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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peop
Slavery, Memory, and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, C. 1850-present
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Authors: Meera Venkatachalam
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This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
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Authors: Yolanda Covington-Ward
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the
An Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo
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In this book, Eric Montgomery and Christian Vannier provide an ethnographically informed text on the cultural meanings and practices surrounding the gods and me
Slavery and its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora
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Authors: Rebecca Shumway
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Ghana-for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years-remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming