Религии Африки

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 638 p. The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly, capturing their dynamics in the...

Brill, 2016. — 244 p. — (Studies of Religion in Africa 43). The Khōjā of Tanzania, Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and...

Indiana University Press, 1991. — 600 p. "The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought."...

State University of New York Press, 2001. — 254 p. A bold work of African philosophy and theology that brings together witchcraft and the philosophy of Levinas. This work of African philosophy and theology uses the thought of Emmanuel Levinas to provide an analysis of tfu (witchcraft) among the Wimbum people of Cameroon along with a critique of intersubjective relations. Taking...

Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 632 p. — ISBN: 1405196904. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa. Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic...

Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. — 486 p. The geographical position of the comoros, has enabled to host several migrations: Bantu, Austronesian, Proto-Malagasy, Arabo-Persian. These migrants had brought their respective beliefs and cultures. As a testimony of this civilization:: the social importance of the Mwalimu, the existence of possession seances , the survival of...

London—NY: Teachers College Press, 1999. — 355 p. Бинам Эдвард Б. Африканское бессознательное: корни древнего мистицизма и современной психологии (на англ. яз.) Kiaspora, or the Great Dispersion. The African Unconscious. The Roots of Modern Science and Religion in Ancient Egypt. Kundalini and the Spread of African Mysticism. The Osirian Complex. The African Religions in Their...

New York: Plainview, 2000. — 44 p. — ISBN: 0-942272-61-7. Yoruba theology teaches that there are 401 powers of the right ("angels") called Orisha whose role is to act as protectors and facilitators of humankind; there are also 201 powers of the left called Ajogun ("demons") whose role is to present humans with challenges and obstacles. Eshu's place is unique because he is both...

University of California Press, 2012. — 280 p. "Wild Religion" is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa’s political journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores African indigenous religious heritage with a difference. As the spiritual...

Brill, 2019. — xii, 209 p. — (Studies of Religion in Africa 49). In Locating Politics in Ethiopia's Irreecha Ritual Serawit Bekele Debele gives an account of politics and political processes in contemporary Ethiopia as manifested in the annual ritual performance. Mobilizing various sources such as archives, oral accounts, conversations, videos, newspapers, and personal...

Brill, 2013. — 270 p. — (Studies of Religion in Africa 41). Pentecostalism is among the fastest growing social movements in the 21th century. This volume discusses global aspects of Pentecostal churches in northern Cameroon, by describing how the local congregations interact with civil society, traditional religion, and Islam. Extensive fieldwork and descriptions of the complex...

Edinburgh: Edmondston-Scott & Co., 1910. — 245 p. Эдмондстон-Скотт У. Дж. Основы религии негритянских народов в свете сопоставительного анализа индоевропейских и бантусских религий (на англ. яз.) Negro Stories of the Creation. The Origin of Death. The Spirit is the Life. The Worship of Ancestors. Escaping Death by means of Death. The Negro's Aspects of God.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1956. — 337 p. Эванс-Причард Э. Э. Религия народа нуэр (на англ. яз.) God. Spirits of the Above. Spirits of the Below. Spirit and the Social Order. The Problem of Symbols. Soul and Ghost. Sin. Sacrifice. Spear Symbolism. The Sacrificial Role of Cattle. The Meaning of Sacrifice. Priests and Prophets. Some Reflexions on Nuer Religion.

Surrey, UK: Princeton University Press, 1982. — 731 p. Фернандес У. Джеймс. Бвити: Этнография религиозного воображения народов Экваториальной Африки (на англ. яз.) Entering into an Equatorial Microcosm. The Road. Narratives of Fang-European Contacts, 1840-1910. Compositions of the Past. Extensions into Social Space and Time. Fang Incorporated in Built Space. Resource...

Routledge, 2019. — 256 p. Religions in Contemporary Africa is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the three main religious traditions on the African continent, African indigenous religions, Christianity and Islam. The book provides a historical overview of these important traditions and focuses on the roles they play in African societies today. It includes social,...

