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• Abiodun, Rowland. "Verbal and Visual Metaphors: Mythical Allusions in Yoruba Ritualistic Art at Ori." Word and Image (London) 3, no. 3 (1987): pp. 252-70.
• African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
• Andrews, Carol. Amulets of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1994.
• Andrews, Carol. Egyptian Mummies. London: British Museum Press, 1984.
• Apter, Andrew Herman. Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• L’arche éthiopienne: art chrétien d’éthiopie: 27 septembre 2000-7 janvier 2001, Pavillon des arts. Paris: Paris musées; Girona: Fundació Caixa de Girona, 2000.
• Bacot, Seÿna. "Un calendrier liturgique d'Edfou sur ostracon (O. EdfouCopte 1)," in Etudes coptes X Douzième journée d'études (Lyon, 19021 mai 2005) edited by Anne Boud'hors and Catherine Louis, pp. 91-102. Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte 16. Paris: De Boccard, 2008.
• Bidima, Yamba. "Art statuaire et magie au Burkina Faso: le cas de Lobe." Cahiers ethnologiques (Bordeaux) 20, no. 14 (1992): pp. 86-112.
• Boavida, Isabel. "The Cross Brought to Goa and Portugal by Libnä Dingil's Envoy Mathew," in The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26-30 November 1999) edited by Manuel João Ramos and Isabel Boadvida, pp. 146-151. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. [Reviewed by Peri Klemm in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 162-163.]
• Bognolo, Daniela. "Les taári du bãbá." Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 84 (Winter 1992): pp. 9-17.
• Brain, Robert. "Art and Religion," in Art and Society in Africa, pp. 185-204. London: Longman, 1980.
• Bravmann, René A. and Raymond A. Silverman. "Painted Incantations: The Closeness of Allah and Kings in 19th-Century Asante," in The Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante Center and Periphery edited by Enid Schildkrout, pp. 93-108. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 65, part 1. Washington, DC: American Museum of Natural History, 1987.
• Brown, David H. "Thrones of the Orichas: Afro-Cuban Altars in New Jersey, New York, and Havana." African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 4 (October 1993): pp. 44-59, 85-7.
• Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodun Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. [Reviewed by John P. Homiak, African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 24, 26-8, 30, 86.
• Capron, J. "Quelques notes sur la société du do chez les populations B^wa du cercle de San." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 27, no. 1 (1957): pp. 81-129.
• Chojnacki, Stanislaw.  Ethiopian Icons: Catalogue of the Collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.  Milan: Skira, 2000.
• Chojnacki, Stanislaw. "Ethiopian Warrior Saints in 18th-Century Miniatures and Their Significance in the Cultural History of Ethiopia," in The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26-30 November 1999) edited by Manuel João Ramos and Isabel Boadvida, pp. 73-82. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. [Reviewed by Peri Klemm in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 162-163.]
• Chojnacki, Stanislaw.  Major Themes in Ethiopian Painting: Indigenous Developments, The Influence of Foreign Models and Their Adaptation from the 13th to the 19th Century.  Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1983.
• Chojnacki, Stanislaw. "The Theme of the Bitter Water in Ethiopian Painting," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 53-67. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Christian Imagery in African Art: The Britt Family Collection. Notre Dame, IN: The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 1980.
• Cooksey, Susan Elizabeth. Iron Staffs in the Crossroads: Art and Divination in Toussiana, a Southwestern Burkina Faso Community. Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2004.
• Drewal, Henry John. "Performing the Other: Mami Wata Worship in Africa." TDR: The Drama Review 32, no. 2 (Summer 1988): pp. 160-185.
• Drewal, Margaret Thompson. "Art and Trance among Yoruba Shango Devotees." African Arts 20, no. 1 (1986): pp. 60-7.
• Drewal, Margaret Thompson. "Embodied Practice/Embodied History: Mastery of Metaphor in the Performances of Diviner Kolawole Ositola," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 171-190. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
• Drewal, Margaret Thompson. "Projections from the Top in Yoruba Art." African Arts 11, no. 1 (Oct. 1977): pp. 43-49, 91-92.
• Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, 2001.
• Ethiopie millénaire: préhistoire et art religieux: Petit Palais, décembre 1974-février 1975. Paris: Association française d’action artistique, 1974.
• Famule, Olawole Francis. Art and Spirituality: The Ijumu Northeastern-Yoruba Egungun. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 2005.
• Fernandez, James W. "The Body in Bwiti: Variations on a Theme by Richard P. Werbner." Journal of Religion in Africa (Leiden) 20, no. 1 (1990): pp. 92-111.
• Fromont, Cécile. The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
• Gakuzi, Adelin. "Les arbres et les objets sacrés." Que vous en semble? (Bujumbura) 67 (1987): pp. 1-12.
• Galembo, Phyllis. Voudou: Visions and Voices of Haiti. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005
• Gore, Charles. Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City. International African Library Monograph Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2007. [Reviewed online by Joseph Nevadomsky on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=149541207929243.]
