The Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, published by SAGE Publications in 2009, is a scholarly reference work with nearly five hundred entries surveying African traditional religions people by people, including its own article on Bamana religion naming Maa Ngala as the Bamana supreme being. Its authority rests on standard academic reference-work peer review and the editors' specialist standing in African and African diaspora studies. As a broad reference spanning hundreds of distinct peoples and traditions, any one entry is necessarily a survey rather than an exhaustive specialist study, so a claim needing deep detail on one specific tradition benefits from a dedicated source on that tradition.
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Tier one: a scholarly reference work from SAGE Publications with nearly five hundred entries, resting on standard academic reference peer review and the editors' specialist standing in African and African diaspora studies. Its limit is the ordinary one for a broad reference spanning hundreds of distinct peoples and traditions: any one entry is a survey rather than an exhaustive specialist study. NotesNearly 500 entries surveying African traditional religions people by people; its own Bamana article names Maa Ngala as the Bamana supreme being.
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AuthorMolefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, editors
PublisherSAGE Publications
Publication Year2009
Source Typeencyclopedia
Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)
This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Deities, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Religions, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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