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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: African religion defined
    sub title: a systematic study of ancestor worship among the Akan
  name:
    name part: Ephirim-Donkor, Anthony
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: Third edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 255 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: This edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship with the addition of three new chapters. The book serves as an invaluable resource for those interested in African religion and symbolic representation and praxis of ancestor worship. The study examines Akan conception of God, the abosom, religious symbols and annual festivities.
  table of contents: 1. Akan theology -- 2. The Abosom -- 3. Cosmology -- 4. Ancestor worship -- 5. Annual festivals -- 6. Ancestors' stool -- 7. Becoming a living ancestor -- 8. Witchcraft -- 9. Sacrifices.
  note: Anthony Ephirim-Donkor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-250) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-gh---
    geographic code: f-iv---
  subject:
    topic: Akan (African people)
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Ancestor worship
    geographic: Ghana
  subject:
    topic: Ancestor worship
    geographic: Côte d'Ivoire
  subject:
    geographic: Ghana
    topic: Religious life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Côte d'Ivoire
    topic: Religious life and customs
  classification: BL467 .E74 2017
  classification: 305.896/3385
  identifier: 0761868445
  identifier: 9780761868446
  identifier: 9780761868453
  identifier: 2016950988
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160919
    record change date: 20211214094602.0
    record identifier: in00003733777