West Africa''s Women of God - Alinesitoue and the Diola Prophetic Tradition

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.

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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

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Info autore

Robert M. Baum

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert M Baum, Robert M. Baum, Baum Robert M
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.11.2015
• EAN: 9780253017888
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01788-8
• Pagine: 306
• Serie: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni