This important new reference covers African and African-American religion in sub-Saharan Africa, North America, South America, and the Caribbean, and provides vital insights into its growing worldwide
The anthropological study of religion is at a crossroads. While fewer textbooks on the anthropology of religion are published each year and much of what is available is decades old, religion is playin
If, as anthropologists have long maintained, religion is tightly bound up with a theory of the world and a way of constructing reality, how can a person suddenly choose a new religion? Anthropologists
This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.
