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Robert M. Baum is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Religion at Dartmouth College. He is author of
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
1. Prophets, Gender, and Religious Change among the Diola of Senegambia
2. The Diola: An Ethnographic Introduction
3. Koonjaen, Felupe, and Diola Prophets in Precolonial Senegambia
4. Women Prophets, Colonization, and the Creation of Community Shrines of Emitai, 1890-1913
5. Prophetism at the Peak of Colonial Rule, 1914-1939
6. Alinesitoué Diatta and the Crisis of the War Years, 1939-1944
7. The Prophetic Teachings of Alinesitoué, Her Successors, and a Contested Diola Prophetic Tradition
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Robert M. Baum is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Religion at Dartmouth College. He is author of
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia.
Summary
Looking specifically at the work of the most famous Diola woman prophet, Alinesitoue, Baum addresses the history of prophecy in West Africa and its impact on colonialism, the development of local religious traditions, and the role of women in religious communities.
