July 13, 2017
Sacrifice to the Nile River
Subsistence farmers on the African countryside depend on the erratic rains for their harvest and well-being. What is the role of traditional religion, rainmaking and sacrifice when the rain fails?
EDIT: Johan Sävström
The library suggests
Dammed divinities : the water powers at Bujagali Falls, Uganda / Terje Østigård, (2014)
Religion at work in globalized traditions : rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity in Tanzania / Terje Østigård, (2014)
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