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The following is an introductory bibliography of a few selected titles on a range of subjects related to Bantu Religious traditions in both Africa and Africa in the Americas. It is by no means exhaustive, but it is selected with both quality and accuracy in mind.

Barcellos, Mario Cesar. 1998. Jamberesu: As Cantigas de Angola. Rio de Janeiro: Pallas Editora e Distrbuidora Ltda.

Bastos, Abguar. 1979. Os cultos mágico-religiosos no Brasil: xangô, candomblé, pará, macumba, cambinda, umbanda, quimbanda, catimbó, linha de mesa, babaçuê, tambor de mina, pajelança, toré, cabula, os aparatos, os cerimônias, as alfaias, os teitiços. São Paulo: Hucitec.

Beattie, John. 1967. “Divination in Bonyoro, Uganda” in Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing. Middleton, John. Ed. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp 211-231

Bolívar Aróstegui, Natalia. 1998. Ta Makuenda Yaya y las Reglas de Palo Monte Mayombe Brillumba Kimbisa Shamalongo. El Vedado, La Habana: Ediciones Unión: Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba.

Cabrera, Lydia. 1977. La Regla Kimbisa del Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje. Miami: Colección del Chicheriku en el exilio (Peninsular Publishing)
—1979. Reglas de Congo: Palo Monte Mayombe. Miami: Colección del Chicheriku en el exilio (Peninsular Publishing)
—1984. Vocabulario Congo (El bantu que se Habla en Cuba). Miami: Colección del Chicheriku en el exilio (Peninsular Publishing)
—1992. El Monte (Igbo -Finda; Ewe Orisha. Vititi Nfinda) (Notas sobre las religiones, la magia, las supersticones y el folklore de los negros criollos y el pueblo de Cuba). Miami: Edicones Universal

LaGama, Alisa. 2000. Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Lewis, Maureen Warner. 1977. The Nkuyu: spirit messengers of the Kumina. Mona: Savacou Publications.

Lopes, Nei. 1995. Dicionário Banto do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural José Bonifácio.

Ne Muanda Nsemi, 1994. B.D.K., Bundu Dia Kongo. Kinshasha: L'union de Ntimansi Kinshasha: Editions Mpolo Ngimbi.

MacGaffey, Wyatt. 1993. Astonishment and Power: The Eyes of Understanding : Kongo Minkisi : Resonance, Transformation, and Rhyme : The Art of Renee Stout. Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art.



 
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— 1986. Religion and Society in Central Africa: The Bakongo of Lower Zaire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Thompson, Robert F. 1983. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. New York: Random House.

— 1993. Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas. New York: The Museum for African Art.

Thornton, John. 1998. The Kongolese Saint Anthony : Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press.

—1992. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press.

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