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Title: | Explorations in the history and sociology of territorial cults in Zambia |
Author: | Binsbergen, W.M.J. van |
Book title: | Guardians of the land: essays on Central African territorial cults / ed. by J.M. Schoffeleers. - Gwelo: Mambo Press. - (Zambeziana; vol. 5) |
Year: | 1979 |
Pages: | 47-88 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | African religions cults |
External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/8941 |
Abstract: | In order better to present these cults in their interrelation with other institutions, the author introduces an additional analytical concept: the shrine cult, calling a shrine 'a spot which is singled out and treated in a very special way because of its close association with events by which entities believed to exist somewhere outside this visible order can manifest themselves within this order - and where, therefore, humans can communicate with these entities'. The concepts of territorial cult and shrine cult largely overlap, but neither is a subset of the other. The territorial cult in the Zambian context - Shrines, ecology and the community - Chiefs and shrines in Zambia's history - Conclusion. |