TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baum,Robert M.
TI  - West Africa's women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola prophetic tradition 
SN  - 9780253017673 (cloth)
AV  - BL2480.D53 BAU B383 2016
U1  - BL2480.D53 BAU 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Bloomington and Indianapolis
PB  - Indiana university Press
KW  - Diatta, Aline Sitoe.
KW  - Diola (African people)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Women prophets
KW  - Senegal
KW  - Prophecy
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prophets, gender, and religious change among the Diola of Senegambia --; The Diola: an ethnographic introduction --; Koonjaen, Felupe, and Diola prophets in precolonial Senegambia --; Women prophets, colonization, and the creation of community shrines of Emitai, 1890-1913 --; Prophetism at the peak of colonial rule, 1914-1939 --; Alinesitoué Diatta and the crisis of the war years, 1939-1944 --; The prophetic teachings of Alinesitoué, her successors, and a contested Diola prophetic tradition
ER  -