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. |