• Gwembe, Ezequiel Pedro. A arte negro-africana: uma antropologia religiosa. Colecção Inculturação 1. Maputo: E. P. Africa, 1989.
• Hackett, Rosalind I. J. "African Art as Interface for Religious Change," in Religions in Contact: Selected Proceedings of the Special IAHR Conference Held in Brno, August 23-26, 1994 edited by Iva Dolezalova, pp. 97-109. Brno: Czeck Society for the Study of Religions, 1996.
• Hackett, Rosalind I. J. Art and Religion in Africa. London: Cassell, 1996.
• Hammer, D.S. and J.S. Hammer "The Master of the Owu Shango Shrine." African Arts 19, no. 2 (1986): pp. 70-2.
• Hartzler, Eva Coates. Missions and African Art: A Study of African Arts and Crafts and Their Use in Mission Work. MA Thesis, Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1945.
• Hecht, Elisabeth-Dorothea. "The Hand-Cross Collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies: A Project Report," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 115-120. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Juel-Jensen, Bent. "The Evolution of the Ethiopian Cross," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 17-27. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Junker, Kristine. Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014.
• Kaïteris,Constantin.  Rouleaux magiques éthiopiens – I. Déroulement de l’ange.  Apt: L’Archange Minotaure, 2006.
• Kaïteris,Constantin.  Rouleaux magiques éthiopiens – II.  Enchantement du demon.  Apt: L’Archange Minotaure, 2006.
• Kramer, Fritz W. The Red Fez: Art and Spirit Possession in Africa. London: Verso, 1993.
• Kramer, Fritz W. Der rote Fes: Über die Besessenheit und Kunst in Afrika. Frankfurt: Athenäum, 1987. [Reviewed by Piotr O. Scholz in Nubica (Cologne) 1-2 (1986-1987): pp. 402-403.]
• Kreamer, Christine Mullen. Shrine Figures of the Moba, Northern Togo. Unpublished paper presented at the 27th annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 25-28, 1984.
• LaGamma, Alisa. Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1999. [Reviewed online by Mary Nooter Roberts on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/459.]
• Lauwe, Paul-Henry de. "Pierres et poteries sacrées du Mandara, Cameroun Nord (Mission Sahara-Cameroun)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7, no. 1 (1937): pp. 53-68.
• Lefranc, Jean-Phillippe. "La christianisation des Berbères Haouara: Ses traces dans le culte des saints et l'usage des sonnailles chez les Touareg actuels," in Histoire et archéologie de l'Afrique du Nord: Spectacles, vie portuaire, religions: Actes du Vème Colloque international réuni dans le cadre du 115e Congrès national des Sociétés savantes (Avignon, 9-13 avril 1990), pp. 255-264. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 1992.
• Lumbala, Kabasele. Symbolique bantu et symbolique chrétienne: Rencontre dans la liturgie. Kinshasa: Editions filles de St. Paul, 1990.
• MacGaffey, Wyatt. "Art and Spirituality," in African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions edited by Jacob K. Olupona, pp. 223-256. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2000.
• Malaquais, Dominique. "Building in the Name of God: Architecture, Resistance, and the Christian Faith in the Bamileke Highlands of Western Cameroon." African Studies Review 42, no. 1 (April 1999): pp. 49-78.
• Malt, Carol Hotchkiss. “Influence of Islam on West African Art.” Arts & the Islamic World 1, no. 1 (Winter 1982-1983): pp. 45-48.
• Mann, Vivian B., ed. Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land. New York: Merrell in Association with The Jewish Museum, 2000.
• Mazrui, Ali A. “Islam and African Art: Stimulus or Stumbling Block?” African Arts 27, no. 1 (Jan. 1994): pp. 50-57.
• Mercier, Jacques. Vierges d’Ethiopie. Montpellier, France: Archange minotaure, 2004.
• Moore, Eine. "Ethiopian Crosses from the 12th to the 16th Century," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 110-114. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Nagy, Rebecca Martin and Achamyeleh Debela. "Adbar and Angel: Evocations of Spiritual Forces in Contemporary Ethiopian Art," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, Addis Ababa, 5-8 November 2002 edited by Birhanu Teferra and Richard Pankhurst, pp. 264-278. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2003.
• Nasidi, Nadir A. "Some Biographical Notes on Artists of Sacred Sufi Painting in Kano, Nigeria." Journal of West African History 9, no. 2 (Fall 2023): pp. 1-20.
• Nchama, Joaquín Mbana. "Rito de iniciacion al Byere." Cuadernos (Madrid) 4, no. 7 (April 1990): pp. 1-20.
• Ohangbon, M. E. "African Arts and Foreign Religion." Ivie: Nigerian Journal of Arts and Culture 1, no. 2 (1980): pp. 72-78.
• Olupona, Jacob Obafemi Kehinde. African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions. New York: Crossroad, 2000.
