley s deep scholarship and wide knowledge of the modern missionary movement. This book will surely become both a missionary and an ecumenical classic. David M. Thompson/Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge/ This long-awaited book is the definitive history of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. Stanley s thorough scholarship and elegant prose bring the conference to life and make a case for its enduring importance to the history of world Christianity. Scholars of missions, ecumenism, world religions, education, and Christian internationalism will find this superb study essential for their work. Dana L. Robert/Boston University School of Theology
Re-cognizing W.E.B. Du Bois in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Mary KellerPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881460773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Magical Advice Pt. 6, from Mysticalgod
Author: Authentic Fakes
Author: David ChidesterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520242807
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"In this dazzling book, Chidester moves effortlessly and insightfully between the serious and solemn and the playful and humorous. The case studies are so very fresh and interesting, and he brings a wonderfully nuanced eye to the material."—Edward T. Linenthal, author of The Unfinished Bombing "Chidester's analysis of popular religion and culture is the most extensive and penetrating that exists."—Wade Clark Roof, author of Spiritual Marketplace "This book is impressively wide-ranging in the scope of its discussion, adding a global dimension for a vantage point that makes it quite unique."—Bruce Forbes, coeditor of Religion and Popular Culture in America
Matter, Magic, and Spirit
Author: David MurrayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202872
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and African Americans have long been sources of fascination and curiosity, owing to their marked difference from the religious traditions of white writers and researchers. Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and magical beliefs of Native Americans and African Americans have been represented in a range of discourses including anthropology, comparative religion, and literature. Though these beliefs were widely dismissed as primitive superstition and inferior to "higher" religions like Christianity, distinctions were still made between the supposed spiritual capacities of the different groups. David Murray's analysis is unique in bringing together Indian and African beliefs and their representations. First tracing the development of European ideas about both African fetishism and Native American "primitive belief," he goes on to explore the ways in which the hierarchies of race created by white Europeans coincided with hierarchies of religion as expressed in the developing study of comparative religion and folklore through the nineteenth century. Crucially this comparative approach to practices that were dismissed as conjure or black magic or Indian "medicine" points as well to the importance of their cultural and political roles in their own communities at times of destructive change. Murray also explores the ways in which Indian and African writers later reformulated the models developed by white observers, as demonstrated through the work of Charles Chesnutt and Simon Pokagon and then in the later conjunctions of modernism and ethnography in the 1920s and 1930s, through the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Zitkala Sa, and others. Later sections demonstrate how contemporary writers including Ishmael Reed and Leslie Silko deal with the revaluation of traditional beliefs as spiritual resources against a background of New Age spirituality and postmodern conceptions of racial and ethnic identity.
Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
Author: Robert Hamill NassauPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales" by Robert Hamill Nassau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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