Shrines of the Slave Trade

Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia

Robert M. Baum (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

1999
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-512392-0 (ISBN)

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This text aims to reconstruct religious and social history of Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when Atlantic slave trade was at its height. It shows how leaders used religion to regulate the influence of the trade, and demonstrates how this changed religious life.

In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.6.1999
Zusatzinfo	5 maps
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	250 x 149 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-512392-1 / 0195123921
ISBN-13	978-0-19-512392-0 / 9780195123920
Zustand	Neuware