Robert M Baum

West Africa's Women of God

Alinesitoue and the Diola Prophetic Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert M. Baum is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Religion at Dartmouth College. He is author of Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780253017888
• ISBN-10: 0253017882
• Artikelnr.: 42318299

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Baum

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Prophets, Gender, and Religious Change among the Diola of Senegambia
2. The Diola: An Ethnographic Introduction
3. Koonjaen, Felupe, and Diola Prophets in Precolonial Senegambia
4. Women Prophets, Colonization, and the Creation of Community Shrines of
Emitai, 1890-1913
5. Prophetism at the Peak of Colonial Rule, 1914-1939
6. Alinesitoué Diatta and the Crisis of the War Years, 1939-1944
7. The Prophetic Teachings of Alinesitoué, Her Successors, and a Contested
Diola Prophetic Tradition
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index