Tribal Religions

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...

Native American Myths is a wide-ranging examination of mythology among the First Nations people in Canada and the USA, featuring examples from Apac...

African grassroots theologies and churches are expressions of the faith, spirituality, and praxis of African Christians who seek to articulate and ...

African grassroots theologies and churches are expressions of the faith, spirituality, and praxis of African Christians who seek to articulate and ...

This volume explores current methodological developments in the interpretation of the Bible from an African perspective. Previous scholarship has e...

This book seeks to contribute to reflections done on the gender equality agenda by combing through oral and written resources to unearth and docume...

Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti's problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches...