Robert M Baum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89077 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert M Baum |
| NOMBRES | Robert M |
| APELLIDO | Baum |
| FIRMA | BAUM R M |
| AFILIACIONES | Iowa State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
West African Women of God
This article, by the author of West Africa's Women of God, responds to five commentaries on my book. It raises issues about prophetic movements in West Africa, the role of women prophets, Diola religious history, and future research projects on Diola prophetic movements. Of central concern is Alinesitoué Diatta and her place within an ongoing tradition of women prophets of the supreme being. This tradition emerged from an older tradition of male …
Wrestlers on the Awasena Path
The existing literature on religion and sport focuses on the ways that sporting events take on many aspects of religious events, fostering a sense of community and reinforcing a sense of opposition to external groups. This article focuses on a different aspect, the use of ritual to reduce the uncertainties of athletic competition in wrestling matches and its role in socializing boys and girls into the religious obligations that they will assume a…
From a Boy Not Seeking a Wife to a Man Discussing Prophetic Women
In this article I reflect on thirty-years of conducting field research in the Diola communities of southwestern Senegal. Initially this work was a community religious and historical study, but it gradually shifted to a focus on the history of Diola prophetism, most notably women prophets in the twentieth century. During that time, I shifted from an unmarried youth of twenty-two to a middle-aged married man. This article examines the continual int…
Religion/S Between Covers
Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves
Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900. By Walter Hawthorne. Portsmouth, N. H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xvi, 259, illustrations. $24.95 paper. In Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves, Walter Hawthorne examines the social and economic effects of the Atlantic trade system on the coastal communities of Guinea-Bissau, with special attention to the Balanta ethnic group. He begins with a macro analysis…
Crimes of the Dream World
As European powers completed the colonization of the African continent, they faced the difficult task of creating an administrative and judicial structure to control the diverse population of their domains. Questions about the role of indigenous authorities and customary law in colonial system confronted Europeans at the very moment when they were gaining their first extended glimpses into the working of African political systems. In West Africa,…
African Spirituality
La Tijaniyya
The Ethics of Religious Studies Research in the Context of the Religious Intolerance of the State
THE ETHICS OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE OF THE STATE: AN AFRICANIST PERSPECTIVE' ROBERT M. BAUM This paper has evolved from four sources; in reverse chronological order, they are: (i) Several papers presented in a panel of the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), in 1999, which focused on the state of the history of religions in Germany. In particular, Hubert Seiwert's paper "R…
Une introduction a un voyage en Casamance
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
African Apocalypse
Encountering Esulalu
The oral traditions that provide the core of evidence for this study of Diola history were gathered during seven periods of field research between 1974 and 1997. They represent the received traditions about the precolonial era as reflected upon by people who had recently become a part of an independent Senegal and who were enduring frequent droughts and an increasingly difficult integration into the world economy. They are reflections about Diola…
Conclusion
In this study I have sketched the broad outlines of the religious and social history of the Diola-Esulalu, beginning with the gradual joining together of distinct Koonjaen and Floup traditions and concluding with an examination of Diola traditions on the eve of the establishment of colonial rule and a permanent missionary presence. Written sources, primarily from travelers, traders, colonial administrators, and missionaries, provided useful descr…
Dedication
The Elaboration of Tradition
While the nineteenth century was a period of increasing interaction with the French and with other African groups, the people of Esulalu preferred to contact these newcomers at Carabane or the stranger villages, rather than in the townships. They were suspicious of French and Muslim Senegambian motives for entering the region and sought to control the influences of their new neighbors. They carefully protected the autonomy of Esulalu community in…
Appendix
Slaves, Trade, and Religious Change in Eighteenth-Century Esulalu
As the people of Esulalu faced the difficult task of integrating Floup and Koonjaen communities and creating a common Diola tradition, they also confronted the disruptive influence of a growing European commercial presence in the region. As early as the midseventeenth century, European willingness to sell such strategic items as muskets, gunpowder, and iron created clear military and economic advantages for those societies willing to engage in tr…
A Note on Translation
