This paper surveys the relationship between warfare and religion in precolonial Africa, with a particular focus on Eastern Africa, including the Great Lakes region and the Ethiopian Highlands. It is argued that religion played a central role in the legitimization of violence as well as in its ...
Religious Beliefs.The Tagalogs believe in one Supreme God. “Like all primitive religions, that of the Tagalog was,” says Father Horacio De La Costa, “closely interwoven with their culture and traditions. It governed not only ritual and sacrifice, feast and festival, but almost the entire li...
Precolonial Black Africa: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa, from Antiquity to the Formation of Modern States This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates...
Religion and spirituality are powerful social forces in contemporary South Africa. Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) are commonly consulted for both
Christianity in its heyday in Africa was neither religion, nor trade, nor politics, while the trader, the missionary and the politician were one and the same person for whom it was impossible for his right hand to shut his eyes to what hie left hand was doing. The result of this ambigui...
Africa! The Messenger Noah is asking and encouraging you to marry many wives and never cease marrying more women. The reason why the Messenger Noah is encouraging males to be polyga- mists is that most houses in heaven are still empty. We must bear more children who will occupy the ...
Further, a large portion of these events relate to situations outside of Portugal and Brazil, including former colonial states in Africa, as the map below shows. Increasing our ability to process all of this material would yield tremendous gains in monitoring local media of the sort that ...
Only very recently do we find stud- ies on spiritual potencies, witchcraft and similar phenomena in connection to modern developments of new forms of power and wealth or in relation to migra- tion (for Africa cf. Geschiere 1997, for Southeast Asia cf. Hüwelmeier /Krause 2010; Endres/...
that countered the egalitarian message that I embraced when I became Muslim. When I transferred to a four year college in 1998, I embarked on a long journey to understand racial formation in Muslim societies, Islam in Africa, and Black identities in the Middle East. Because they didn’t ...
Christian Missions and Colonial Empires Reconsidered: A Black Evangelist in West Africa, 1766-1816 The article presents an exploration into the work of the late 18th-century West African Anglican missionary Philip Quaque and the relationship between imperialism and religion during the colonial era. The...