African indigenous religions and disease causation : : from spiritual beings to living humans / / by David Westerlund.

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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Superior document:Studies of religion in Africa, v. 28
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Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 28.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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