Subject Religious Studies African History Social and Cultural Anthropology Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Koonjaen, Floup, and the Forging of a Diola-Esulalu Religious Tradition in the Eighteenth Century
The forging of an Esulalu religious tradition from the older traditions of Koonjaen and Floup began during a period of political, economic, and environmental uncertainty throughout the lower Casamance. This tradition began to take shape after the fall of the Floup state, when ritual elders and the cults they controlled became the major force for the maintenance of the social order. Indirect links to European traders operating in the Casamance reg…
Glossary
Subject Religious Studies African History Social and Cultural Anthropology Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
The Origins of the Diola-Esulalu
Although the retrospective glance of the historian of the longue durée performs a vital role in illuminating the broad continuities of a Diola religious and social system, it has serious limitations in that it assumes a continuity in the ethnic boundaries of the group we know as Diola. Until recently, many researchers made similar assumptions that Africa’s ethnic groupings of the twentieth century served as the primary social divisions for centur…
The Historical Study of African Traditional Religions
Until recently, most studios of African religions have concentrated on various aspects of beliefs and practices while paying little attention to their historical development, When scholars have considered the history of religions in Africa, they have tended to focus on lslam and Christianity and to restrict their interest in African traditional rnligions to the processes of conversion to and syncretism with “world” religions. Current textbooks on…
Strangers within Their Borders
During the first eighty years of the nineteenth century, the French expanded their activities in the Casamance from sporadic trading expeditions to permanent settlements, while gaining formal recognition of French sovereignty over the Diola townships. During this period, however, they did not attempt to establish the type of formal control expressed in taxation, forced labor, and land cessions typical of their activities in northern Senegal or se…
Of Revelation and Revolution, Vol. 2
Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves
Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900. By Walter Hawthorne. Portsmouth, N. H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xvi, 259, illustrations. $24.95 paper. In Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves, Walter Hawthorne examines the social and economic effects of the Atlantic trade system on the coastal communities of Guinea-Bissau, with special attention to the Balanta ethnic group. He begins with a macro analysis…
The emergence of a Diola Christianity
Opening ParagraphAfrican religious history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been dominated by the rapid growth of Islam and Christianity. This has been especially true of the Senegambia region of West Africa, which has witnessed the adoption of Islam by approximately 80 per cent of the region's populace and the development of a small, but influential Christian minority. Among the Diola of the Casamance region of Senegal, Islam and Ch…
La Tijaniyya
African Apocalypse
Religion, Identity, and Slavery in the Casamance
From a Boy Not Seeking a Wife to a Man Discussing Prophetic Women
In this article I reflect on thirty-years of conducting field research in the Diola communities of southwestern Senegal. Initially this work was a community religious and historical study, but it gradually shifted to a focus on the history of Diola prophetism, most notably women prophets in the twentieth century. During that time, I shifted from an unmarried youth of twenty-two to a middle-aged married man. This article examines the continual int…
Crimes of the Dream World
As European powers completed the colonization of the African continent, they faced the difficult task of creating an administrative and judicial structure to control the diverse population of their domains. Questions about the role of indigenous authorities and customary law in colonial system confronted Europeans at the very moment when they were gaining their first extended glimpses into the working of African political systems. In West Africa,…
Savage Systems
Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa. DAVID CHIDESTER. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xviii + 324 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations
Shrines, Medicines, and the Strength of the Head
The history of warfare has long be associated with a variety of religious practices designed to lessen the likelihood of death and enhance the possibility of victory. Warriors enter a world where the expectation of a normal life span is challenged by the death of comrades and where martial skill cannot ensure survival. This paper examines the way in which the Diola of Senegambia used religious practices and ideas to lessen the uncertainty of war …
The Ethics of Religious Studies Research in the Context of the Religious Intolerance of the State
THE ETHICS OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE OF THE STATE: AN AFRICANIST PERSPECTIVE' ROBERT M. BAUM This paper has evolved from four sources; in reverse chronological order, they are: (i) Several papers presented in a panel of the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), in 1999, which focused on the state of the history of religions in Germany. In particular, Hubert Seiwert's paper "R…
