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

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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Main Author: Westerlund, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 28.
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