African indigenous religions and disease causation : from spiritual beings to living humans /

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This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peoples: the San, Maasai, Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba. Unlike the homogenizing tendencies of many earlier comparative works by scholars of religion, this book highlights...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Westerlund, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:Studies on religion in Africa ; 28.
Temas:
Diseases > Religious aspects.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation.
Religion.
Witchcraft.
Religion
Medicine, African Traditional
Witchcraft
Maladies > Aspect religieux.
Étiologie.
Sorcellerie.
religion (discipline)
witchcraft.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
Diseases > Religious aspects
Godsdiensten.
Medische aspecten.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Religion.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa South of the Sahara
Afrique subsaharienne > Religion.
Afrique subsaharienne.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Afrika.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Ethnographic Background
  • Chapter Two: Heavenly Beings Among the San
  • Chapter Three: God in Maasai Thought
  • Chapter Four: Sukuma Spirits of Ancestors
  • Chapter Five: Kongo Spirits or Nkisi
  • Chapter Six: Yoruba Divinities
  • Chapter Seven: Living Humans Among the San and Maasai
  • Chapter Eight: Witchery Among the Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba
  • Chapter Nine: Factors of Continuity and Change
  • Appendix on Natural Causation of Disease.

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