This book examines the paradox whereby spiritual afflictions remain central in Africa and the diaspora, yet are routinely sidelined in official public health policies and global health agendas. It speaks to scholars and students in anthropology, pol...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of Sarat Chandra Das (18491917), the Bengali explorer and scholar whose journeys to Tibet and scholarly contributions transformed the religious and intellectual landscape of colonial Bengal. Tracing Das...Loe edasi...
This monograph critically examines the intersection of gender, religion, and mental health in the context of COVID-19, centering African womens experiences. Drawing from the assertion that pandemics wear the face of a woman, it explores how social,...Loe edasi...
Presents an exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought....Loe edasi...
In Oru Lore is the only one without agbára - the ability to harness power from the sun. And must conceal it from everyone. Including her best friend, Alawani.But when the gods declare Alawani an Àlùfáà, he must be st...Loe edasi...
This book explores the intersection of indigenous wisdom, spiritual traditions, and ecological sustainability. It brings together diverse perspectives from scholars and practitioners, highlighting how ancient spiritual practices foster environment...Loe edasi...
Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032840178)
This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the religious practices of tribes and other communities have changed and adapted through the years in contemporary India...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032850740)
Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life. This handbook explores rituals, beliefs, liturgy, knowledge and traditions that tribal people practice today and traces t...Loe edasi...
Through an extensive case study of prayer camps in Ghana, this book aims to provide a new approach to the study of mental health and culture....Loe edasi...
Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land is an introduction to the religious life of Native American people in North America. Weaving together historical, ethnographic, theoretical, and legal materials, the book focus...Loe edasi...
Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land is an introduction to the religious life of Native American people in North America. Weaving together historical, ethnographic, theoretical, and legal materials, the book focus...Loe edasi...
This timely and interdisciplinary volume offers a critical exploration of race, migration, and the role of the church in fostering peace and justice in contemporary Southern Africa. Against the backdrop of growing global tensions surrounding race an...Loe edasi...
Have you ever wondered how people with a history of enslavement or colonialism heal from past trauma or navigate their life pursuits in a world with many borders? Healing Beyond Borders explores healing among people of Afro-Sur...Loe edasi...
Sari: Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Exeter Press, ISBN-13: 9781804132418)
Paganism Persisting is a history of revivals of pagan religion in Europe from late antiquity to the 20th century. It explores the motives, beliefs and circumstances behind a series of attempted revivals in antiquity, the Byzantine empire, the Renais...Loe edasi...
This book explains the context of disease, wellbeing and medical practices in Africa, and importantly, how these are influenced by religion (including African ways of belief), spirituality, and faith-based institutions, in relation to healthcare p...Loe edasi...
Most of South Asia’s tourism is based upon the region’s pervasive religious heritage. This book provides a descriptive and conceptual examination of religious heritage in South Asia and how this tangible and intangible heritage is utilized as one...Loe edasi...
This book details Siberian indigenous heritage for the first time and demonstrates its implications for religious studies and cultural preservation around the globe. This book on indigenous heritage in Siberia focuses on sacred objects,...Loe edasi...
Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the influence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement in Northern Amazonia....Loe edasi...
This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia. States must organize the mobility of approximately two million pilgrims every year. States also manage the flow of vast amounts of fi...Loe edasi...
This book discusses how Africa has been understood and defined across various academic fields. Building on the influential works of Valentin-Yves Mudimbe and more recent studies by Axel Fleisch and Rhiannon Stephens, this book bridges previous limit...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231212625)
Over the centuries, from the transatlantic slave trade to voluntary mass migrations through the digital era, African cultural practices have taken root and transformed in the Americas. Even though Afro-Brazilians make up a large share of the global B...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231212632)
Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future investigates the interlinked art, history, religion, philosophy, and cosmology of oral traditions across the Afro-Brazilian diaspora, arguing that these varied cultural expressions together constitute...Loe edasi...
This book introduces fundamental questions and problems driving debates in contemporary African philosophy of religion, which has emerged recently as one of the most vibrant new fields of African philosophy. The chapters in this book respond to Af...Loe edasi...
This book offers a bold re-examination of how African spirituality and religion are understood, challenging centuries of misrepresentation shaped by colonial and Abrahamic thought. It argues that describing African religions through any form of modi...Loe edasi...
Three Keys to a Harmonious Life In the heart of the Andes, the ancient Inkas cultivated a spiritual philosophy that created one of the most harmonious and advanced civilizations on Earth. For them, the secrets to a life of meaning, pur...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research. It offers the first comprehens...Loe edasi...
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisd...Loe edasi...
This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement,...Loe edasi...
This book examines the paradox whereby spiritual afflictions remain central in Africa and the diaspora, yet are routinely sidelined in official public health policies and global health agendas. It speaks to scholars and students in anthropology, pol...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of Sarat Chandra Das (18491917), the Bengali explorer and scholar whose journeys to Tibet and scholarly contributions transformed the religious and intellectual landscape of colonial Bengal. Tracing Das...Loe edasi...
This monograph critically examines the intersection of gender, religion, and mental health in the context of COVID-19, centering African womens experiences. Drawing from the assertion that pandemics wear the face of a woman, it explores how social,...Loe edasi...
Presents an exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought....Loe edasi...
In Oru Lore is the only one without agbára - the ability to harness power from the sun. And must conceal it from everyone. Including her best friend, Alawani.But when the gods declare Alawani an Àlùfáà, he must be st...Loe edasi...
Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, Suset Sanchez, Jossianna Arroyo, Erwan Dianteill, Joshua R. Deckman, Emily A. Maguire, Lazara Menendez, Stephan Palmie, Juan Esteban Plaza, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes...
Sari: Critical Caribbean Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978846265)
El Montes New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte (1954), one of the most influential books in Caribbean cultural history. Highly referenced, if understudie...Loe edasi...
Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, Suset Sanchez, Jossianna Arroyo, Erwan Dianteill, Joshua R. Deckman, Emily A. Maguire, Lazara Menendez, Stephan Palmie, Juan Esteban Plaza, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes...
El Montes New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte (1954), one of the most influential books in Caribbean cultural history. Highly referenced, if understudie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700641826)
Honorable Mention: Best First book in the History of ReligionsResponding to Vine Deloria, Jr.’s call for all people to “become involved” in the struggle to protect Indigenous sacred sites, Dana Lloyd’s Land Is Kin pr...Loe edasi...
This book explores the intersection of indigenous wisdom, spiritual traditions, and ecological sustainability. It brings together diverse perspectives from scholars and practitioners, highlighting how ancient spiritual practices foster environment...Loe edasi...
Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032840178)
This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the religious practices of tribes and other communities have changed and adapted through the years in contemporary India...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032850740)
Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life. This handbook explores rituals, beliefs, liturgy, knowledge and traditions that tribal people practice today and traces t...Loe edasi...
Through an extensive case study of prayer camps in Ghana, this book aims to provide a new approach to the study of mental health and culture....Loe edasi...
Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land is an introduction to the religious life of Native American people in North America. Weaving together historical, ethnographic, theoretical, and legal materials, the book focus...Loe edasi...
Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land is an introduction to the religious life of Native American people in North America. Weaving together historical, ethnographic, theoretical, and legal materials, the book focus...Loe edasi...
This timely and interdisciplinary volume offers a critical exploration of race, migration, and the role of the church in fostering peace and justice in contemporary Southern Africa. Against the backdrop of growing global tensions surrounding race an...Loe edasi...
