African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation

African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation
by David Westerlund (Author)

Product Details
* Paperback: 240 pages
* Publisher: BRILL (July 31, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 9004144331

Book Description
This comparative and historical work provides rich material on religion and disease etiologies among five African peoples (San, Maasai, Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba) and discusses possible reasons for an important shift from spiritual beings such as deities to living humans like witches as agents of disease.

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