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The article presents abstracts on topics about Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities which include the an ethnographic account of the Angolan Tokoist church, the African theology of reconstruction, and the tensions between the local and universal spheres of the Catholic Church.

The introduction to this second special issue aims to probe the epistemological conditions of possibility of African Americanist anthropology. In particular, it highlights the problematic of definitions of units of analysis in the comparative logic on which this particular field of inquiry has long been based. Given the conceptual instability of the categories 'Africa' and 'America' discussed in the previous number of this special double issue, attention is given to how scholars variously became implicated in the creation of 'African horizons', and to potential ways in which past approaches might not only be opened up to 'symmetrical analyses', but in fact transcended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of African studies on social sciences and humanities. They include "A Parallel Mode of Being: The Sanusiyyah and Intellectual Subversion in Cape Town, 1800-1840," "Religious Rights and the Corporate World in Nigeria: Products and Personnel Perspectives" and "Re-Encountering African Culture in Living Christianity in My Father's Home."

The article presents abstracts of studies related to social sciences and the humanities in Africa. They include "Ghanaian Christianity and Popular Entertainment," by John Collins, "Prosperity Gospel in Nigerian Context: A Medium of Social Transformation or an Impetus for Delusion?" by Adekunle Oyinloye Dada, and "Atonement and Violence in Popular African Christianity," by Abamfo Atiemo.

Presents several abstracts on African social studies and humanities. "Mam Diarra Bouso la bonne mère de Porokhane, Sénégal"; "New Information & Communication Technology Use by Muslim Mourides in Senegal"; "Women's Leadership Roles in the Early Protestant Church in Uganda: Continuity With the Old Order."

Introduces a series of articles and studies presented during a seminar that was held in September 2004 at Roskilde University in Denmark which focused on the role of religion in organizing and institutionalizing power in Africa.

Presents abstracts of various articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities. "The Quest of African Identity," by Simon Kofi Appiah; "Zetaheal Mission in Ghana: Christians and Muslims Worshipping Together?," by Abamfo Atiemo; "A Theological Journey," by Laurenti Magesa; "Conversion to Islam: Military Recruitment and Generational Conflict in a Sereer-Safen Village (Bandia), 1920-38," by James F. Searing; "Religious Revival in the Roman Catholic Church and the Autochthony-Allochthony Conflict in Cameroon," by Piet Konings.