Field Museum of Natural History. — Chicago: Field Museum Press, 1931. — 85 p. — (Field Museum of Natural History. Publication 289. Anthropological Series. Vol. XXI, No. 1). Исследование Уилфрида Д. Хэмбли "Почитание змеи в Африке". List of Plates. Python Worship. The Serpent and Fecundity, Transmigration of Souls, Totemism. The Rainbow Snake. Immunity and Snake-medicines....

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 304 p. — (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion). This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar , spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. — 329 p. Линхардт Годфри. Опыт божественного: о религии динка (на англ. яз.) Division in the world. Divine unity and multiplicity: free-divinities. Divine unity and multiplicity: clan-divinities. Divinity and experience. The myths of the spear-masters. The control of experience: invocation and prayer. The control of experience: symbolic action....

2nd Edition — Waveland Press, 2015. — 216 p. In his widely acclaimed survey, John Mbiti sheds light on the survival and prosperity of African Religion in different historical, geographical, sociological, cultural, and physical environments. He presents a constellation of African worldviews, beliefs in God, use of symbols, valued traditions, and practices that have taken root with...

Oxford University Press, 2014. - 327 p. Africa is home to hundreds of ethnic groups, who together speak more than a thousand languages. It is not surprising, then, that Africa's enormous range of peoples, cultures, and ways of life has engendered a wide diversity of religious practices. This Very Short Introduction offers a wide-ranging look at the myriad indigenous religious...

Oxford University Press, 2014. — 326 p. Africa is home to hundreds of ethnic groups, who together speak more than a thousand languages. It is not surprising, then, that Africa's enormous range of peoples, cultures, and ways of life has engendered a wide diversity of religious practices. This Very Short Introduction offers a wide-ranging look at the myriad indigenous religious...

Brill, 2008. — 408 p. — (Studies of Religion in Africa 33). The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contributors to this volume...

Bruxelles: Académie Royale d'Outre-Mer, 1958. — 263 p. Паувельс Р.П.М. Имана и культ мёртвых в Руанде (на франц. яз.) Table des matieres: L'Imana, l'Etre supreme. Le culte des manes (guterekera abazimu).

University of California Press, 2016. — 312 p. The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous oriṣa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion...

Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1938. — 313 p. Ван Винг С. Й. Исследования религии и магии баконго (на франц. яз.) Table des matieres: Les hommes et les esprits. Nzambi Mpungu — L'etre supreme. Le culte des ancetres. La magie. Les Nkisi. La secte secrete du Kimpasi. Les rites du Kimpasi. Autour du Kimpasi. Situation présente. Obstacles au progres....

Brill, 2009. — 404 p. — (Studies of Religion in Africa, Volume 36). This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious,...

Brill, 2013. — 346 p. — (Studies of Religion in Africa 42). In Hindu Gods in West Africa, Wuaku offers an account of the histories, beliefs and practices of the Hindu Monastery of Africa and the Radha Govinda Temple, two Hindu Temples in Ghana. Using historical material and data from his field work in southern Ghana, Wuaku shows how these two Hindu Temples build their...

Пер. с франц. — М.: Наука, 1976. — 286 с.: илл. Книга французского учёного Б. Оля посвящена главным образом верованиям и культам традиционных обществ Тропической Африки. В работе использованы результаты его собственных наблюдений и исследований. Книга представляет интерес для африканистов, историков, религиоведов и всех, кто интересуется Африкой.

Пер. с франц. — М.: Наука, 1976. — 286 с.: илл. Книга французского учёного Б. Оля посвящена главным образом верованиям и культам традиционных обществ Тропической Африки. В работе использованы результаты его собственных наблюдений и исследований. Книга представляет интерес для африканистов, историков, религиоведов и всех, кто интересуется Африкой.