Tribal Religions

This volume brings to the fore the intersections of religion, gender and sustainable development in 21st century Africa from an interdisciplinary p...

Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining momentum since the turn of the twenty-first...

This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious ...

In Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, historian Tabitha Stanmore will transport readers to a time when magic was used day-to-day as ...

Often seen as ethnically monolithic, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in fact successfully pursued evangelism among diverse communities...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

This book is a comprehensive study of the intersection of religion, Indigenous culture, and community life, featuring an in-depth examination of th...

This book is about an alternative path to mitigating the climate-change crisis. It explains why todays status-quo approaches are not working, mainl...

Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor. Some have contended that African r...

During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses. Following o...

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia. States must organize the mobili...

This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into humanenvironmental relationships and ecologies, together wit...