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African indigenous religions and disease causation : from spiritual beings to living humans / by David Westerlund.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Studies on religion in Africa ; 28.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.Description: viii, 237 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9789004144330 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: African indigenous religions and disease causation.; Online version:: African indigenous religions and disease causation.LOC classification:
  • BL2462.5  .W37
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Contents:
Ethnographic background -- Heavenly beings among the San -- God in Maasai thought -- Sukuma spirits of ancestors -- Kongo spirits or Nkisi -- Yoruba divinities -- Living humans among the San and Maasai -- Witchery among the Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba -- Factors of continuity and change -- Notes on natural causation of disease.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index.

Ethnographic background -- Heavenly beings among the San -- God in Maasai thought -- Sukuma spirits of ancestors -- Kongo spirits or Nkisi -- Yoruba divinities -- Living humans among the San and Maasai -- Witchery among the Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba -- Factors of continuity and change -- Notes on natural causation of disease.

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