Robert M. Baum

Ancient African Religions (eBook, ePUB)

A History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the history of religions in Africa from the burial practices of the earliest humans to the rise of centralized theocratic kingdoms like ancient Egypt up to the rise of Islam in the Seventh Century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197747094
• Artikelnr.: 72245500

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Baum chairs the Department of African and African American Studies and is a professor in that department and the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author of two other books, the award-winning Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religon and Society in Precolonial Senegambia and West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoue and the Diola Prophetic Tradition. He served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa for six years.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* List of Maps
* List of Photographs
* Chapter One: Introduction
* Chapter Two: Before Adam and Eve: African Religions from Lucy to the
Neolithic Revolution
* Chapter Three: A Religious History of Ancient Egypt: From Unification
to the Reforms of Akhenaten
* Chapter Four: Not Out of Egypt: African Religions from 3200-1200 BCE
* Chapter Five: Egypt and the Nile Valley Before the Roman Occupation
* Chapter Six: Beyond the Nile Basin: African Religious History from
1300 BCE to the Dawn of the Common Era
* Chapter Seven: Egyptian Religious Traditions Under Foreign
Domination: From the Roman Conquest to the Arab Conquest
* Chapter Eight: North and Northeast Africa in the Age of Roman and
Byzantine Domination: From the First Century BCE to the Lesser Hijra
* Chapter Nine: The Sahara and South: African Religious History from
the Beginnings of the Common Era to the Lesser Hijra
* Chapter Ten: Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index