"Africa, Land of ancestors"
Cover of the special issue of the magazine "Mythology": "Africa, land of the ancestors".
© Mythology magazine
By: Geneviève Delrue
1 min
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World Religions - Sunday February 14, 2021 - 10: 10-11 a.m. Paris Time
Mythologie Magazine
devotes a special issue to traditional African religions.
Creator God, divinities, myths, cults, rites, divinatory objects, tales and stories, sacred animals: at the center of these multiple magico-religious worlds:
the ancestors.
With
Bertrand Audouy
, editor-in-chief of Mythologie Magazine;
Pierre Diarra
, originally from Mali, doctor in History of religions and religious anthropology;
Pierre de Maret,
specialist in Central Africa and the Bantu world, professor emeritus of Archeology and Anthropology at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and member of the Royal Academy of Belgium;
Paulette Roulon-Doko,
linguist and ethnologist, research director at CNRS, specialist in Gbayas' Bodoe (Central African Republic);
Bertrand Sajaloli
, Associate of Geography, lecturer at the University of Orléans, his work focuses on the links between ecology, religions, development and literature.
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