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 | | Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia by Robert M. Baum ISBN-10: 0195123921 ISBN-10: 0-19-512392-1 ISBN-13: 9780195123920 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512392-0 Hardcover 1999-05-13 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life. | ||
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The Fascinating scope of African Religion. Baum has done an excellent job at capturing the impact of slavery on traditional African religion. The fact that an often ignored subject is gaining insightful scolarly attention is great and represents a definite progression within the feild. | ||