Reflections on West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition

This brief discussion of Robert Baum's recent book, West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition, is based on comments made at a roundtable devoted to the work at the 2016 meeting of the American Academy of Religion. This commentary looks at Baum's work fr...

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Main Author: Ambler, Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2018
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 145-149
Review of:West Africa's women of God (Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press, 2016) (Ambler, Charles)
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BS Traditional African religions
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KCD Hagiography; saints
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Book review
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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