• Onyango, Walter. "The role of Art and Design in Religious Worship in the African Context." Christian Educator 7, no. 8 (May 1994): pp. 5-6.
• Ott, Martin. African Theology in Images. Kachere Monograph 12. Blantyre, Malawi: Christian Literature Association in Malawi (CLAIM), 2000.
• Pankhurst, Richard. "Falasa-Christian or Christian-Falasa Art?" in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 42-52. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Pankhurst, Richard. "A Note on the Coming to Gondar of the Painting of the Virgin of Santa Maria Maggiore," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 93-94. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Pankhurst, Rita and Richard Pankhurst. "Ethiopian Figurines from Mugar Monastery in Shawa." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 42-7, 90.
• Pedersen, Kirsten Stoffregen. "Ethiopian Iconography in Jerusalem, 1970-1990," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 141-144. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Podlewski, André Michel. "Notes sur des objets sacrés traditionnels mboum (Adamaoua, Cameroun)." Journal des africanistes (Paris) 48, no. 2 (1978): pp. 102-120.
• Poyner, Robin. "The Arts of Devotion in African Religion," in Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages, pp. 36-38, 45, 47-53. Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2000.
• Pype, Katrien. "Dancing for God or the Devil: Pentecostal Discourse on Popular Dance in Kinshasa." Journal of Religion in Africa (Leiden) 36, no. 3-4 (2006): pp. 296-318.
• Rattray, Robert. Religion and Art in Ashanti. London: Oxford University Press, 1927.
• Reikat, Andrea. Niombo: Der Tote in der Puppe: Begräbnisrituale in Zentralafrica. Ethnologic N. F. 16. Cologne: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1990. [Reviewed by Bernard Gardi in African Art (Los Angeles) 25, no. 3 (July 1992): pp. 34-35; by Claude Savary in Genève-Afrique (Geneva) 29, no. 1 (1991): pp. 96-99; by Eric Lehuard and Raoul Lehuard in Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 77 (Spring 1991): pp. 65-66; by Brigitte Bühler in Tribus (Stuttgart) 41 (1992): pp. 213-214.]
• Religiöse Kunst Äthiopiens/Religious Art of Ethiopia.  Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbehziehungen, 1973.
• Rubin, Arnold. "Problems of Islamic Influence in the Benue Borderland." Unpublished Paper for the Tenth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New York, NY, Nov. 1-4, 1967.
• Salami, Gitti. Ordinarily Extraordinary: Yakurr Priest-Chief's Ritual Performances and the Leboku Festival. Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2005.
• Sansi, Roger. Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazillian Art and Culture in the 20th Century. Remapping Cultural History Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. [Reviewed online by Cynthia M. Canejo on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26433.]
• Savary, Claude. "La divination: Un art du diagnostic," in Afriques magiques by Claude Savary, pp. 25-41. Geneva: Musée d'ethnographie de la ville de Genève, 1992.
• Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand. "Art in Religion - Religion in Art," in Gods, Spirits, Ancestors: African Sculpture from Private German Collections, pp. 27-30. Munich: Panterra, 1992.
• Sieber, Roy. "Some Aspects of Religion and Art in Africa," in African Religions: A Symposium edited by Newell S. Booth, pp. 141-157. New York: Nok Publishers International, 1977.
• Silverman, Raymond A. Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2005.
• Smith, Weldon. "Religion and Art in Africa." African Arts 13, no. 4 (August 1980): pp. 67-71, 88.
• "Symposium-exposition «islamic arts and architectures in west africa»." Journal des africanistes 49, no. 1 (1979): pp. 167-168.
• Thompson, Robert Farris. Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas. New York: Museum for African Art; Munich: Prestel, 1993. [Reviewed by Judith Bettelheim in Art Journal 53, no. 2 (Summer 1994): pp. 99-103.]
• Thompson, Robert Farris and Joseph Cornet. The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981.
• Thompson, Robert Farris. "The Three Warriors: Atlantic Altars of Esu, Ogun, and Osoosi," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 225-239. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
• Wegner, Mary-Ann Pouls. The Cult of Osiris at Abydos: An Archaeological Investigation of the Development of an Ancient Egyptian Sacred Center During he Eighteenth Dynasty. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
• Wendl, Tobias and Daniela Weise. Mami Wata: der Geist der weissen Frau. Videorecording. Gottingen: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, 1988. [Reviewed by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir in African Arts (Los Angeles) 27, no. 1 (Jan. 1994): pp. 80-82.]
• Wilcox, Rosalinde G. “Mami Watas, Miengu, and Mermaids: Water Spirits of Coastal Cameroon,” in Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora edited by Henry John Drewal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
• Williams, Jeri Bernadette. Power and Survival: Form and Function of Bidjogo Shrine Sculpture. MA, UCLA, 1992.
• Zurawski, Bogdan. "Nubia and Ethiopia in the Christian Period: Some Affinities," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 33-41. London: Jed Press, 1993.