Divinity and Experience
According to the Dinka people of the Southern Sudan, man and his creator were originally close together. They became separated, like the earth and sky, when the first man and woman acted with human independence. Dinka religious practice follows from that separation. ""Divinity and Experience"", now reissued for the first time in paperback, has, since its first publication in 1961, acquired the status of a minor classic of social anthropology. In the first section, the various divinities of the …
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According to the Dinka people of the Southern Sudan, man and his creator were originally close together. They became separated, like the earth and sky, when the first man and woman acted with human independence. Dinka religious practice follows from that separation. ""Divinity and Experience"", now reissued for the first time in paperback, has, since its first publication in 1961, acquired the status of a minor classic of social anthropology. In the first section, the various divinities of the Dinka are described with their complex range of meaning and imagery, and related to the Dinka's own e.
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- Publication Date:1987.
- Edition:New edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1987.
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- Description:1 online resource (340 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198234050, 0198234058
- oclc:on1027141921
- LC Classification:BL2480.D5
- Dewey Decimal:299.683
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