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West Africa's women of God : Alinesitouâe and the Diola prophetic tradition / Robert M. Baum.

By: Material type: TextText Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [201 6]Description: x, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780253017673 (cloth)
  • 9780253017888 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.6832   23
Contents:
Prophets, gender, and religious change among the Diola of Senegambia -- The Diola: an ethnographic introduction -- Koonjaen, Felupe, and Diola prophets in precolonial Senegambia -- Women prophets, colo nization, and the creation of community shrines of Emitai, 1890-1913 -- Prophetism at the peak of colonial rule, 1914-1939 -- Alinesitou âe Diatta and the crisis of the war years, 1939-1944 -- The propheti c teachings of Alinesitouâe, her successors, and a contested Diola prop hetic tradition.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prophets, gender, and religious change among the Diola of Senegambia -- The Diola: an ethnographic introduction -- Koonjaen, Felupe, and Diola prophets in precolonial Senegambia -- Women prophets, colo nization, and the creation of community shrines of Emitai, 1890-1913 -- Prophetism at the peak of colonial rule, 1914-1939 -- Alinesitou âe Diatta and the crisis of the war years, 1939-1944 -- The propheti c teachings of Alinesitouâe, her successors, and a contested Diola prop hetic tradition.

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