Ancient African religions: a history
This text examines the history of religions in Africa from the burial practices of the earliest humans to the rise of centralized theocratic kingdoms like ancient Egypt up to the rise of Islam in the Seventh Century.
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| Format: | Electronic Image |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford scholarship online
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Religion
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Egypt
Religion
History
B Religion & beliefs B Africa Religion History B Religion B Africa Religion B Indigenous Peoples Religion |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This text examines the history of religions in Africa from the burial practices of the earliest humans to the rise of centralized theocratic kingdoms like ancient Egypt up to the rise of Islam in the Seventh Century. "This book is the first continent-wide history of ancient African religions, focused on indigenous religions. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, written, and oral sources, this work examines the history of ancient religions from the Palaeolithic Age to the first Muslims in Africa. It begins with an examination of the earliest burial sites, associated with Homo Naledi in South Africa and analyses the earliest archaeological evidence of ritual activity, funerals, and symbolic artifacts. It discusses the impact of the Neolithic Revolution on African religions, the rise of the earliest African kingdoms and priesthoods. It places the rise of ancient Egyptian religious traditions within its African context, seeing it as both a product of African religious influences and a source of Mediterranean and Southwest Asian influences. It discusses the rise of iron-working technologies and blacksmith cults particularly in Eastern Africa, but also in iron-working cultures in West Africa. It discusses the importance of the Egyptian religious reform movement led by Akhenaten, as well as the rise of Axum in the Ethiopian highlands. Finally, it looks at the impact of Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman conquests on the religious experiences of the peoples of northern and northeastern Africa"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 1, 2024) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 300 Seiten), Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780197747100 9780197747094 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/9780197747100.001.0001 |
