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Spiritual landscape in Southern Africa. Mutual influence of contemporary shamanism and New Age in the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Zambia andBostwana.

2017/25/N/HS1/02500

Keywords:

sangoma shamanism religion esotericism spirituality rleigion RSA Namibia Zambia Botswana

Descriptors:

  • HS1_10: Religion and its background: anthropological, cultural, social and psychological
  • HS1_12: World religions
  • HS1_2: Ontology and metaphysics, particular ontologies

Panel:

HS1 - Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Orientalistyczny

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Agnieszka Podolecka 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 13 - announced on 2017-03-15

Amount awarded: 175 556 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-01-12

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-12-11

Project duration:: 47 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  1. Ultrabook z oprogramowaniem (5 000 PLN)

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  1. Esotericism in Botswana: Shamanism, Ancestral Reverence and New Age
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Podolecka, Leslie Nthoi
    Academic press:
    ARIES Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism (rok: 2022, tom: Volume: 2s no 2, strony: 45318), Wydawca: Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1163/15700593-20211008 - link to the publication
  2. The intersection of Indigenous African beliefs within Prophetic and Pentecostal African Christianity: a case-study of the Owambo in Namibia
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Podolecka, Peter White
    Academic press:
    Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (rok: 2021, tom: Issue 171/2021, strony: 65-79), Wydawca: University of KwaZulu-Natal
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  3. Spiritual healers in the Basotho society: An overview of traditional" beliefs in the Christianised Lesotho
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Podolecka
    Academic press:
    Studies in African Languages and Cultures (rok: 2021, tom: Volume: 55, strony: 159-184), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Warszawski
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.32690/SALC55.7 - link to the publication
  4. Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa - Sangoma, African Sage, Freud or a New Age Shaman
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Podolecka
    Academic press:
    Studies in African Languages and Cultures (rok: 2018, tom: 52, strony: 131-153), Wydawca: University of Warsaw
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  5. UNkulunkulu: God, a god or the first ancestor? The quest for a supreme deity in Zulu religious beliefs
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Podolecka
    Academic press:
    Yearbook or Oriental Studies (rok: 2020, tom: LXXIII, strony: 12), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Warszawski
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.24425/ro.2019.129437 - link to the publication
  6. Ng'anga – Zambian healers-diviners and their relationship with Pentecostal Christianity. The intermingling of pre-Christian beliefs and Christianity
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Podolecka, Austin Cheyeka
    Academic press:
    Journal for the Study of Religion (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 34 (2), strony: 45318), Wydawca: University of South Africa
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.17159/2413-3027/2021/v34n2a7 - link to the publication
  7. Zulu creation myths by Credo Mutwa – ancient tradition or Mutwa's invention?
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Podolecka
    Academic press:
    Journal of Religion in Africa (rok: 2022, tom: 51/2021, strony: 45314), Wydawca: Brill
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    10.1163/15700666-12340202 - link to the publication

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