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J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

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Spirit and Spirits in African Religious Traditions

Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World 2013 J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu 10 citations

This chapter discusses the spirit world in African thought systems and practices. The religious traditions and beliefs of the African peoples have enough differences to merit a study of each in its own right. Nevertheless, they also display enough family resemblances for us to be able to delineate their main features and to a very reasonable extent fall on them to represent the whole. The...

DOI: 10.1057/9781137268990_4 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Evil spirit African people Traditional religion Spirit world +1