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7998: Re: 7990 (Re: 7989 & 7988) (fwd)
From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>
"amedard" and others will be enlightened by the small bibliography below.
Haiti cannot be disconnected from other African-derived religions in the
Americas. Good reading!
5/01
SOME SIGNIFICANT TEXTS ON AFRICAN RELIGIONS
ABIMBOLA, Wande. Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpus (New
York, 1997).
AJAYI, Omofolabo S. Yoruba Dance: The Semiotics of Movement and
The Body Attitude in a Nigerian Culture (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press,
1998).
AWOLALU, Omosade. Yoruba Beliefs and Sacrificial Rites (New York,
1996 [1979])
BADEJO, Deirdre. Osun: The Elegant Deity (Trenton, N.J., 1996).
BARNES, Sandra T., ed. Africa's Ogun (Bloomington, IN., 1989).
BASTIDE, Roger. The African Religions of Brazil (Baltimore, 1978).
BERGLUND, Axel-Ivar. Zulu Thought Patterns and Symbolism
(Bloomington, IN, 1989).
BOCKIE, Simon. Death and the Invisible Powers: The World of Kongo
Belief (Bloomington, IN, 1993).
BRANDON, George, ed. Santeria, from Africa to the New World
(Bloomington, IN, 1993).
BROWN, Diana DeG. Umbanda: Religion and Politics in Brazil (New
York, 1994).
BROWN, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
(Berkeley, 1991).
BUCKLEY, Anthony D. Yoruba Medecine (New York, 1997).
CANIZARES, Raul. Walking with the Night: The Afro-Cuban World of
Santeria (Rochester, VT, 1993).
CHEVANNES, Barry. Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (Syracuse, NY,
1994).
COLEMAN, Will. Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and
African/American Ways of "Telling the Story" (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania
State University, 2000).
CROSLEY, Reginald. The Vodou Quantum Leap: Alternate Realities,
Power and Mysticism (St Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000).
COURLANDER, Harold. Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes ( New York,
1997 [1973]).
DAVIS, Kortright and Ellias FARAJAJE-JONES, eds. African Creative
Expressions of the Divine ( Washington, D.C., 1991).
DAVIS, Wade. Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian
Zombi (Chapel Hill, 1988).
DEREN, Maya. Divine Horsemen: The living Gods of Haiti (New Press,
1988).
DIALLO, Yaya and Mitchell HALL. The Healing Drum: African Wisdon
Teachings ( Rochester, VT, 1989).
DOW, Carol L. Sarava. Afro-Brazilian Magick (St Paul, MN, 1997).
DREWAL, Margaret Thompson. Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency
(Bloomington, IN, 1992).
FATUNMBI, Fa'Lokun. Iba 'Se Orisa (Bronx, NY, 1994).
GLEASON, Judith. Oya: In Praise of the Goddess (San Francisco,
1992).
GYEKYE, Kwame. African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual
Scheme ( Philadelphia, 1995).
HALL, James. Sangoma: My Odyssey into the Spirit World of Africa
(New York, 1994).
IDOWU, E. Bolaji. Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief (New York, 1996
[1997]).
LAWSON, E. Thomas. Religions of Africa (New York, 1985).
LUCAS, J. Olumide. The Religion of the Yorubas ( New York, 1996
[1948]).
NEIMARK, Philip John. The Way of the Orisa ( San Francisco, 1993).
PARRINDER, Geoffrey. Religion in Africa (New York, 1969).
PEEK, Philip M.,ed. African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing (
Bloomington, IN, 1991).
PELTON, Robert D. The Trickster in West Africa: A study of Mythic
Irony and Sacred Delight (Berkeley, 1989 [1980]).
RAY, Benjamin C. African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community
(Boston, 1976).
RIGAUD, Milo. Secrets of Voodoo (San Francisco, 1985).
SHORTER, Aylward. Prayer in the Religious Traditions of Africa
(London, 1975).
SOME, Malidoma. Of Water and the Spirit (New York, 1995).
TEISH, Luisah. Carnival of the Spirit (San Francisco, 1994).
THOMPSON, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and
Afro-American Art and Philosophy (New York, 1983).
WAFER, Jim. The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian
Candomble (Philadelphia, 1991)
WILSON, Sule Greg. The Drummer's Path: Moving the Spirit with
Ritual and Traditional Drumming (Rochester, VT, 1992).
ZAHAN, Dominique. The Religion, Spirituality and Thought of
Traditional Africa (Chicago, 1979).