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This book examines the history of religions in Africa from the burial practices of the earliest humans to the rise of centralized theocratic kingdoms like ancient Egypt up to the rise of Islam in the Seventh Century.
Sommario
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Before Adam and Eve: African Religions from the Dawn of Humanity to the Neolithic Revolution
- Chapter 3: A Religious History of Ancient Egypt: From Unification to the Reforms of Akhenaten1
- Chapter 4: Not out of Egypt: Africa from 3200 to 1200 bce
- Chapter 5: Egypt and the Nile Valley before the Roman Occupation
- Chapter 6: Beyond the Nile Basin: African Religious History from 1300 bce to the Dawn of the Common Era
- Chapter 7: Egyptian Religious Traditions under Foreign Domination: From the Roman Conquest to the Arab Conquest
- Chapter 8: North and Northeast Africa in the Age of Roman and Byzantine Domination: From the First Century bce to the Lesser Hijra
- Chapter 9: The Sahara and the South: African Religious History from the Beginnings of the Common Era to the First Hijra
- Chapter 10: Conclusion
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Robert M. Baum chairs the Department of African and African American Studies and is a professor in that department and the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author of two other books, the award-winning Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religon and Society in Precolonial Senegambia and West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoue and the Diola Prophetic Tradition. He served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa for six years.
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This book examines the history of religions in Africa from the burial practices of the earliest humans to the rise of centralized theocratic kingdoms like ancient Egypt up to the rise of Islam in the Seventh Century.
Testo aggiuntivo
This ambitious, continent-wide investigation into African religious history from the beginning of time is written in an accessible and engaging manner and can be enjoyed by the novice and expert alike. Baum's dataset and methodology are remarkable. He draws on a treasure-trove of sources-archaeological, linguistic, and oral, tree rings, grave sites, rock art, rituals--to put to rest cynical views about the persistence of indigenous African religions following the institution of 'a hegemonic Christian tradition.' Ancient African Religions is the first of its kind.
