ISBN:
9780253017888
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9780253017673
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 301 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Ambler, Charles Reflections on West Africa's Women of God 2018
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Hackett, Rosalind I. J. The Experience of Alinesitoué and African Women's Prophetism 2018
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Hellweg, Joseph Sacrifice, Ethics, and Alinesitoué 2018
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Marouan, Maha, 1975 - When Women Are Central to African Religious History 2018
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Mukonyora, Isabel, 1958 - God-Emitai and Women Prophets 2018
DDC:
299.6832
Keywords:
Diatta, Aline Sitoe
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Diola (African people) Religion
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Women prophets Senegal
;
Prophecy Political aspects
;
Senegal
;
Prophecy Social aspects
;
Senegal
;
Senegal
;
Diola
;
Prophetin
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Diatta, Aline Sitoe 1920-1944
Abstract:
Prophets, gender, and religious change among the Diola of Senegambia -- The Diola: an ethnographic introduction -- Koonjaen, Felupe, and Diola prophets in precolonial Senegambia -- Women prophets, colonization, and the creation of community shrines of Emitai, 1890-1913 -- Prophetism at the peak of colonial rule, 1914-1939 -- Alinesitoué Diatta and the crisis of the war years, 1939-1944 -- The prophetic teachings of Alinesitoué, her successors, and a contested Diola prophetic tradition
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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