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...

In Walking to Magdalena, Seth Schermerhorn explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American and Indige...

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cu...

While the atonement is a central component of Christianity, there is little agreement in the tradition about how it should be understood. This book...

While the atonement is a central component of Christianity, there is little agreement in the tradition about how it should be understood. This book...

Many Peoples, Many Faiths places the worlds religions in historical context, illustrating the complex dynamic of each religion over time, while als...

J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of ...

Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous ontological turn, a (re...

Religio-political organisations in Zimbabwe play an important role in advocating democratisation and reconciliation, against acquiescent, silenced ...

Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous sch...

In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical cru...

In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical cru...

'A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieYorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journ...

This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digita...

This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituali...

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

Although African scholars have made a significant contribution to the study of African Pentecostalism, very few studies have reflected on their out...

Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea, The Shamans Wages offers the first in-depth stud...