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Title: | Dreams of Power: Social Process in a West African Religious Movement |
Author: | Curley, Richard T. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 53 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 20-38 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | dreams African Independent Churches Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159974 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1983-053-00-000017 |
Abstract: | Describes the ways in which dreams are regarded by the members of a West African religious sect (the True Church of God) and explains how dreams figure in the social organization of the sect. Point of departure is the consideration that dream narrations arise as much out the social organization of the sect as from the psyche of the individuals. The narrations are public performances and are evaluated by members of the sect for the purpose of situating each other within the community of church members. First the author considers some of the ways in which dreams have been treated in anthropology and in the study of African religious movements. The present study is based on a first hand acquaintance with two small branches of the sect located in Southwest Province of the Republic of Cameroon. Notes, ref., tab., French sum. |