The degree of cultural variation from one part of Lugbara to another is so great that there appears to be no fixed forms of ritual behaviour associated with sacrifice, nor many generally accepted views as to the aims of these behaviours. The Lugbara construct a great many shrines in and near their homesteads, at which offerings are made to the dead and to many kinds of spirits. Herein the problem of the relationship between forms of ritual offering, sickness, sin, and the continual restructuring of ordered social relations is addressed. Since living persons (save rainmakers or prophets) cannot directly contact Divine Spirit, they must request the dead to do so. There is a clear action of identification by a rite of encirclement of the sacri...
There is today a marked increase of reports on human sacrifice especially in the media and police. A...
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There is today a marked increase of reports on human sacrifice especially in the media and police. A...
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There is today a marked increase of reports on human sacrifice especially in the media and police. A...
Funeral rite in the Bamoun cultural universe is perceived as dole or charity on behalf of the depart...
The question addressed by this study would be to ask where there is any semantic overlap in the way ...
In Sub-Saharan civilizations, myth has always been a driving force for the foundation and the spread...
This paper aims to explain a correlation between the social division of ritual services on "purifica...
This thesis explores processes that have been described by scholars of transitional justice as post-...
The reality which religious thoughts express in the diverse religious adherents across the world can...
There is today a marked increase of reports on human sacrifice especially in the media and police. A...
The article examines how ritual, particularly ritual healing, becomes transnational and how the chan...
In this article we will deal with the sacrificial practices on the occasions of commensality in the ...
For the Yoruba (southwestern Nigeria) the sacrifice, which allows communication between the divine a...
Throughout the world, many adherents of different religious traditions still believe, especially in ...
The world as a whole is dynamic, society and people cannot remain static, changes occur from time to...
Abstract No traditional centralized political authority exists among the Ngambay in the South-West o...
At the present time, certain researchers have put forth the idea of Ancient Egypt’s African origins....
There is today a marked increase of reports on human sacrifice especially in the media and police. A...
Funeral rite in the Bamoun cultural universe is perceived as dole or charity on behalf of the depart...
The question addressed by this study would be to ask where there is any semantic overlap in the way ...