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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans (Studies of Religion in Africa) - Softcover
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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David Westerlund, Ph.D. (1980) in the History of Religions, Stockholm University, is Professor of the Study of Religions at Södertörn University College in Stockholm. He has published extensively on religions in Africa and the West, including the recent Sufism in Europe and North America (2004), which he has edited.
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'...gedankenreichen, schon edierten Band...' Henryk Kupiszewski, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte, 1993.
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- PublisherBrill
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 9004144331
- ISBN 13 9789004144330
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages237
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African Indigenous Religions And Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans
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