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Title: | Some Developments in Bemba Religious History |
Author: | Werner, Douglas |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-24 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | religious history Bemba Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1594699 |
Abstract: | The author combines written and oral material with linguistic and ethnographic data to describe some developments - the description of these developments is often in hypothetical terms - in the religious history of the Bemba (northeastern Zambia). Purpose of this article: to add to the existing histories of the politics and trade of these people, a historical dimension of religion; to test the effectiveness of combining various types of evidence for reconstructing the history of a society whose traditions have been transmitted orally; to suggest dimensions which further research can explore in this or other African societies whose religions have received little historical consideration by scholars. Notes, table, maps. |