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FT-53796-05	Research Programs: Summer Stipends	Robert M. Baum	Messengers of God: Alinesitoue and the History of a Diola Prophetic Tradition in West Africa	5/1/2005 - 8/31/2005	$5,000.00	Robert	M.	Baum				Iowa State University of Science and Technology	Ames	IA	50011-2000	USA	2005	History of Religion	Summer Stipends	Research Programs	5000	0	5000	0	I will conduct one month of field research and the remaining two months completing a book manuscript on the history of an indigenous West African tradition of prophetic revelation from the Diola supreme being. Initially an all-male phenomena, it has become, since the French conquest of Senegal, a predominantly female prophetic tradition with over fifty different people claiming to be prophets.