Healing and women healers in Yoruba religion and African Christianity

Healing in African indigenous cultures is a corporate matter involving the totality of the person, family and community. Healing presupposes sickness; its practice is therefore interlocked with a people’s conception of sickness and diseases. In Africa, sickness is an attestation to the fact that an...

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Main Author: Olademo, Oyeronke (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University 2012
In: Ilorin journal of religious studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-64
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