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"This book is the first continent-wide history of ancient African religions, focused on indigenous religions. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, written, and oral sources, this work examines the history of ancient religions from the Palaeolithic Age to the first Muslims in Africa. It begins with an examination of the earliest burial sites, associated with Homo Naledi in South Africa and analyses the earliest archaeological evidence of ritual activity, funerals, and symbolic artifacts. It discusses the impact of the Neolithic Revolution on African religions, the rise of the earliest African kingdoms and priesthoods. It places the rise of ancient Egyptian religious traditions within its African context, seeing it as both a product of African religious influences and a source of Mediterranean and Southwest Asian influences. It discusses the rise of iron-working technologies and blacksmith cults particularly in Eastern Africa, but also in iron-working cultures in West Africa. It discusses the importance of the Egyptian religious reform movement led by Akhenaten, as well as the rise of Axum in the Ethiopian highlands. Finally, it looks at the impact of Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman conquests on the religious experiences of the peoples of northern and northeastern Africa"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Maps
• Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• Examining the Sources
• Africa in the Study of Religions
• Structure of the Work
• 2 Before Adam and Eve: African Religions from the Dawn of Humanity to the Neolithic Revolution
• Paleolithic Religions
• Neolithic Religions
• Conclusion
• 3 A Religious History of Ancient Egypt: From Unification to the Reforms of Akhenaten
• Archaic (3100-2686 bce)
• First Intermediate Period (2181-2125 bce)

• Second Intermediate Period (1750-1560 bce)
• New Kingdom (from 1560 bce)
• The Reforms of Akhenaten
• Reversing Reforms
• Conclusion
• 4 Not out of Egypt: Africa from 3200 to 1200 bce
• Northeast Africa
• North Africa
• West Africa
• Equatorial Africa
• East Africa
• Southern Africa
• Conclusion
• 5 Egypt and the Nile Valley before the Roman Occupation
• Egypt from the Ramesside Dynasty to the Third Intermediate Period (1320-731 bce)
• Egypt under Its Conquerors
• Ptolemaic Egypt
• Nubia
• Conclusion
• 6 Beyond the Nile Basin: African Religious History from 1300 bce to the Dawn of the Common Era
• Ethiopia/Eritrea
• North Africa
• The Sahara
• West Africa
• Eastern Sudan and Upper Nile Regions
• Equatorial
• East Africa
• Southern Africa
• Conclusion
• 7 Egyptian Religious Traditions under Foreign Domination: From the Roman Conquest to the Arab Conquest
• The Early Roman Period
• Christianity, Egyptian Religion, and Roman Persecution
• Egyptian Religious Life under Christian Hegemony
• Conclusion
• 8 North and Northeast Africa in the Age of Roman and Byzantine Domination: From the First Century bce to the Lesser Hijra
• North Africa
• Nubia
• The Horn of Africa
• Conclusion
• 9 The Sahara and the South: African Religious History from the Beginnings of the Common Era to the First Hijra
• East Africa
• Madagascar
• Southern Africa
• Equatorial Africa
• West Africa
• Conclusion
• 10 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index

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Author/Creator:

Baum, Robert M. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ancient African religions: a history [by Baum, R.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ancient African religions [by Baum, R.M.] (New York : Oxford University Press, 2024 — ISBN 9780197747063; LCCN 2024004613)

Subjects:

Indigenous peoples — Religion

Africa — Religion

Indigenous peoples

Religion

Africa

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 10, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BL2400 .B295 2024eb

ISBNs:

0197747094 (electronic book)
9780197747100 (electronic book)
0197747108 (electronic book)
9780197747087 (electronic book)
0197747086 (electronic book)
9780197747094 (electronic bk.)
9780197747063 (paperback) [Invalid]
9780197747070 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024004614

OCLC Numbers:

1420159025