ENGLISH

African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation

By D. , Westerlund

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2006
ISBN
9004144331, 9789004144330, 9789047407690
Open Library ID
OL9085214M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2131915 bytes)
Series
Studies of Religion in Africa
Pages
240\249
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This comparative and historical work provides rich material on religion and disease etiologies among five African peoples (San, Maasai, Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba) and discusses possible reasons for an important shift from spiritual beings such as deities to living humans like witches as agents of disease.

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