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
Graven images
(1990). Graven images: Scholarly representations of African religions. Religion: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 355-360
A Cultural, Economic, and Religious History of the Basse Casamance since 1500
The End of Slavery in Africa
Reflections of a Sorceror's ApprenticeIn Sorcery's Shadow
Graven images
(1990). Graven images: Scholarly representations of African religions. Religion: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 355-360
The emergence of a Diola Christianity
Opening ParagraphAfrican religious history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been dominated by the rapid growth of Islam and Christianity. This has been especially true of the Senegambia region of West Africa, which has witnessed the adoption of Islam by approximately 80 per cent of the region's populace and the development of a small, but influential Christian minority. Among the Diola of the Casamance region of Senegal, Islam and Ch…
The Python Killer
Discourse and Its Disguises
Essai sur la Religion Bambara
The Hatchet's Blood
The ritual complexes of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal, embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained in Ehing culture by the concept of Odieng (hatchet), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc Schloss's ethnography of the …
The Enigma of Colonialism
Of Revelation and Revolution
Shrines, Medicines, and the Strength of the Head
The history of warfare has long be associated with a variety of religious practices designed to lessen the likelihood of death and enhance the possibility of victory. Warriors enter a world where the expectation of a normal life span is challenged by the death of comrades and where martial skill cannot ensure survival. This paper examines the way in which the Diola of Senegambia used religious practices and ideas to lessen the uncertainty of war …
Imperial Sudan
Power, Prayer and Production
Religion in Africa
Brings together the views of some of the most distinguished academics in the context of African history, anthropology, politics, comparative religion, health and healing, languages and literatures, and the visual and performing arts. It is based on solid archival and field research in Africa and the African diaspora. Published in association with The David M. Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University. North America: Heinemann
Les Missionnaires a la Rencontre de l'Afrique au XIXe Siecle (Cote des Esclaves et Pays Yoruba, 1840-1891)
Savage Systems
Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa. DAVID CHIDESTER. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xviii + 324 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations
Encountering Esulalu
The oral traditions that provide the core of evidence for this study of Diola history were gathered during seven periods of field research between 1974 and 1997. They represent the received traditions about the precolonial era as reflected upon by people who had recently become a part of an independent Senegal and who were enduring frequent droughts and an increasingly difficult integration into the world economy. They are reflections about Diola…
Conclusion
In this study I have sketched the broad outlines of the religious and social history of the Diola-Esulalu, beginning with the gradual joining together of distinct Koonjaen and Floup traditions and concluding with an examination of Diola traditions on the eve of the establishment of colonial rule and a permanent missionary presence. Written sources, primarily from travelers, traders, colonial administrators, and missionaries, provided useful descr…
Dedication
The Elaboration of Tradition
While the nineteenth century was a period of increasing interaction with the French and with other African groups, the people of Esulalu preferred to contact these newcomers at Carabane or the stranger villages, rather than in the townships. They were suspicious of French and Muslim Senegambian motives for entering the region and sought to control the influences of their new neighbors. They carefully protected the autonomy of Esulalu community in…
Appendix
Slaves, Trade, and Religious Change in Eighteenth-Century Esulalu
As the people of Esulalu faced the difficult task of integrating Floup and Koonjaen communities and creating a common Diola tradition, they also confronted the disruptive influence of a growing European commercial presence in the region. As early as the midseventeenth century, European willingness to sell such strategic items as muskets, gunpowder, and iron created clear military and economic advantages for those societies willing to engage in tr…
A Note on Translation
Subject Religious Studies African History Social and Cultural Anthropology Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Koonjaen, Floup, and the Forging of a Diola-Esulalu Religious Tradition in the Eighteenth Century
The forging of an Esulalu religious tradition from the older traditions of Koonjaen and Floup began during a period of political, economic, and environmental uncertainty throughout the lower Casamance. This tradition began to take shape after the fall of the Floup state, when ritual elders and the cults they controlled became the major force for the maintenance of the social order. Indirect links to European traders operating in the Casamance reg…
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