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Author MacGaffey, Wyatt.

Title Modern Kongo prophets : religion in a plural society / Wyatt MacGaffey
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1983]
©1983

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Description xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series African systems of thought
African systems of thought.
Contents Part one: Historical ethnography -- Prophet movements -- Churches in modern Kongo -- Part two: Plural society -- Plural context -- Success and failure -- Part three: Kongo perspectives -- Cosmology and religious commissions -- Healing -- Sequence of international responses -- Prophetic vision
Notes Chiefly English, some Kongo language
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [270]-278
Subject Prophets -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
SUBJECT Congo (Democratic Republic) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061022 -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663
LC no. 82048554
ISBN 0253203074
0253338654