MDS 299.6
Wording: Religion Other religions Religions not provided for elsewhere Of African Origin
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0 Computer science, information & general works 252,013 ℹ️ | 1 Philosophy and Psychology 270,129 🧠 | 2 Religion 681,242 🙏 | 3 Social sciences 1,328,382 👫 | 4 Language 209,883 💬 | 5 Natural sciences & mathematics 431,918 🔬 | 6 Technology 940,635 💡 | 7 Arts & recreation 1,031,850 🎨 | 8 Literature & rhetoric 1,436,736 📚 | 9 History & geography 837,760 🗺️ |
20 Religion 34,718 🙏 | 21 Philosophy & theory of religion 9,457 💭 | 22 The Bible 120,706 📖 | 23 Christianity 92,094 ✝️ | 24 Christian practice & observance 115,742 📿 | 25 Christian pastoral practice & religious orders 39,501 🐑 | 26 Christian organization, social work & worship 89,849 ⛪ | 27 History of Christianity 37,183 🔙 | 28 Christian denominations 53,214 ☦ | 29 Other religions 88,778 🛐 |
290 Other religions 1,512 👓 | 291 [Formerly: General Religious Topics] 15,630 | 292 Classical religion (Greek and Roman religion) 2,743 🔱 | 293 Germanic religion 752 🎄 | 294 Religions of Indic origin 23,339 ☸ | 295 Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism, Parseeism) 479 🔥 | 296 Judaism 18,701 ✡️ | 297 Islam, Babism, Bahai Faith 13,289 ☪️ | 298 [Formerly; Unitarian, Universalism, and Mormonism] 209 | 299 Religions not provided for elsewhere 12,124 🌐 |
299.0 9 | 299.1 Indo-European 812 ☸️ | 299.2 Sumer, Assyria, Mesopotamia 235 🌾 | 299.3 Of North African Origin 768 🏜️ | 299.4 Of Eurasian Origin 109 🦅 | 299.5 Of Asian Origin 1,871 🐅 | 299.6 Of African Origin 971 🦁 | 299.7 Of North American Origin 1,288 🍁 | 299.8 Of South American Origin 223 🐆 | 299.9 Religions of other origin 4,743 |
299.60 59 | 299.61 [Mythologies] 12 | 299.62 Mythologies 24 | 299.63 Theological Conceptions and Doctrines 30 | 299.64 Religious Experience, Life, Ritual 29 | 299.65 Other Religious Practice 13 | 299.66 | 299.67 By Particular Movement or Cult 253 | 299.68 Of Particular Peoples and Cultures 97 | 299.69 By Particular Region of Africa 34 |
Selected Works under MDS 299.6 (971)
- Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
- Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn by Karen McCarthy Brown
- Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau
- Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren
- Voodoo in Haiti by Alfred Métraux
- Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant
- African Religions & Philosophy by John S. Mbiti
- African Mythology by Geoffrey Parrinder
- Santería: The Religion by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler
- Secrets of Voodoo by Milo Rigaud
- The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett
- The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some
- Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (Compass) by Malidoma Patrice Somé
- The Kebra Negast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica by E. A. Wallis Budge
- The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts by Baba Ifa Karade
- Voodoo and Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners by Jim Haskins
- The Magic Island by William Seabrook
- Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward
- Introduction to African Religion (African Writers Series) by John S. Mbiti
- Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie by Wade Davis
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