TY - BOOK AU - Westerlund,David TI - African indigenous religions and disease causation: from spiritual beings to living humans T2 - Studies of religion in Africa, SN - 9789004144330 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BL2462.5 .W37 PY - 2006/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Diseases KW - Religious aspects KW - Causes and theories of causation KW - Religion KW - Africa South of the Sahara KW - Medicine, African Traditional KW - Witchcraft KW - Godsdiensten KW - gtt KW - Medische aspecten KW - swd KW - Krankheit KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Afrika KW - Schwarzafrika N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanford/Doc?id=10234900 ER -