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Books on: west african religion

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Oedipus and Job in West African Religion

Book by Meyer Fortes; University Press, 1959

Subjects:

Africa, West--Religion, Fate And Fatalism, Tallensi (African People)--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

OEDIPUS AND JOB IN WEST AFRICAN RELIGION OEDIPUS AND JOB IN WEST AFRICAN RELIGION BY MEYER FORTES William Wyse...Indeed one of the characteristic marks of West African religions, as compared with other African religions...
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West African Regional Cooperation and Development

Book by Julius Emeka Okolo, Stephen Wright; Westview Press, 1990

Subjects:

Africa, West--Economic Integration, Africa, West--Economic Policy, Economic Community Of West African States

Collections: Entire Library

...Africa. This is a refreshing and thoughtful approach to religion, which is often studied either in terms of conflict...population and which has followers in virtually all of the West African states. Miles is convincing in his argument that Islam...
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Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century

Book by Diane Frost; Liverpool University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Alien Labor, African--Great Britain--Liverpool--History, Freetown (Sierra Leone)--Social Conditions, Great Britain--Emigration And Immigration--History, Kru (African People)--England--Liverpool--Social Conditions, Kru (African People)--Liberia--History, Kru (African People)--Sierra Leone--Freetown--Social Conditions, Liverpool (England)--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

Frost reclaims the forgotten history of a group of West Africans, the Kru, who as ship’s laborers and seafarers contributed greatly to British colonial trade with West Africa. "Ms. Frost provides us with an interesting account of this exceptionally mobile group of Africans... she is able to ...
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Frost reclaims the forgotten history of a group of West Africans, the Kru, who as ship’s laborers and seafarers contributed greatly to British colonial trade with West Africa. "Ms. Frost provides us with an interesting account of this exceptionally mobile group of Africans... she is able to connect the past with the present not only by using archival material but also recently conducted interviews."—International Migration Review
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The Mende of Sierra Leone: A West African People in Transition

Book by K. L. Little; Routledge & K. Paul, 1951

Subjects:

Mende (African People)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...B. Wallis, The Advance of our West African Empire . 2 i.e. mainly...B. Wallis, The Advance of our West African Empire ; see also "The Sierra...Sierra Leone Battalion of the Royal West African Frontier Force . 2 ibid...
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West African Studies

Book by Mary H. Kingsley; Macmillan, 1899

Subjects:

Africa, West

Collections: History, Entire Library

...again to West Africa, and...men in the African Forest Belt...connection between Religion and Law I...SYSTEM IN WEST AFRICA...AFRICAN PROPERTY...CUSTOMS, RELIGION, TRADE, ETC...study early religion and law...fishes, was the West Coast of...things West African. Dirt and...

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Journal Articles on: west african religion

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Jean Allman and John Parker, Tongnaab: The History of a West African God

Journal article by Jeff Grischow; Africa, Vol. 77, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...PARKER, Tongnaab: the history of a West African god. Bloomington, IN: Indiana...two important arguments: that religion provided a space for African...establish the authors argument about religion and African agency. Chapter 1 investigates...
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Judaic Threads in the West African Tapestry: No More Forever?

Journal article by Labelle Prussin; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 88, 2006

Subjects:

African art--Analysis, Art, African--Analysis, Art, Jewish--Influence, Jewish art--Influence, Tapestry--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...other--swept over the West African canvas for centuries...and indigenous African religions, as well as etymological...1 and 2, History of Religions 8, no. 3 (1969): 181...Birmingham: Center of West African Studies, 1989), 138-51...
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Healing the Rupture: A Jungian Perspective in African Religion/mythology

Journal article by Eva Rocha Turner; MACLAS Latin American Essays, 2001

Subjects:

Africa--Religious aspects, Catholic Church in Africa--Management, Indigenous peoples, Jung, Carl Gustav--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...important to understand that West African religions and orthodox Western European...specifically using examples from West African religions, revere nature as sacred...churches, but in nature itself. West African religions have an integration of the...
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West African and Haitian Influences on the Ritual and Popular Music of Carriacou, Trinidad, and Cuba

Journal article by Donald R. Hill; Black Music Research Journal, 1998

Subjects:

Carriacou--Music, Cuba--Music, Trinidad and Tobago--Music

Collections: Entire Library

WEST AFRICAN AND HAITIAN...for Caribbean religions that seem to...generation West Africans. They brought...of African religions, modified greatly...today, these African religions have contributed...syncretisms of the West African sacred...
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African Tourist Encounters: Effects of Tourism on Two West African Societies

Journal article by Walter E.A. Van Beek; Africa, Vol. 73, 2003

Subjects:

Developing countries, International trade, Package tours, Tourism, Travel industry

Collections: Entire Library

...of sculpture in Dogon religion, African Arts 21 (4): 5866...1983. Masked Dancers of West Africa: the Dogon. New...I. 1999. Tourism and African Development: Change...an edited volume on African religion (1994), an illustrated...

