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Sanneh, Lamin – 1984
The importance of studying the primary context of the relationship between "source" and "influence" in a comparative science of religion and culture is emphasized throughout this article. Focusing primarily on the situation in Muslim and Christian Africa, the article distinguishes between in-coming "sources" and…
Descriptors: Change, Christianity, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences
Healing and Conversion in New Religious Movements in Africa: Elements of an Indigenous Epistemology.
Sanneh, Lamin – 1983
In this analysis of healing and conversion as two of the most notable and persistent traits of the new religious movements in Africa, healing is described as an indigenous religious category within the context of conversion as a modern permutation of African religion. Religious conversion is most strikingly represented in societies where the…
Descriptors: African History, Christianity, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context
