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Exceptional Healing: Gender, Materiality, Embodiment, and Prophetism in the Lower Congo
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Yolanda Covington-Ward, 2021. "Exceptional Healing: Gender, Materiality, Embodiment, and Prophetism in the Lower Congo", Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Jeanette S. Jouili
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