Search results for "African religion" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the most important Roman city on the African continent and the site of ... quot;) and in letters to the other North African bishops. He called a council ...14 KB (2,280 words) - 19:36, 22 December 2022
- was to restore amicable relations with the African and Eastern churches, which ... dispute had arisen between Rome and the African and Eastern churches concerning ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 11:45, 13 February 2022
- University. After working for the pan-African movement in England, he ... either capitalism or communism into African soil, Africans ought to ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- It borders Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic ... to the west, Cameroon and the Central African Republic to the north, and ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- |religions = Christian, African Traditional Religion |related = Bantu ... The Zulu are a South African ethnic group of an estimated 17-22 million ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and his fieldwork ... On the one side, he tried to explain religion in Freudian terms, yet on ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who were imported ... are the highest form of clergy in the religion, whose responsibility it ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Many people of African descent in the Americas claim a degree of Yoruba ... Empire often used the military to spread religion, a movement illustrated ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- all discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin ... his work. He went out to register African American voters and lobby ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- relations. Black gospel was a synthesis of African-based musical idioms and ... The relationship between the origins of white and African-American ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- of Oriente, combining both Spanish and African themes. Like the son, salsa ... practitioners of any Afro-Catholic religion. ==History== ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the ... was the early penetration of Islam. North African traders, Berbers and Arabs ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- nation for free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans. It currently ... entity begins with the arrival of African American settlers, or the ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- of Carthage, Cyprian assembled a synod of African bishops, which renewed the ... in the face of the opposition of many African and Asian churches led by ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- present day Ethiopia, this was an ancient African civilization that traded ... the Aksumite empire, and in other ancient African civilizations, as a platform ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- affinity growth hormone-binding protein in African pygmies.] Retrieved August ... The Pygmies are thought to be the first inhabitants of the African ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- later, advocates of equal rights for African Americans—of secretly ... with so much as "one drop" of African blood must be regarded as ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- culminated in the American Civil War, many African Americans, escaped slaves ... * McKivigan, John R., and Mitchell Snay. Religion and the antebellum ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
- typical of the poorer nations of the African continent. This gap has ... Indian (including Tamil), Vietnamese, African, Malagasy, Chinese and ethnic ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- city center are populated by Tanzanians of African descent, with the exception ... and Western India have visited the East African coast since early in the ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- In ancient African culture, the carrying of an animal's foot ... In some Asian and African cultures the Evil Eye is also associated ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Canary Islands, where contact with West African traders pointed her in the ... her necessary skills for surviving in the African jungles, and often went ...29 KB (4,571 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- an era marked by a creative flourish among African-American artists in Harlem ... a prominent physicist who was the second African-American to receive a PhD ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- The majority of Dogon practice an animist religion, including the ... *Davis, Shawn R. “Dogon Funerals” African Art (Summer, 2002). ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- (UMCB). He was then assistant at an African welfare center and Boarding ... In 1949, Kaunda became an interpreter and adviser on African affairs ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
- in 1959, emerging into Gabon, the Central African Republic, Congo, and Chad ... the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 11:58, 13 May 2024
- country once independent, and used by the African nationalist factions in ... As African-majority governments were assuming control in neighboring ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- statue of St. Maurice that shows him with African features. In choosing to ... Category:Religion ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- and are closely related to both Northwest African Berbers and West Africans ... Middle Eastern and/or Indigenous African Tamasheq speakers qualify ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- in the Negev Valley drain towards the Syro-African Rift Valley, the lowest ... The town is home to members of the African Hebrew Israelite Nation ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- #039;s baptism by immersion and freedom of religion. Some historians ... committed to the principle of freedom of religion. In these circumstances ...25 KB (3,609 words) - 07:57, 20 September 2023
- and in the United States, it became the religion of many slaves. Methodism ... day who felt alienated from the formal religion of much of the Church of ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union ... whole of Africa. The headquarters of the African Union and the United Nations ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- buried in a large dome-roofed tomb. The religion of the kingdom involved ... Sudan,” pp. 66-87, in P.L. Shinnie, The African Iron Age. Oxford, UK: Clarendon ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- large Asian and Hispanic populations. African immigrants have many strongholds ... in the United States and high numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, and ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... As African Americans' place in American society has changed over ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- as a fervent believer in the monotheistic religion of Zoroaster. He was also ... ==European and North African campaigns== About 512 B.C.E. Darius undertook ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who ... of the poor educational prospects for African South Africans. He continued ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- it to Vajrayana Buddhism and the Bön religion. Though Chöd is not ancestor ... and Tibet. (ondon: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1992. ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- celebrations also appear in some Asian and African cultures such as Korea. ... dead, and elaborate rituals developed in African, Carribbean, and Meso-American ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Bridgetown is a blend of British and West African influences. Religion plays ... Beginning in the 1620s, an increasing number of African slaves were ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- C. L. Franklin, was a highly influential African-American Baptist preacher ... quot; and deep breathing, which in African-American church tradition ...13 KB (1,984 words) - 19:15, 24 November 2023
- a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the nineteenth ... of freedom, and figures prominently in African-American history. It was ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- * Center on Religion, Culture, and Conflict[http://depts.drew.edu/crcc/ ... (includes psychobiology), Pan-African Studies, Philosophy, Physics ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- --> Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, a religion ... by the actions of the Samaritan, not the religion and ethnicity of the other ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- (1414), the Muslim port, on the North African coast across the Straits ... Master of the Military Order of Christ, religion was very important to Henry ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- Abuja International Conference Centre African Hall, Gurara Falls, Eagle ... the Savannah Zone vegetation of the West African sub-region. Patches of rainforest ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- traders, mostly from Glasgow, formed the African Lakes Company to supply ... A growing European and U.S.-educated African elite became increasingly ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- It is a principal symbol of the Christian religion, primarily used in the Catholic ... for using burning crosses to terrorize African-Americans. As a result of ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
