OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT: RITUAL, MAGIC AND INITIATION IN THE LIFE OF AN AFRICAN SHAMAN (REVISED)

OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT: RITUAL, MAGIC AND INITIATION IN THE LIFE OF AN AFRICAN SHAMAN (REVISED)Malidoma, whose name means "be friends with the stranger enemy, " was born under the shadow of French colonial rule in Upper Volta, West Africa. When he was four years old, he was taken by a Jesuit priest and imprisoned in a seminary built for training a new generation of "black" Catholic priests. In spite of his isolation from his tribe and his village, Malidoma stubbornly refused to forget where he had come from and who he was. Finally, fifteen

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ISBN-13 : 9781408808139