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Magazine Articles on: west african religion

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"Amen" and "Ashe": African American Protestant Worship and Its West African Ancestor

Magazine article by Will Coleman; Cross Currents, Vol. 52, Summer 2002

Subjects:

African Americans--Religion, Cosmology--Religious aspects, Liturgies, Protestantism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the other hand, West African Yoruba religion incorporates what...the traditional West African religions. Syncretized elements...combined with other West African traditions, Native...in the following religions: Santeria (Puerto...
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West African Wood Carving

Magazine article by Wendy Weyant; School Arts, Vol. 98, April 1999

Subjects:

Culture--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Multiculturalism--Study and teaching, Social sciences--Study and teaching, Students--Education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

West African Wood Carving...village in Ghana, West Africa. Maxis carver...Ashanti society and religion. Creating a stool...awareness of the beauty of African art and life in general...For examples of African chairs, see the Gallery...
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Ghana's Golden Coast: This West African State Was a Focus of the Slave Trade for Centuries, and the First African Colony to Win Independence, Exactly Fifty Years Ago. Graham Gendall Norton Finds Lots of History to Explore

Magazine article by Graham Gendall Norton; History Today, Vol. 57, March 2007

Subjects:

Accra, Ghana--Buildings and facilities, Accra, Ghana--History, Cape Coast, Ghana--Buildings and facilities, Cape Coast, Ghana--History, Colonization--History, Ghana--Description and travel, Ghana--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Ashanti Wars, many from the black British West India Regiments) came in by huge surf...interesting graves: to Philip Quarcoe, the first African Anglican clergyman to be ordained (in...Akan, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Nzema and Hausa. Religion: Mostly Christian; Muslim and traditional...
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This Is Deeper Christian Life: An Outsider's View through the Eyes of Baffour Ankomah Who Travelled to Four West African Countries in August to See How the Deeper Life Bible Church Is Affecting Lives

Magazine article by Baffour Ankomah; New African, October 2006

Subjects:

Christian organizations--Growth, Christian organizations--Influence, Christian organizations--Services

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...living in the West have not paid...many millions of Africans. Seeing it at...revolution is religion, Christian religion...so-called new religion of the people, especially in the West, would have been...so-called new religion of the people, especially in the West, would have been...
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African Foundations of World Religions: "It Is to Inner Africa We Must Look in Order to Understand That Which Became Majestic in [Ancient] Egypt" -- Gerald Massey. Welcome to Part 2 of Our Series on Religion

Magazine article by Femi Biko; New African, May 2001

Subjects:

Africa--Religious aspects, Ancient civilization--Religious aspects, Civilization, Ancient--Religious aspects, Egypt--History, Egyptian history, Religion--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...pastoralists Fulani of West Africa to the...region. The African faiths consider...Egyptian Old Kingdom religion, the cosmology...traditions and religion in the post-Akhenaton...difference between African and Western religious...preoccupation. African Christian and...the ancestral religions. One in which...

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Newspaper Articles on: west african religion

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Drums and Dance Herald Archbishop; We've Lost the Power and Joy That Makes Real Disciples, and We've Become Consumers of Religion and Not Disciples of Jesus Christ Dr John Sentamu

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 1, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Africa to the proceedings with costumes and African music. The new Archbishop led the way...disciples, and weve become consumers of religion and not disciples of Jesus Christ. "We...Archbishop of York, bangs on the Great West door of York Minster to gain entry for...
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Meet the Muslim Madonna; Souad Massi Is Happy to Be World Music's Sexiest and Most Outspoken Star - Just Don't Ask Her to Speak for Her Religion

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...wherever I go in the West, it is always the first...Western singers about their religion?" She shrugs. "My faith...precarious. Though the North African country is currently...realise that I am an African," she says. "Coming from...work to be done in the West, too." . Souad Massi...
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Out of Africa but Rooted in the West

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 18, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...context of ancestral West African art? With her absence...Judeo (sic) Christian religion". I have long thought...for in following the West they mimic it in witless...they know of a genuine African past, or embark on tasks...
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WAR ON THE WEST: TERROR TOWER; Armed Police Blast Their Way into Flat Used by Two of the Bombers

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 26, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...about 10 other lads. Most were East African, Somalian I think. "He always seemed very normal and never spoke about religion." All the bombers devices were carefully...boarded a train at Westbourne Park, in West London. The Oval bomber, wearing a...
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A Holy Time When East Meets West

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), November 15, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...cook traditional foods from wherever they come from. North African foods, Indian, Pakistani, Arab foods: its a total mix." Apart...doing. Many times we do things because of our traditions and religions, but we dont even ask why we are doing them, or whats the point...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: west african religion

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Fortes, Meyer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Cambridge. An ethnologist, he specialized in African social structures. Among his writings are Oedipus and Job in West African Religion (1959), Kinship and the Social Order (1969), Time and Social Structure and Other Essays (1970), and Rules...
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Haiti

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...African slaves who still follow West African cultural patterns. Since the...Catholicism is the predominant religion, but African nature gods are still worshiped...are an officially recognized religion. Economy Agriculture is...
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Burkina Faso

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...borders on Mali in the west and north, on Niger in...subjects, but by using religion (based on ancestor worship...century scramble for African territory among the European...Technology in the Culture of a West African Kingdom (1966); D. M...
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Cape Verde

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...are Roman Catholic, and the religion is often mixed with indigenous...Crioulo, a blend of Portuguese and West African languages, are widely spoken...Verde than in Portugals other African holdings, the African Party for the Independence of...
5.

United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...immigration. Large numbers of Africans were transported in chains...the settlement of the West (where some earlier groups...quarter are from Asia. Religion and Education There...with the slave labor of Africans, who were imported in...colonial America. In religion, too, the colonies developed...

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